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Arabic SMS Reader v1.0.1

February 14, 2009 by agawish | 36 Comments

Arabic Android

Dear All,

I’ve published my first Android application Arabic SMS Reader v1.0.0 search for it in the market and give it a test.

Unfortunately I cant test it on my emulator, so I’m having faith in you guys to tell  me, if it works well or not :)

The Application is simple, it suppose to have the sms inbox just as u open it, and when clicking on one item, it supposed to reveal your message into its right arabic format.

If you have any feedback dont hesitate to tell me at once, thanks :)

  • Ahmad Yousry

    it worksgreat ,,, but it shows the body of the messages not the sender so its very confusing and does not support threads as well… a relook at the interface is urgently needed

    it would be better if the application would work in the background and called as a process in other apps so i can use default SMS program to view arabic sms

  • http://r7aal.blogspot.com/ Hassan Jaffar-Ali

    thx for the app. It only worked though for one sms, the latest arabic one and forced closed on the older ones with the following pop up msg:

    Sorry!
    The application Arabic SMS Manager (process org.k) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.

    \anyways, thank you very much for this long awaited for app, and all the best. I hope we see some improvement and more Arabic enabled app coming soon.

  • http://blog.amr-gawish.com agawish

    Thanks for your comments, I’ll certainly work on those enhancements asap, I didn’t have time so I was just giving it a try to see if the proof of concept is working, but Thanks God it does.
    I’ll do make an interface enhancements Ahmad :)

    Hassan, I would like to know the scenario you went through to give you this error, It’d be appreciated to tell me exactly what you have been through.

  • http://r7aal.blogspot.com/ Hassan Jaffar-Ali

    Sure, i’ve re-checked the application..

    Through your app:

    - I can read all the SMSs which include only Arabic letters (rectangular boxes)
    - I can read all the SMSs which include only Latin letters
    - The previous error pop up msg (the one one in my previous comment) was displayed as I attempted to read any SMS that includes both Arabic and Latin letters.
    - The error msg was also displayed when attempting to read SMSs with Arabic letters and the following symbols
    @
    .

    ”

    In summery, the application can only read Arabic if the received msg has only rectangular boxes. If within the SMS there are any letters or symbols displayed the application will give you the error msg outlined previously..

    I hope this would be of help to you.

  • Rashed

    thanks for the app you posted in the market, plz do the following:
    1- try to make it same as the sms app in android (sms chat).
    2- add sender number. (icant see it )
    3- ability to forward the sms.
    4- add an icon (very simple) i guess its in asset folder.

    and again thanks a million.

  • Mohammed Al-Zahid

    First of all thank you very much for this wonderful piece of work. Yes it needs more development, but as fist step an excellent work where no one stepped that far.
    Here is my experience,
    I have DejaVuSans font and installed this app. I can read SMS Arabic and English and the mix Arabic and English as will without any problem. However, once I have a long messages (more than one page) I got the force close error very similer to Hassan’s. I guess the application cannot decode the page breakes between the messages and not able to link them together.
    If we can improve the followings that will be greater:
    - Display long sms without errors (the ones with more than one page)
    - Bigger font.
    - Add virtual keyboard.
    - Add forward, delete, replay, etc…

    Amr, please drop me an email with your phone number, i have some solution regarding keybord input. i can explain it to you.
    Thank you,

  • http://blog.amr-gawish.com agawish

    Yes Hassan, It helped alot, I’ll do that fix right away.

    And do some enhancement in the Design, It looks really ugly doesn’t it :)

  • http://blog.amr-gawish.com agawish

    Thanks Mohammed for your great feedback, I think i’d expect it’d crash on long messages, but I believe solutions are possible in that area.

    Full control of SMS wasn’t my purpose in the first place, however adding the functionality of Arabic keyboard is one of it, So I guess i might need your help in that.

    Thanks again for your words, and i’ll send you a mail with the number inshaAllah

  • http://blog.amr-gawish.com agawish

    And for Rashed, that functionality inshaAllah will be included in the next version :)

    Thanks for your feedback

  • Q8android

    Great work Amr, and thanks to all the guys who worked on this achievement.

    Hassan’s comment came right on the money, I tried more than once to open several sms, but then I noticed only one opening that didn’t include any symbols (only boxes, english letters and english numbers), meanwhile another one only had (brackets). I got the same error message.

    there’s also something worth pointing out,
    جوائز رائعة
    I got
    جوائ ز رائ عة
    there seems to be a problem with the connected “hamza”.

    thanks again, and keep up the great work!

