The News ======= Rajiv wrote an Android 2.2 client for looking up meaning of words using Silpa dictionary service ( http://silpa.org.in/Dictionary ). It currently supports only the English-Malayalam and English-Hindi dictionaries though, but works well enough for daily usage.
Yes - you can read the meanings in Malayalam even though Android 2.2 doesn't support Malayalam rendering. Rajiv's blog post : http://www.rajivnair.in/2011/03/announcing-silpa-indic-languages.html My blog : http://aashiks.in/blog/?p=182 Install ==== An APK is available at http://aashiks.in/SilpaDictionary.apk https://github.com/rajivnair/Silpa-Dictionary-Android-client/blob/master/Silpa%20Dictionary.apk Install it by browsing the site through your phone and clicking on the link or by downloading the APK into your phone's storage and opening it from the phone. Please report bugs at : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/silpa/ How it works ========= It uses SILPA project's dictionary service to retrieve meanings as rendered images. Internally, the dictionary module makes use of the Script rendering module (which is still under development) to generate an image of the word's meaning. Hack The code for the android client is available in Rajiv's Github : https://github.com/rajivnair/Silpa-Dictionary-Android-client Official SILPA code repo is available at http://gitorious.org/silpa/silpa Credits ===== Android client written by Rajiv R Nair, long time SMC member, co-author of Freedom Toaster software, fellow FOSS enthusiast Vasudev Kamath ( http://vasudevkamath.blogspot.com/ ) , contributor and maintainer of SILPA project, for advice and help in committing and pushing code to Silpa server. Santhosh Thottingal ( http://thottingal.in ) , founder of SILPA project and long time SMC contributor, for constant support and advice. Anish NL ( http://www.aneeshnl.co.cc ) SMC member, FOSS lover, fixed a showstopper bug in the SILPA dictionary module Ashik Salahudeen (http://aashiks.in/blog ) - wrote a few lines of code in SILPA to hook together the existing modules on server side to make Rajiv's job easier. Do download and test :) -- aashik -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
