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QATTKey

The Vietnamese keyboard for Android: write Chữ Nôm, QATT or PA in any chat. It is sent as an image, so everyone can read it without a font.

Free · about 50 MB · beta version

A chat in Messenger: a message in Chữ Nôm sent as an image in a colour gradient; below it QATTKey with the composition field, the next word being typed and its Chữ Nôm candidates
Chữ Nôm in Messenger: the receiver needs no font at all.

Type as usual, send in the script you like.

1

Open the field

In any app, tap the 喃 icon in the suggestion bar. A field of its own opens above the keyboard.

2

Type Telex, pick a character

Type Vietnamese with Telex. Below the field come the candidates in PA, QATT and Chữ Nôm; a tap picks one, the space bar converts the word by itself.

3

Send it as an image

The orange send button puts the text in as an image in the style you chose. The receiver sees exactly what you see, without any font.

Choose the look of your image.

Pick a style in the menu next to the send button; the field shows the image that will be sent at once, with the same line breaks.

Every app keeps its own choice.

The menu of the send formats: the image styles, each in its colours, and Text; below it the composition field in the Ocean style

Or as text

Send Chữ Nôm as Unicode text when you like; in an app that takes no images the keyboard sends text by itself.

Your scripts

Switch PA, QATT and Chữ Nôm on or off, and choose what the space bar converts to.

An everyday keyboard

Outside the field it is a full keyboard: Vietnamese, German, English and many more languages, with word suggestions.

Installed in three steps.

  1. Download the APK and open it; Android asks whether this browser may install apps — allow it.
  2. Open QATTKey, switch the keyboard on (Settings → System → Keyboard) and choose it as the active keyboard.
  3. The first time you open the field you choose the scripts you want.

Download the APK (Android)

This is a beta that is published only as an APK (not on Google Play), for Android 5 and newer.

QATTKey is a fork of HeliBoard (GPL-3.0). Source code: qtng/qatt-chunom-apk.