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
   

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4. http://j15h.nu/languages
   

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5. Motorola Moto G1
   Android 5.1
   

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6. Sony Z3
   Android 5.1
   

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7. Samsung Galaxy Note 5
   Android 5.1
   

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8. github.com/jishnu7/Mobile-Indic-Support
   

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13. History of
    Android & Indic Languages
    

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14. languages other than hindi
    

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15. complex script rendering
    

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16. harfbuzz-ng in android 4.2
    

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17. Noto Sans
    

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18. challenges
    lack of fonts / language support in general
    input support
    rendering issues
    application size
    

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19. Indic Project
    input
    Indic Keyboard
    Varnam
    Firefox OS Keyboard
    accessibility
    Dhvani
    Ibus Sharada Braille
    data
    Grandham Project
    Development
    Libindic
    Libindic SDK
    

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20. Indic Keyboard
    

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22. Indic Keyboard Google Indic Keyboard
    free and Open Source proprietary
    23 languages 12 languages
    55 layouts 23 layouts
    

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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)
    

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24. solution
    extended version of AOSP keyboard
    20+ languages
    50+ layouts
    free and Open Source
    dictionary based word suggestion
    

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25. 55 layouts
    

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26. transliteration
    

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27. compact
    

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28. phonetic
    

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29. inscript
    

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30. jquery.ime java/android port
    

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31. dictionary based word
    suggestions
    

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32. how to get it
    Google Play Store / F-Droid
    

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33. How to contribute
    testing and feedback
    help on layouts
    more languages
    documentation
    

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34. https://gitlab.com/smc/indic-keyboard/issues
    https://github.com/smc/Indic-Keyboard/issues
    

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35. compiling
    $ git clone --recursive git@github.com:smc/Indic-Keyboard.git
    $ cd Indic-Keyboard/java
    $ gradle assembleDebug
    

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36. Libindic SDK
    

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37. problem
    lack of Free/Libre and Open Source libraries
    

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38. solution
    15+ language computing algorithms
    language detection
    cross language search
    script rendering
    

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39. github.com/libindic/libindic-sdk
    

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42. use cases
    support older versions of android
    user input without asking user to install custom keyboard
    & many more!
    

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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
    

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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'
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45. android:id="@+id/editText"
    transliterator:targetLanguage="kannada"
    transliterator:transliteratedTextOutputTo="@+id/editText"/>
    

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46. how to contribute
    feedbacks
    find bugs
    contribute additional algorithms
    

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47. $ git clone --recursive git@github.com:libindic/libindic-sdk.git
    $ cd libindic
    $ gradle assembleDebug
    

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48. What AOSP (Google) can improve
    language tests on CTS
    support libraries
    

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49. Thank You!
    Jishnu Mohan
    http://j15h.nu
    jishnu7@gmail.com
    

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