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iWnn IME for Android™

Character input technology

Multilingual input system developed for Android™.
No. 1 Commercial IME embedded in Android™ devices in Japan.

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No. 1 system
embedded in
Android™ Devices
in Japan

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You can also
integrate with
voice recognition
engines!

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Predictive conversion
for all
44 languages

What is iWnn IME for Android™?

It is a multilingual input system based on the multilingual input engine iWnn which has been optimized for Android™.

A multilingual input engine offered in Input Method Editor (IME) format with an added software keyboard based on high-performance, multilingual input engine iWnn. Widely used by many manufacturers who develop Android™ devices, it is the No. 1 commercial IME embedded in Japanese domestic smartphones.

Product Features

Feature1

Predictive conversion based on situational conditions, such as season, time zone, and time (past/future)!

Smart Predictive Conversion and Easy Operability

Status-Adaptive Predictions

You can have optimal prediction candidates shown according to situational conditions such as Season, Time Zone, and Past/Future.

Comparison screen displaying prediction conversion candidates tailored to the season and time of day, as shown when inputting

Wildcard Prediction

Once you enter only the beginning of a word, this function enables you to narrow the candidates of the predictive conversion from the remaining length of the word.

Using the wildcard prediction feature of iWnn IME, type

UI Ideal for Smartphones

Provides ease-of-use and a comfortable character input environment specialized to the smartphone experience.

Floating Mode

Demonstrating how to freely move and adjust the position and size of the keyboard in iWnn IME's floating mode

Slide to Add Sonant marks,
P-sound marks, and Convert Upper/Lowercase

Slide the key to easily input dakuten, handakuten, and uppercase/lowercase letters

Slide to Switch Character Types

Operation concept for switching character types (hiragana, alphanumeric characters, numbers) via slide operation

50 Tone Keyboard & Array Selection

Hiragana/Katakana Keyboard Layout Switch Settings Screen (Right-aligned, Left-aligned, Standard)

Set Keyboard Type for Different modes

A keyboard type can be set for each Screen Aspect and Input Mode.

Screen for setting keyboard types by input mode (Hiragana, Kana, English, etc.)

Feature 2

Voice input, works with mushroom plug-ins, added keyboard images

Superior Scalability and External Link Functionality

You can switch to audio input keyboard

Voice input keyboard screen. A microphone icon is displayed in the center.

Works with mushroom plug-ins

List menu of input extension plugins compatible with Mushroom apps

Works with other Web dictionary servers to enable you to add predictive conversion candidates

Prediction Candidate Menu that displays prediction candidates by linking with external web dictionaries

Dictionary expansion

Dictionary Extension Menu: Select and download multiple specialized dictionaries

Additional features of the keyboard image

Japanese input keyboard screen with a numeric keypad layout, offering a choice between light blue and pink themes

Feature3

Supports predictive conversion for 44 languages!

Multilingual

  • Japanese
  • Chinese(Simplified)
    [PinYin, Stroke]
  • Chinese(Traditional)
    [Pinyin, Bopomofo, Stroke, Cangjie]
  • Cantonese(Traditional)
    [Stroke, Cangjie]
  • Korean
  • English(American)
  • English(British)
  • Afrikaans
  • Arabic
  • Italian
  • Indonesian
  • Ukrainian
  • Estonian
  • Dutch
  • Catalan
  • Greek
  • Croatian
  • Swedish
  • Spanish(Spain)
  • Spanish(Mexico)
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Serbian
  • Thai
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • German
  • Turkish
  • Norwegian
  • Hungarian
  • Finnish
  • French(Quebec)
  • French(France)
  • Bulgarian
  • Vietnamese
  • Hebrew
  • Polish
  • Portuguese(Brazil)
    [New Orthography Reform supported]
  • Portuguese(Portugal)
    [New Orthography Reform supported]
  • Malay
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Romanian
  • Russian

Examples (Embedded devices)

Widely used by many manufacturers who develop Android™ devices, the No. 1 commercial IME embedded in Japanese domestic smartphones. Below are some examples of devices embedded with iWnn IME for Android™.

Smartphones and tablets

  • Kyocera
    Corporation
  • Sharp
  • Sony Ericsson
  • Panasonic Mobile Communications
  • HTC
  • LG
  • Samsung
  • ZTE
  • Huawei
  • Motorola
  • Lenovo

*This product is not necessarily embedded in all the products.
*In no particular order.

Embedded Wnn Series list

  Single
clause
conversion		 Consecutive
clause
conversion		 Dictionary
lookup		 Word
registration		 Learning Prediction
conversion		 Morphological
analysis		 Multi
lingual		 Unicode
support		 External
data
partnerships
improved 		Storage
dictionary
features
iWnn IME for Android  
iWnn
compact Wnn    
Advanced Wnn v2        
Multilingual Advanced Wnn        
Mobile Wnn v2            
Mini Wnn                    
  • Predictive conversion：Provides an API that predicts using 1 API, and supports conversion of consecutive clauses and single paragraphs.(Integrated to this API.)
  • PStorage dictionary function：You can select to enable or disable this feature in the compile options.