i am using arabic characters for the first time in my app
this is how they should look like :
But this is how they end up :
things i tried:
changed the phone language to arabic.
i chose this font :Arabic type settings. i found in the fonts list
things works well for windows, its only in Android i get the problem.
i believe i am missing something because i never used arabic in apps before.
i appreciate your help.
Fire Monkey does not support right-to-left languages like Arabic. Unfortunately your chosen framework is not capable of meeting your needs. You will need to find a different tool to write your app.
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I have an Android app that currently only has a fallback language, so all strings are in res/values/strings.xml and are in English. This works fine with TalkBack while the OS is also set to English. However, as soon as I change the OS language to anything other than English, TalkBack starts to speak those English words using the pronunciation of the OS language, which is weird and hard to understand.
How can I declare to the Android OS what the language of my fallback resources is so that TalkBack can choose the correct pronunciation to use?
Unfortunately, as far as I know Talkback doesn't support auto language switching. Google TTS seems to do some auto switching based on non-latin characters these days, but for latin languages it just doesn't do anything except keep the phone language. So, I'm afraid there's nothing you can do to facilitate this.
Create a strings.xml variation for english and leave it like this
<resources ...>
</resources>
According to the official doc：
https://developer.android.com/training/basics/supporting-devices/languages
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/providing-resources#AlternativeResources
You can create different values-xx folder to support different languages!
Hope this can help you!
I am writing an app in which I have to support all Indian languages and for that I am looking for some third party library (free or paid)
I googled many times for the same but I did not get any decent option (library)
I just got use strings.xml for (English, Hindi) in their respective folders.
But I have seen in Whatsapp there is a multilanguage option, which supports almost all major indian languages
For an Example : If I do select Hindi language, so it translates complete app in Hindi language only
Same kind of functionality, I need in my app, like in drop down, If user do tap on any of the Indian language, my app has to converted in same one only (Like: Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati and others)
What would be the best way of doing this and getting it done?
It depends what do you mean by "support"
Android supports all Indic languages. But it is not localized in all them.
Because of that, some of them cannot be selected from Settings.
But if you can provide string.xml files for all of them, and put them in the proper values-xy folder.
Possible problems:
How to select a language that the OS does not support? Have your own language selection. Once a locale is selected, call Locale.setDefault (to change the formatters), and change the resource loading configuration (Set Locale programmatically)
You see squares. This means missing fonts. Android has fonts for all the Indic scripts. But older phones might miss some. And OEMs might remove some to reduce size. So you can embed the proper Noto fonts in your application and use them (https://www.google.com/get/noto/). Use styles, and have language specific style sheets.
Keyboard missing. Install one. Here is the Google one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.inputmethod.hindi. But there are also third party ones, for instance https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.smc.inputmethod.indic
I'm currently working on an app, which will be used (hopefully) by various tourist to my city. as such, i would like to complement as many languages as i can, and i have the appropriate translators to do so. I've read and started to implement the various different resources in the res folder, i already have some translated, i have a folder for each language as described in the guide from google.
How do I make the app initiate as non-English language in my phone while testing? for example Spanish. every time i run it, it's always English, and i would like to see that the app also works in the other languages, but i can't find anywhere how to initiate it.
I realize I might be simply overlooking something basic.
Thanks.
The language of the app is based on the system language. You need to change the language in Settings -> Language & input.
Change phone language from Settings->Language & input
If you use a physico-chimiques devices you have to change the languages of your device
If you use a emulator I think you can set the language on the creation.
If your tester have a android with spanish language, the app will be automatically on spanish. (if you create a filé string.xml in a values-es folder)
My learning app requires displaying Korean, English and Chinese. One solution I have is to embed a Korean/English font and a Chinese font. Then put together a string with different TextFormats.
The thing is, I'm positive that IOS and Android devices should contain native Chinese, Korean and English fonts already, and I'd much rather refer to and use those fonts instead of packing them.
I tried detecting fonts by using Font.enumerateFonts(true), but when I use font.hasGlyphs('你'), I don't get a true, or anything, so I don't know how to choose the proper device font.
If that doesn't work, is there a font that contains all of those Characters? Or maybe a font-builder program that'd allow me to customize a font to include
This was something that I wrote sometime back
http://blogs.adobe.com/airodynamics/2012/08/21/supporting-languages-with-unicode-characters/
Hopefully it helps you
You can always know the name of font specific to the language. May be this http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5878.
Now based on the language you want to show just change the value of font in the statement format.font and the correct language should come up.
I do understand that Android device still doesn't support complex hindi conjuncts drawing, though we set the textView typeface to a commonly used hindi font (mangal.ttf or DroidHindi.ttf).
One of the Ex:
1st 2nd Conjunct
प् र = प्र
"प्र" is been shown as...प् र { list of frequently used conjuncts - link)
What I would be interested to know is - Though android devices(I am using Galaxy-SII, os2.3) doesn't support it yet, is there a workaround for this?
Similar questions (but no workaround yet):
Android: unable to show correct hindi words
How can i show HIndi text in Android Tablet
For the question-2: #Sahaja does mention that android device doesn't support hindi complex conjuncts drawing. So does it mean that we won't be able to do anything in this regard until android adds the support for it or can we have a feasible workaround?
One workaround, which I can think of:
Convert the whole hindi database into a custom non-unicode format & use a non-unicode font (like kiran.ttf - link) to display it. This sounds like too much of effort, not sure if this is a feasible solution (not tried it yet - kept as last option) or something else would also work?
Please let me know, your thoughts on the same.
(Note: This problem has nothing to do with what custom hindi font I use or is it ttf or otf.)
Thanks,
Shibbs
I have recently been through the same problem but unfortunately didn't find any solution. I agree that some of the text won't appear properly i.e. some of it may appear misplaced characters. If you try running it on device that is 3.0 or above (I am unsure of below 3.0), then you should be able to see it properly. Or try choosing en emulator with higher which has more than 4.0.