Re: How the new Japanese model switches between English and Japanese keyboards
What I do is swap between the google english, google japanese, and google chinese for handwriting. All it takes is holding down the space to change the input method. Select "Chinese Zhuyin" and one of those keyboards has a handwriting section where you can draw the kanji. Then just click the globe within that keyboard and change your input back to japanese. You don't have to copy or paste the kanji it stays within the typebox when you change inputs. It's called "google zhuyin" and it's in the playstore.
Finally, I have a question to complete the Japanese input experience. I want to be able to easily enter kanji with hand writing. Often I want to input a kanji character but don't know the reading. So hiragana input doesn't help and I need to hand write it. Here's what I do now: open the WWJDIC for Android app, select handwriting (the pencil icon), write the kanji, click to get the possible matches, select the kanji I'm looking for, select copy, and then return to the app and paste. This seems a few steps too many. I'm looking for a more direct approach to entering kanji. Thanks for any suggestions anyone has for this.
What I do is swap between the google english, google japanese, and google chinese for handwriting. All it takes is holding down the space to change the input method. Select "Chinese Zhuyin" and one of those keyboards has a handwriting section where you can draw the kanji. Then just click the globe within that keyboard and change your input back to japanese. You don't have to copy or paste the kanji it stays within the typebox when you change inputs. It's called "google zhuyin" and it's in the playstore.