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Thanks Aman, Its just I’m not really free to complete it, so it’s better to share it and make a better piece of software.

Soon the link will be available with some demonstration and a documentation of the code inshaAllah.

Dear Ali,

The BAR project is targeted for development, for anyone who want use this Library in his application, but its not targeted to a standalone application.

But i’ll try soon to give some example, of how to embed the functionality in an application.

I think you should write in details what it needs to make it fully support Arabic

Last time I checked, the only letter that is not reshaped properly is the ئ which should appear as ئـ when there is something after it but not before. also, it trades non arabic characters as Arabic characters meaning that it if there is no space between / and سلام it will show it ـسلام

Is there something else missing?

@Aman’s First post, well Aman, I dont think it’ll be hard to find, but the problem it would cost a whole new operating system to add, to support Arabic native.

But anyway If i found it, I might do and upload this build online on the project.

Well, Its a really good news, I could integrate the Arabic Reshaper into one of those builds and make it Support Arabic Natively, Although it’ll be hard to test something like that!

If you have any suggestion concerning that, or if you can help in this stuff, It’ll be much appreciated

Well, that is a great news, why don’t you put this up, and share it, maybe our collaboration will make something beautiful

Unfortunately I don’t have any G1 devices to test on, so I need a software to do that for me!

I will upload everything when I finish. I am thinking of starting a Google page just for that. I have some old stuff people may consider it useful. Like the Arabic-supporting fonts and how to add them using Terminal. I also created an update.zip file that changes the fonts automatically. But you know, all of that needs ROOT access!

Salam,

I just wanted to tell you that I am still working on it. I have one problem:
I tried Arabizing The Browser and I found a weird issue. The letters are connected but words and sentences are reversed. For example: السلام عليكم becomes مكيلع مالسلا

As for Android, I found something good for you, an android live CD!
Here is the link: I tried it on my virtual machine and it is working!!

Here is the link:
http://code.google.com/p/live-android/
They will also publish a new verson soon.

I forgot to send you this link:

http://honeypod.blogspot.com/2007/12/compile-android-kernel-from-source.html

This link describe how to compile android kernel and run it with the emulator (only in Linux)

You will still need to use Windows to sign your files and that’s what made me install Windows on virtual machine just to sign the files and make my custom build. But with this. You will be able to test your kernel without an actual device.

@vikram please specify the code you used to achieve this!

@aman really really really great efforts man, I’ll use it all to check and test my apps from now on, and even If possible to help you out, I’ll be a good assistant inshaAllah

Rajab, I dont know about HTC magic but it supposed to be working normally

asslamo alikom
its realy great job
i want to say that we work now on this project “arabization of android” as a graduation project and the reshaper class was very useful for us thanks alot for making it open source and in shaa allah we will make it open source and share it when we finish it
we just begin with register the arabic font in the system
and ya you have to install linux to get the source code of android and build it and u must have about 20 giga driver to install linux and android source code and build it
after that u will be able to edit the source code and test your work
this is the link to install the android source code
http://source.android.com/download
good luck to all
rehab

agawish, i managed to get it work on my HTC magic Android but still need some fixes espiecialy when thw text mixed with numbers or in a long text , it shows an error massage in some text.

please keep the good job and waitin g for the final sofware.

Rajab

I am working on localization of Urdu. I was looking for Reshaper similar to that of Arabic-Reshaper( a great job). Can I get any help regarding the same?

Well im thinking of temp solution, what i really need is the web browser the msgs are fine for now, so why dont we modify the source code of the browser or we can use webview in android keep the fonts in the assets and then apply the reshaper somehow, maybe by storing the html locally then modify the arabic text by connecting it. im not sure if what im saying in the right track.

I have mytouch 3G, and I’m using MacBook. How do I install Arabic-Reshaper?
Thank you very much for such an effort.

Dear All, sorry for making you wait all this long.
I’m so sorry about that, I’ve been extremely busy in work, and I’d like to inform you that I’ll be more active on regular basis from now on.

I’ll be working on a new version of Arabic SMS Reader, and I’ll try to support the new Mobile devices.

The working on Arabization of the whole system is done be Aman, you can find all the information you need from here
https://sites.google.com/a/ut.utm.edu/arabic-android/

unfortunately that google releases so many version of their android, so It’ll be hard to follow, but inshaAllah you will something good soon

Thanks for your patience all

hi,
do you know where I can download the TTF font file for connected arabic characters?
Currently, the arabic font file only has deattached arabic form only.
so I can’t see arabic character connected in my phone.

Any idea?

Thanks guys for your efforts and time..

well, I know that Aman and agawish are great developers… but the thing is that you speak a little pit of jargons, which is not understood by normal and unexperienced programming languages users :)..

plz make it more simple…

I really appreciate your efforts in making Arabic lang. alive for Android, but I need from you to answer few questions if you dont mind of course..

1. agawish you have said that connected Arabic characters has to be made by hand, so what is the process please..

If you dont mind step by step to make things clear to us who are not good with IT stuff..

Thanks for your time

Thanks for Arabic Reshaper class,

It works great with normal text, but when I put Harakah like Fatha, Kasra and so on, again the characters appear separate. This is necessary for Quranic text. Can you help me about that?
Thanks