Droidcon India 2015 - Android & Indic Languages

Talk about challenges in developing Indic apps for Android. Details about Libindic-android library and Indic Keyboard, both Free and Open Source projects.

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1. Android & Indic Languages
4. http://j15h.nu/languages
5. Motorola Moto G1 Android 5.1
6. Sony Z3 Android 5.1
7. Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Android 5.1
8. github.com/jishnu7/Mobile-Indic-Support
13. History of Android & Indic Languages
14. languages other than hindi
15. complex script rendering
16. harfbuzz-ng in android 4.2
17. Noto Sans
18. challenges lack of fonts / language support in general input support rendering issues application size
19. Indic Project input Indic Keyboard Varnam Firefox OS Keyboard accessibility Dhvani Ibus Sharada Braille data Grandham Project Development Libindic Libindic SDK
20. Indic Keyboard
22. Indic Keyboard Google Indic Keyboard free and Open Source proprietary 23 languages 12 languages 55 layouts 23 layouts
23. অসমমযয (Assamese) বযবলয (Bengali) ગગજરરતત (Gujarati) हहिन्ददी (Hindi) ಕನನಡ (Kannada) رش ش أک (Kashmiri) മലയയളള (Malayalam) মমততলললন (Manipuri/Methei) ममैथथिलली (Maithili) मरराठठी (Marathi) ननेपरालली (Nepali) ଓଡଡଆ (Oriya) ਪਪਜਜਬਬ (Punjabi) ससंस्क कृ त (Sanskrit) ससंतरालली (Santali) தமமழ (Tamil) తలగ (Telugu) ودرا (Urdu) ة ش يبب رر ع ر لا (Arabic) မမြနန်မြမာစမာ (Burmese) ဘသ မြနန်; (Mon) සසහල (Sinhalese)
24. solution extended version of AOSP keyboard 20+ languages 50+ layouts free and Open Source dictionary based word suggestion
25. 55 layouts
26. transliteration
27. compact
28. phonetic
29. inscript
30. jquery.ime java/android port
31. dictionary based word suggestions
32. how to get it Google Play Store / F-Droid
33. How to contribute testing and feedback help on layouts more languages documentation
34. https://gitlab.com/smc/indic-keyboard/issues https://github.com/smc/Indic-Keyboard/issues
35. compiling $ git clone --recursive git@github.com:smc/Indic-Keyboard.git $ cd Indic-Keyboard/java $ gradle assembleDebug
36. Libindic SDK
37. problem lack of Free/Libre and Open Source libraries
38. solution 15+ language computing algorithms language detection cross language search script rendering
39. github.com/libindic/libindic-sdk
42. use cases support older versions of android user input without asking user to install custom keyboard & many more!
43. how to use it in your app direcly add in gradle / download source code and add to your project / download aar file from maven central and add as a local dependency
44. // preferred method dependencies { compile 'org.libindic:sdk-common:1.0.0@aar' compile 'org.libindic:sdk-render:1.0.0@aar' compile 'org.libindic:sdk-transliteration:1.0.0@aar' }
45. <org.libindic.sdk-transliteration.TransliteratorEditText android:id="@+id/editText" transliterator:targetLanguage="kannada" transliterator:transliteratedTextOutputTo="@+id/editText"/>
46. how to contribute feedbacks find bugs contribute additional algorithms
47. $ git clone --recursive git@github.com:libindic/libindic-sdk.git $ cd libindic $ gradle assembleDebug
48. What AOSP (Google) can improve language tests on CTS support libraries
49. Thank You! Jishnu Mohan http://j15h.nu jishnu7@gmail.com