[smc-discuss] Announcing Android client for SILPA dictionary service.

[ashik salahudeen]

The News
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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
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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
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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
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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