  • http://blog.amr-gawish.com agawish

    I see thanks Q8android for your comment, this will be into consideration next time :)

    and thanks all for your comments and feedback

  • http://www.rashod.com Rashid Alkuwari

    it’s soo great finaly I can read arabic on my device. But there some errors with some messages I can’t figure it out .. soo keep up the hard work bro … I’m really proud of u and ur effort thank you :)

  • المطر

    hi bro its great job :) im getting the same prob wich mr hasan ali talked about . but 4 all massages now ! thanx bro and wish u the best :)

  • http://blog.amr-gawish.com agawish

    inshaAllah in the next releases I’ll be fixing this error and inshaAllah will try to include the functionality everywhere (browser, contacts and notes)

    Just be patient :)

  • Burhan Shakil

    Hey I checked ur app…its good….but only with small sms….big sms make it force close..
    I wonder if u can upload the source code on google code…. so many developers can improve the application…

    I am also a developer…I am also working on a arabic application…but my text does not join it appears in seperate letters….

    Wonder if u can send me ur source code…thanks

  • http://blog.amr-gawish.com agawish

    Dear all,
    Sorry for being late in response, i was so busy the past couple of weeks.

    The version 1.5 is almost over i covered the long messages problem along with adding native support to لا thanks God.

    Still remaining issue in Writing the message which i believe i solved in some other applications.

    Currently I’m testing it, and it’ll be released very soon inshaAllah.

  • http://none jaffar

    great application bro, I hope next versions will have all problems fixed inshalla ,

    I have no android-based device, but since it’s open source, I salute your appreciated efforts,,

    god bless you

  • http://blog.amr-gawish.com agawish

    I’ll try to release the next version again, as I already lost hope before!

  • http://bashar.com Bashar

    working great at my end, but crash if the arabic SMS has numbers

    any fix for that?

  • Fahed

    Salam Aleykum

    Any update with the arabic SMS reader. I am still having issues reading and writing Arabic SMS.

    Thank you

  • http://blog.amr-gawish.com agawish

    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 :)

  • Eisa

    The app keeps crashing in A magic with a rooted eclair,
    mostly when messages contain numbers

  • kiaee

    Hi I am writing to you from Iran. I recently bought Iphone 3GS from china (chinese iphone) and i am looking to get arabic sms software to make my mobile able to send persian sms since it has common alphabet with arabic. would you please send me your Arabic SMS Reader v1.0.1 download link for me. i could not find it here.
    thanks a lot

  • devil13

    Hello,
    i have HTC Hero but i don’t have the MARKET application but i have SAM 3.5

    is there similar application in SAM 3.5?

    your quick response will be highly appreciated

  • nadere alnaggar

    alsalam alaikum ,

    i have a Samsung galaxi S and i am loocking for an app. to be able to
    read arabic web page.

    if you have one can you please e-mail it to me.

    thank you

  • dilshad

    Hi

    i have a Samsung galaxi S and i am loocking for an app. to be able to
    read arabic web page.

    if you have one can you please e-mail it to me.

    thank you

  • Tajullamuku

    how to download this application to my mobile?can you help me?

  • http://www.amr-gawish.com agawish

    You can download the application from Android Market, but I don’t recommend using it on the newest mobiles, there are several applications that read Arabic SMS in a better way

  • SomeGuy

    Hi,

    I tried your app on Android 2.1, the application shows the list of e-mails but the arabic caracters are in squares, it is only when I select a message that a popup shows the message in arabic caracters.

    This is mainly a reader, not an sms managers, so one can not reply, can not delete or compose a new message.

    It’s a good initiative though,

    Great work

  • Hesamazar

    E-mail

  • Bassam Al-Sarori

    Did not work on Droid X. First it listed SMS messages and when I select on a message it crashes. Also, Arabic messages in the list had un-joined letters like:
    ال س ل ام ع ل ي ك م
    I’m a developer and would which to help.

  • Zzz

    ur apps crash a lot and i v notice its probably related to the sms length

  • Praween Erk

    Hi gawish,

    Hope doing well.
    Actually I’m implementing arabic keyboard for am application but not getting the complete idea of implementation.
    Can u please help me out for this.
    My application is to implement a notepad kind of application and storing data in database.But for keyboard features i tried the sample softkeyboard application to integrate with my application.As keyboard is not coming over app screen.

    Waiting for your reply.
    -Praween

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  • Omahmad

    do you have any update for the Arabic software for motorola atrix.  i have contract for three years and they told me when I bought it ,it is very easy to find app., which I didn’t found and that’s mean I have to keep this phone for three years. please help me to receive and send text message in arabic

  • Hailan_arch

    i will see