[OSK] Chinese users have to scroll word ribbon to find correct character

Mike - is this still an issue? I would have thought option 1) is the desirable one, but wondering how this is handled on other platforms. Have you seen 2) elsewhere?

Hi Jouni - We've greatly improved our pinyin predictions and ordering since this bug was first filed, however other platforms do also implement option 2. e.g. on android there's a drop down arrow at the right of the word ribbon, which then displays a grid of characters over the keyboard area (see attached screenshots for an example).

Thanks Michael.

Yes makes sense to use the whole keyboard area for the suggestions like this.

Can we add a similar dropdown arrow and use the whole OSK for suggestions if that is tapped? Can you use the chevron from the icon theme for this?

Do you need design for this?

 I can certainly do most of the implementation without further design input if we're just going for a grid of suggestions overlaying the keyboard (much as android does); although I'd guess you might want to have some design input on how exactly that should be presented? e.g. perhaps we should have bigger fonts than on the word-ribbon to make them easier to press, closer to the key font size? Do we want any visual separators between characters? etc.

Let's use something like the attached for the expanded pinyin overlay. Scrollable with swiping or tapping the arrow keys, cross at top right closes the overlay. Are the font sizes big enough?

Looks good to me, presumably we should increase the font-size for the word ribbon in pinyin (when it's not expanded) as well to match?

Yes - would make sense to increase the word ribbon for pinyin in both modes