Does android in eclipse emulator support hindi fonts? I see Square boxes like
☐ instead of characters अ आ इ ई उ ऊ on Emulator and on Unicode or UTF8 compliant
Hindi websites. Any settings for solving the issue?
This might help you
use custom TrueType fonts by copying the .ttf file into your projects's 'assets' folder.
Then in your application you can use the font like this;
final Typeface customF = Typeface.createFromAsset(this.getAssets(), "custom.ttf");
final TextView textV = (TextView) findViewById(...);
textV.setTypeface(customF);
My hunt for Hindi font in my Android phone LG-P500),
I found some useful tips which I would like share with you all hindi lover. I tried it in opera mini and it is showing Hindi. I also trying hind keypad but still unable write hindi if anybody have any information please share it ..
Hindi reading method in opera mini
1 - First install latest version of "Opera Mini" on Android powered tablet or phone which is available free on Android Market. Otherwise go to official site of opera. (Read about Opera Mini & download)
2 - After that go to address bar & type opera:config and nothing should have www or http://.
3. Then come to the menu & at its end see "use bitmap fonts for complex scripts". No sentence will be written in front of. You change it to Yes.
4. Save it.
Now Open any Hindi site and see hindi font on your mobile / tablet instead of square font.
Your can try the following also…
Install Hindi font (including all Indian language) as system font - go this link:- http://android-bucket.blogspot.com/2011/07/hindi-font-installation-for-advance.html (Only for Advance users)
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I have developed an app which runs well on samsung tab, but the google translated kannada words are not rendered on micromax phone. What to do? Can't I embed the font itself in the app using typeface? Or should I root the device and install the system fonts explicitly?
Edit 1: Could anyone suggest a good kannada font that has been good?
If your app require special fonts, then embed it in your add and set later on using setTypeface().
I am trying to get the kannada font support for Android ICS. I rooted my Xperia Neo L phone which is running Android ICS 4.0.4 and installed Kannada font (Lohit-Kannada.ttf). I have also included the Lohit-Kannada font as family-set in fallback_fonts.xml in the framework. After that, I am able to see the kannada fonts render in browser but the complex script is not supported. Glyphs are not rendered in proper way, though it is just readable. Other indic languages like Tamil, Hindi, Bengali etc renders perfectly but my language is not rendering properly. Someone suggested me to go thru this blog. http://androidandsandu.blogspot.in/2011/12/how-to-add-indian-languages-to-android.html
But i'm not able to find out where to make those file changes. I mean where is that lohit-fonts directory, where is the android.mk file? I'm not able to find those folders or those files in my phone. Any help please?
The link you provided explains how to change the source code of a custom Android image to do what you want:
Prerequisites :
ICS (4.0.3) AOSP source code
...
so I guess it is not possible without building your own custom ROM.
I created an android phonegap application which displays information in multiple languages like Hindi, Fijian, etc. Hindi language content displays properly in properly in emulator but it is not working on actual android device. It displays a small square box.
I'll explain the steps:
I used web font converter and converted de.ttf, it generated 3 files.
I copied all theses files to folder named "font" in my project directory.
I added font-face in css.
I called the font-face in a div and added Hindi text.
Thanks in advance.
I am guessing Android emulator does not display Hindi font answer shows the issue.
Problem with Hindi keyboard on Android 2.3 emulator is another duplicate.
From what I understand the Hindi is not implemented fully in older phones. It likely works in your emulator due to your emulator's operating system version being higher than the phone. I suggest you change create a new emulator image with the same version as phone and test it. If it does not work on emulator then bump the OS version up until it does. This will have to be your apps minimum OS version.
If for some reason at the same version the text does display correctly, then something else is going on.
According to this Azerbaijani language is not supported by Android 2.2 - however they claim "Note: Android supports more locales than are listed above.".
So how it is actually ? Is there support for Azerbaijani language? Are there issues writing applicaiton which have to display text in Azerbaijani?
Try just writing a test application that just displays some Azerbaijani text in Unicode. If it looks right, then your Android device has a Unicode font that includes the characters used in Azerbaijani.
If the text is not rendered correctly, then your problem will be adding the right font. On Mac OS X you would just drag-and-drop a font file into the right folder, but on Android you will need it installed in the operating system's display server. That might not be possible if you want to run on handsets that are locked down by their manufacturer.
If the font isn't there, maybe you can find a good Open Source Unicode font for Azerbaijani. File a feature request with the Android developers to get the font into the next release of Android. Unfortunately you'll have to wait a long time and will only work with recent releases.
If you're really desperate and you're willing to go to a lot of effort, you could build a font rendering engine into your application. I don't think that has to be as hard as it sounds. Then you will be able to run on any Android release and you won't have to wait around for the handset manufacturers to pick up the response to your feature request.
Locale.getAvailableLocales()
That method returns an array of all supported locales.
I have local HTML files with hebrew text that I'm trying to display on a webview in the android emulator but I only get squares and not the actual text.
I guess it's got to do with fonts not being supported.
Is there any way to display non latin text on the emulator?
Thanks!
Hope this helps:
How To Setup Hebrew Font in Android Emulator
If it's simply an issue of missing fonts, you might try DejaVu fonts (http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php). I haven't tried it, but instructions for installing them on a phone (which should also work for the emulator) are here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=480964.