((bangs head on keyboard)). I've been trying to convince people that an incomplete font is BROKEN and not worthy of shipping with a system for 20 years. And I've spent way too much time mixing and matching incomplete fonts trying to get a complete font.
I going nuts right now because for some reason, since the last time I edited the Japanese version of my strings.xml, Japanese text started showing up in Eclipse as square boxes. At first I tried using MS Mincho for everything, but it really isn't very readable for non- Japanese characters. I have managed to get it working again by downloading the Japanese localized messages for Windows 7, but that really should not be necessary. The FONT doesn't take up a lot of space, but all that localized text (which I probably will never use) does take up a lot of space. Given what you're trying to do, I don't have a better idea (other than submitting it as a bug and encouraging people to vote for it -- I'd be the first in line!). The existing browser is broken (by the broken platform fonts). You're supplying a fixed version. Of course, if you have a set of publicly-distributable unicode fonts you can contribute to the platform, maybe you can convince them to make it a required part of the platform. But for your immediate needs -- I think you're going to need to treat this as a porting project, rather than an SDK project, as you'll be working with platform sources that aren't set up to build against the SDK. You'll need to ask questions about getting it built on the porting list. You'll also need to change the package name, as you won't be able to install it as a replacement (because of the different signing key). Given the size of the Indian and other Asian markets, supporting Tamil, Telegu, etc seems like a real easy decision to make. And given that free translation services are readily available, anyone, anywhere, at any time, may find themselves looking at some Tamil text, recognize it as at least being foreign, and send it off to be translated. Nobody, anywhere, anytime, wants to see perfectly good human-readable text rendered as blank rectangles! Tamil is much prettier to look at. On Jan 2, 3:50 pm, Pathman <suthars...@gmail.com> wrote: > The goal of my new web browser is to render web pages in different > fonts that have more unicode implementations than the ones that are > already supplied with the firmware/OS (For example languages like > Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, etc etc implimentations doesn't > come standard with android OS fonts) this makes it impossible for > users to view websites in those languages. > > Yes this could be a contribution to the standard OS, but it is hard to > convince anybody that ALL the people who use Android OS should have > ALL the unicode implementations of EVERY language in the world. > Therefore I believe this app should be standalone so that those who > needs it can download it separate. > > Yes I already have an app in the android market (named "Tamil > Browser") that was built around the webView. But the features of this > browser is limited. But the biggest problem with this app is I cannot > make my trick work for websites that use iFrames. > > I don't want re-invent the wheel and write the whole browser app from > scratch either. > > So I still believe copying the standard browser app and make a new > standalone browser is my best bet. Does anybody have a better idea how > I can do this? > > On Dec 28 2010, 11:28 pm, Bob Kerns <r...@acm.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Or, depending on what new features you want, perhaps you can build > > your new browser around WebView. > > > On Dec 28, 6:17 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:18 PM,Pathman<suthars...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I want to create an android application that is a customized version > > > > of the standard "browser" app (My new browser will have some cool new > > > > features than the standard one). So basically I just want to copy the > > > > standard android source from the <android root>/packages/apps/browser > > > > folder, rename it and create my Eclipse Project for the new app, > > > > before I start modifying it. > > > > You forgot about all the other work. > > > > > But it doesn't look like I am in the right track because Eclipse > > > > complains of tons of errors right after I have "Created the project > > > > from source" > > > > That would be all the other work. That application is not an SDK > > > application, but is part of the firmware. > > > > > Questions are: > > > > 1. Am I on the right track or is there something else I am missing? (I > > > > know how to do a basic android app and I have some of my apps in the > > > > android market) > > > > I would consider it to be the wrong track. > > > > > 2. If I am on the right track, what I am supposed to do to resolve the > > > > errors (mainly missing resources, classes etc). If I am not on the > > > > right track what are the other options I have. > > > > Write a browser app from scratch. Or, contribute your changes as > > > patches to an open source browser app. Or, contribute your changes as > > > firmware modifications to the regular browser app. > > > > -- > > > Mark Murphy (a Commons > > > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > > > Android 2.2 Programming Books:http://commonsware.com/books -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
