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

[Shyju Kanaprath]

Installed on my HTC Wildfire.. Works good !
search retrieve time is bit slow.,(may be  it depends on mobile CPU power &
Internet speed).
What about a new logo instead of the Android default logo.
Good work. Cheers Rajiv !

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 3:33 PM, ashik salahudeen <aashiks at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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-- 
*Regards,
Shyju*
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