So this is a general question. I have to do a 15 page group project for my summer college course and I'm stuck trying to find the answer online. For my class, we are pretending to be a US mobile telecom looking to expand into India. I'm doing the business side of the proposal and want to discuss phone languages.
However I know very little about India in general. I know there are something like 16 languages used in the country, but are all 16 available on all phones? If not what are the most common languages? Is it pretty standard?
Pardon my ignorance, I'm short on time and all my searches on google are inconclusive (can't figure out how to word my search to find the answer)
Thank you!
Not one Indian language is naively supported by Android. The [Android] phones come with English as the default language. Several languages in India uses the same writing script, so all one needs is support for the script and the phone can be deployed in whatever regional language is required.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India
You can cover a lot of people with Hindi and Urdu, but Google is too f*cking stupid to see this.
EDIT: A tip for your project is to NOT force English upon the local populace. It pisses people off.
Hello guys, I would like to have a try on writing apps in this summer holiday, and I would like to get help from u guys.
As I said in title, I'm a whole new comer. I haven't learnt any program language before, and I don't know where can I start from.
I've try to find some guides for new comer in chinese (I use chinese be my main language as I am a Hong Kong) , but I find that all of them are getting to have the premise for the program based.
I've try to find guides in eng, but still I don't know where should I start from, so I'm asking for some advise from u guys, hope u can advise me some website or guides that I should start from, thx.
there is a way that helps you "write" your own app while you don't need to know any program language. Imagine, the coder sometimes is just like a mason, put bricks one by one follow the drawing and the instruction of the architect. The architect design the whole things, and he don't need to build with his own hands.
And you can be the app architect, then find an engineer and some coders.
Hello
I have looked in all the forums speaking Arabic, I could not find anybody knows anything about this device never
They could not help me, they did not know many of this device
But I have hope of finding a solution to my problem in this forum wonderful
I want help in how to add Arabic to external keyboard for this device
I want to write in Arabic using the external keyboard to the device and not touch
It has been 3 weeks on the weary search in all the forums, but without the benefit due to lack of experts for this device
Help me please,
I apologize about the markedly bad language and expression
Not sure why you're calling me out specifically... I've told you repeatedly this is an English speaking forum - and I speak English. I don't speak Arabic. I use the keyboard to write, surprise! In English.
So if you want help with Arabic, you are going to have to ask in another forum or wait for someone else to answer you (which I mentioned in another thread that is unlikely for the reasons above).
Good luck.
fawwwaz01 said:
Hello
I have looked in all the forums speaking Arabic, I could not find anybody knows anything about this device never
They could not help me, they did not know many of this device...
...It has been 3 weeks on the weary search in all the forums, but without the benefit due to lack of experts for this device...
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Saying that people around here don't know about the device is absurd. We don't lack experts here, but since XDA is an English-only forum, almost nobody uses and cares about Arabian and therefore failed to help you in that particular way.
Feel free to let out your anger and turn to elsewhere for help.
Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM11
Since JellyBean, it's easy to add custom keyboard layouts, they can be made available to system via a simple application.
For CM11 (which should support Arabic and other RTL languages quite well), I include AsantiKeypad application for that purpose - https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_motorola_moto_msm8960/tree/cm-11.0/AsantiKeypad
But to create an Arabic layout for the Photon Q keypad, it needs someone who's able to understand the glyphs and who's able to create the appropriate map.
If you know an already existing Arabic keyboard layout map made for Droid4, it could be easily incorporated in AsantiKeypad app.
Or try to make it from scratch, I'll merge it if I'll find the time for it and you'll keep bothering me about it long enough .
arrrghhh said:
Not sure why you're calling me out specifically... I've told you repeatedly this is an English speaking forum - and I speak English. I don't speak Arabic. I use the keyboard to write, surprise! In English.
So if you want help with Arabic, you are going to have to ask in another forum or wait for someone else to answer you (which I mentioned in another thread that is unlikely for the reasons above).
