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Arabic SMS version 1.5

March 9, 2009 by agawish | 21 Comments

la-elah-ella-allah

Dear all,

I just want to inform that i’m starting developing the next release of the program, and inshaAllah it’ll have those features:

1- Ability to write arabic message [well formed] and send it

2- Fix the long messages problem

3- To have just in time reader -To view the message in arabic upon recieving it without having to go to my application to view it-.

4- If possible * to read the messages in arabic anywhere right from your regular inbox.

Wish me luck we ed3oli :D

* this feature may not present, but i’ll try soo hard to do it inshaAllah.

Update: Find the new news about the Android Application in here

Update: The project has come to live, check out this link all http://bar.amr-gawish.com/

  • uaedude

    Jazak allah khair for your effort, be ithin allah it all goes well for you. You should look into combining your program with the other brothers arab sms writers’ program.

  • Mohammed

    any news yet?

    Thanks

  • nabil71

    السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
    اخي الكريم جزاك الله خير على جهودك الطيبة
    متى سوف تقوم بطرح البرنامج بتحديثه الجديد 1.5
    انا حاولت ان اقوم بتحميل الاصدار السابق ولكن يبدو انه تم ازالته

    ارجو من التوضيح

    ولك جزيل الشكر

  • 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://alshurafa.info Aman

    Thanks and good lock

  • Wasil Elsadig

    Dear mr. Amr,
    I just want to thank you on behalf of all arabic sms users in the G1 community. You rock man! Keep up the great work :-)

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

    Dear all,
    The version 1.5 is in it’s Testing stage

    It has the following features:

    1- Fix the long messages problem

    2- Native support for lam-alef

    3- Just in time reader -To view the message in arabic upon recieving it without having to go to my application to view it-.

    I’ll release it so soon.
    wait for it

  • akram

    Salam all

    where i can download this program arabis sms 1.5 for my android devive please thanks salam

  • OS

    Hi Amr

    what a fantastic effort? god bless you ;;

    is there a way where you can convert this into an open source & collaborative effort so it can exell further and you get a lot of assistance?

  • http://www.binaryleysium.com Casey Link

    Salam Amr,

    Your application is fantastic, and I appreciate you (and Ahmed) getting unofficial Arabic support on Android to the point it is at now.

    I’m an open source android developer interested in supporting Arabic in my apps (as well as writing apps for arabic speakers). Would you consider publishing the source for your application, or at least the development libraries used to render Arabic onscreen?

    Open sourced Arabic libs for android would readily speed up the adoption of Arabic by the developer community at large, because I am sure there are many Arabic speaking Android devs who would love to add arabic support to their apps.

    Releasing it on a site like sourceforge or google code would let you release incremental versions, and receive feedback (bug reports + patches) from other developers.

    Please let me know what you think! I’d really appreciate it.

    Casey

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

    @akram the version 1.5 is still in it’s testing area, And i dont have much time to develop in it, so it’s taking a longer time than it supposed to!
    …Sorry about that :\

    @OS, I’m considering it.

    @Casey The reason i didn’t share my code till now, is that It’s messed up, I was just trying a proof of concept, giving the fact that up till now i don’t own an Android phone , you would understand how doubtful I’m with my code to be released in public, But i’ll so much consider it in the next future inshaAllah.

  • http://www.binaryelysium.com/ Casey Link

    @Amr

    That’s totally understandable. I think it is a good idea to not release any user apps until they are nice and polished. However, if you were to open up your code for developers only (by not releasing anything on the market, or any APK) then you could get the community involved to help you in getting the libraries into a user-usable state!

    Especially when you can get devs (like me) with actual android devices to help you test and fix bugs/features.

    shokran owie for the response!

  • Hafez

    Dear

    I am very happy to find someone who interested to support out Arabic language.

    many many many thanks.

  • Salem

    السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

    عزيزي الكريم , مجهود رائع جدا و لكن لماذا لاتتعاون مع مبرمج تطبيق handcent
    للرسائل

    بحيث يكون تطبيق يقرأ و يكتب عربي بالإضافة للميزات التطبيق الحالية , لأنه تطبيق ممتاز جدا و لكنه يحتاج لخبرتك و لمساتك ليدعم اللغة العربية قراءة و كتابة

    وشكرا

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

    I tried to contact him, but I found no response…
    Sorry to disappoint you about that!

  • Salem

    غريب جدا عدم تجاوبه مع إنه كنت أتمنى منكم التعاون للخروج ببرنامج يغطي كافة إحتياجاتنا

    وشكرا لكم

  • Raed

    Salam to all,
    The communication above dos not lead to the arabic sms ver 1.5 release yet. Can someone elaborate on whether there is a release available. Tthe truth is that I was shocked when I bought my Behold II Android phone to find ot it does not support Arabic language. It is an expensive phone yet not that useful without this feature.

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

    Hey Raed,
    The application never made it to the market, it was only a test on my server as I opened the code for the public to make use of it, to make a better applications.

    Due to the fact I dont have enough time, and I dont have an Android phone to test against :)

  • RK

    Hi all,

    I believe someone in this forum would be able to guide me in my endeavour. I want to support Arabic in Android 2.1.

    I am able to shape the arabic characters well. But I am facing some real performance issues. When I am composing a message in arabic, after I enter a few characters, the response becomes too slow. If I do not shape the letters, the response is good.

    I ported the shaper code to native c and am calling the shaping function from skia skdraw.cpp. If I do this, the response is very good but I see some extra space characters which are clearly not acceptable. I’am missing anything here? Any help would be much appreciated.

    Thanks and regards

  • Maissa

    Hello everybody,

    I’m working on arabicAndroid and trying to add ArabicShaping.cpp to Android.mk files and skDraw.cpp in order to get arabic browser and icons!
    please help!

    thanks in advance!

  • d.. hany

    al salam alikom emg. amr basha.. i have a request and don’t consider it silly plz :) .. i am new user for android system , i bought a sony ericsson xperia x10 mini and i can’t load ur arabic sms reader from any site,, excuse me, not the market and not arabic android montada,, can u plz send me dirct link or working code link if no dirct link for ur program, i think it is a must for any arabic user ,,much regards for you and gazak allah khayran..

    my e mail is hany_sinple@hotmail.com

    much regards