Localization in Android is easy. But I have to define everything what I need.
Is there way to access some common standard words from system itself?
Some words like "Cancel", "About", "Help" are definitely inside locale somewhere.
How can I use them?
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Is there a list this keeps? I'd like to add and subtract some words. Is it a text file I can edit?
Thanks,
C
Yeah, I'd like to know that also.
I've a list of all words (well, almost) in my language in alphabetical order and I'd like to use it as XT9 Dictionary data.
I created a prototype Andorid application that can be used as a workaround for viewing web pages with Arabic content.
The application is a viewer for clipboard content, with basic support for displaying Arabic letters without requiring ROOT access, or the installation of any Arabic fonts.
To use the application, go to the page with Arabic content, then select the text that you are interested in, and copy it to the clipboard, then start the "Arabic Clippings" application, and you should see Arabic rendering of the text that you copied, without any ? or any squares.
Once the application is running, an easier way to switch back and forth between it and the browser is to hold the "Home" button a little bit long, and that should show a list of recent applications, so you can switch back and forth between the two apps.
Notes:
- The basic premise behind the app is that the user can select and copy the Arabic text. This means that the user should have a relatively new Android phone (eclair and above?).
- The cut-n-past functionality is added in recent Android SDKs, but not all apps support it. For example, you can't do this on the GMail app or Facebook. So to use this app with these apps, you have to go to the corresponding web site in the browser.
- The logic for reshaping and joining the Arabic letters is reused from the Better Arabic Reshaper project (http://bar.amr-gawish.com).
- The application doesn't need a special font, because I already packaged a custom Arabic font. I chose one of the free fonts from http://freearabicfonts.com/
As you can see, this is intended mainly as a workaround. It is good for the occasional viewing of Arabic pages, especially when on the go and away from a desktop machine.
To take a look at the app, follow this link from your Android phone, and chose to open it with the Android Market application (this works only from the phone):
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.firassonline.clipboardViewer
Alternatively, you can search for "Arabic Clippings"
Good work, works well on my Incredible. Will forward it to Arab friends who need a workaround and can't get the arabic fonts working.
Also I'm sure you're aware of this but the terminal forms of the letters are non-functional; the medial letter forms appear in their place.
Hello, I have new SII (and it is my first android device), I need for it android application that can open my excel spreedsheed with nearly 10000 rows (columns are there just 8) but it needs to be able to do:
1. Open such big spreetsheet
2. Set there filter, enough is "automatic filter" like exist in PC Excel.
3. It must be able use function "summation" (not sure if this english word it correct) simple count all values in selecte area of columns
4. it must be able use function summation applied on filter (subtotal)
5. I must be able sort items as minimum for 1 column, better will be for 3 (like in excel at first sort by colum C, than after B and last after E for example
It can be pait application, no problem, but at first I need know that it can do what I need.
have you tried this?:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dataviz.docstogoapp&feature=more_from_developer
No, I did not. I installend free version that is for me nearly useless because it is plain viewer.
Looking how free version works it looks to me that:
summation amd functions will be possible, no problem with it
BUT
Filters are not available.
About data sorting I really do not know.
However I do not have paid version so in fact I do not know. I do not want purchase it if it does not work for me. Ok, may be I can find some support and ask there, but may be there are other applications working.
Hi.
Before I start with my question, just a little background. I work in a user guide development firm, and mainly work on Galaxy devices.
One of the most time-consuming process in my work is to match all UI strings (app names, menu text, labels, etc) of the actual device with the user guide.
This is currently being done with human power, with a staff looking at the user guide, check the device if this is correct, and annotate the draft PDF if the UI strings don't match.
If this was for just one language, it's doable. But with 40 or so languages (including Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese), it definitely makes me want to puke.
This is a very tiring, eye-straining work that I'm trying to resolve, for everyone's sake.
I tried decompressing the Galaxy firmware myself, but the XML data is encoded into binary(for what reason I have no idea), and is not readable.
So now I'm turning to the masters and hope for any luck.
What I would like to know is ...
Hack the Galaxy firmware(md5), and extract UI strings for all language and save in spreadsheet or something, or
Mirror the device's screen on the desktop, copy the desired UI string, and paste it to a desktop application(e.g. Adobe Acrobat).
If the first option is possible, then I can utilize the data for some sort of automation, and would be the best.
If the second option is possible, then I would no longer have to type all kinds of foreign characters(this is also a very time-consuming work), and make some progress in timeline.
If all options are not possible, and there's absolutely no way of automating this process, then well... I guess I'll go see the eye doctor more often than now.
Any ideas or helps would be great.
Thank you.
The Samsung keyboard app comes preloaded with the input language of the phone's region (let's say Korean). Of course you can add other input languages and the keyboard app will remember the last language you used for normal text inputs. However, that's not the case for password fields - there, it always defaults to the preloaded language and does not remember your recent language selection (that means you can change the input language in a password field, but next time it will be the preloaded language again).
The only way to change it is to disable the preloaded language (removing it is not possible), then it seems to default to the earliest (not disabled) installed language, and still doesn't remember a different language selection. I don't know if that's just a bug or if there's some hidden setting for this. Since it chooses the earliest installed language, is there a way to change the language list hierarchy somewhere in the settings/properties? That would at least allow me to set the default password field language to the most convenient one, even if it still doesn't remember the last used language.
This issue is not device specific because it affects the Samsung keyboard app (on the recent Android versions) and how it handles password fields. Is there a possible workaround?