Good luck.
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I know that this forum speaks English - and you speak English.
But you're the only one who mastered dealing with this device,
I've asked several forums in Arabic but not without interest did not find any response
Do you kindly help me?
AndyYan said:
Saying that people around here don't know about the device is absurd. We don't lack experts here, but since XDA is an English-only forum, almost nobody uses and cares about Arabian and therefore failed to help you in that particular way.
Feel free to let out your anger and turn to elsewhere for help.
Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM11
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We have created this forum for the exchange of information and help others regardless of tone or intellectual differences
We are all human beings and there is no need for racist ..
I hope some of their responses to be stimulatory or an encouraging
not disappointing
I have the highest thread I did not find a solution in other forums
This is what forced me to put my problem here, because of the lack of experts for this device
I wish I could show some sportsmanship and high morals my friend
This is the forum to help others regardless of cultures
If were not able to solve the problems of others, there is nothing wrong, but I hope not to interfere
kabaldan said:
Since JellyBean, it's easy to add custom keyboard layouts, they can be made available to system via a simple application.
For CM11 (which should support Arabic and other RTL languages quite well), I include AsantiKeypad application for that purpose - https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_motorola_moto_msm8960/tree/cm-11.0/AsantiKeypad
But to create an Arabic layout for the Photon Q keypad, it needs someone who's able to understand the glyphs and who's able to create the appropriate map.
If you know an already existing Arabic keyboard layout map made for Droid4, it could be easily incorporated in AsantiKeypad app.
Or try to make it from scratch, I'll merge it if I'll find the time for it and you'll keep bothering me about it long enough .
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Thank you kabaldan
I have excelled in reply and facilitated more and gave me new hope towards the development of this device
But is there any additives
For example, some instructions and tips about this application
I want simplified explanation
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But you're the only one who mastered dealing with this device
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What are you taking other devs for (especially those behind the scenes doing ground work for CM11 and other custom ROMs, like @kabaldan )?
fawwwaz01 said:
We have created this forum for the exchange of information and help others regardless of tone or intellectual differences
We are all human beings and there is no need for racist ..
I hope some of their responses to be stimulatory or an encouraging
not disappointing ...
...This is the forum to help others regardless of cultures
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True, although this forum is created with only English in mind, you often see people from other non-English countries or people that don't use English around here. I'm a Chinese myself so I partially understand why you're here for help - because we lack help in our home countries' forums.
However, as we're aware that both this forum and Android aren't made for all languages and cultures, even when we ask or answer questions in other languages, the question will be related to the phone itself, like how you fix reboots, how you flash a ROM, etc. These discussions have no language boundaries and can be understood by all.
As of your problem, it naturally involves another language which most people around here don't understand, and you see, forcing devs to learn a language and do the job only to fulfill a single request isn't realistic.
Talking about @kabaldan 's solution, he said that AsantiKeypad can import keyboard layouts, but he also said that there should be an Arabic layout available for importing first, which I Googled for you and sadly found nothing relevant. So, just like what he said, if there's none existing, then you have to find a dev who understands Arabic to write one up for you. Good luck with that.
Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM11
The lack of any hints in the all Chinese setup guide makes the whole product less than useless...
5 hours hunting, still can't find English, let alone select English.
If anyone can give me a hint I would be delighted
Steve ....................very frustrated
Sir
About what are we talking about here? ROM, device and so on we need more details about ...
Thanks
Hello XDAers, I'm not sure whether it's allowed to ask for an app, but now that you know I'm asking for one... It's about the famous website crowdin.com,which is nearly an essential stop station for those who make new applications and want to translate it to many locale languages.
It gets quite hard to translate stuff from my browser on phone when I'm not home, which makes the process slow and boring, so I thought that if there was an "official, maybe" application for the thing, it would be absolutely better and more convenient.
Hi, thank you for isms XDA Assist. You could try asking in the hacking and development forum,http://forum.xda-developers.com/android
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