<div dir="ltr">Installed on my HTC Wildfire.. Works good ! <br>search retrieve time is bit slow.,(may be it depends on mobile CPU power & Internet speed). <br>What about a new logo instead of the Android default logo.<br>
Good work. Cheers Rajiv !<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 3:33 PM, ashik salahudeen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aashiks@gmail.com">aashiks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
The News<br>
=======<br>
<br>
Rajiv wrote an Android 2.2 client for looking up meaning of words<br>
using Silpa dictionary service ( <a href="http://silpa.org.in/Dictionary" target="_blank">http://silpa.org.in/Dictionary</a> ). It<br>
currently supports only the English-Malayalam and English-Hindi<br>
dictionaries though, but works well enough for daily usage.<br>
<br>
Yes - you can read the meanings in Malayalam even though Android 2.2<br>
doesn't support Malayalam rendering.<br>
<br>
Rajiv's blog post :<br>
<a href="http://www.rajivnair.in/2011/03/announcing-silpa-indic-languages.html" target="_blank">http://www.rajivnair.in/2011/03/announcing-silpa-indic-languages.html</a><br>
My blog : <a href="http://aashiks.in/blog/?p=182" target="_blank">http://aashiks.in/blog/?p=182</a><br>
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Install<br>
====<br>
<br>
An APK is available at<br>
<br>
<a href="http://aashiks.in/SilpaDictionary.apk" target="_blank">http://aashiks.in/SilpaDictionary.apk</a><br>
<a href="https://github.com/rajivnair/Silpa-Dictionary-Android-client/blob/master/Silpa%20Dictionary.apk" target="_blank">https://github.com/rajivnair/Silpa-Dictionary-Android-client/blob/master/Silpa%20Dictionary.apk</a><br>
<br>
Install it by browsing the site through your phone and clicking on the<br>
link or by downloading the APK into your phone's storage and opening<br>
it from the phone.<br>
<br>
Please report bugs at : <a href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/silpa/" target="_blank">https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/silpa/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
How it works<br>
=========<br>
<br>
It uses SILPA project's dictionary service to retrieve meanings as<br>
rendered images. Internally, the dictionary module makes use of the<br>
Script rendering module (which is still under development) to generate<br>
an image of the word's meaning.<br>
Hack<br>
<br>
The code for the android client is available in Rajiv's Github :<br>
<a href="https://github.com/rajivnair/Silpa-Dictionary-Android-client" target="_blank">https://github.com/rajivnair/Silpa-Dictionary-Android-client</a><br>
<br>
Official SILPA code repo is available at <a href="http://gitorious.org/silpa/silpa" target="_blank">http://gitorious.org/silpa/silpa</a><br>
<br>
Credits<br>
=====<br>
<br>
Android client written by Rajiv R Nair, long time SMC member,<br>
co-author of Freedom Toaster software, fellow FOSS enthusiast<br>
<br>
Vasudev Kamath ( <a href="http://vasudevkamath.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://vasudevkamath.blogspot.com/</a> ) , contributor<br>
and maintainer of SILPA project, for advice and help in committing<br>
and pushing code to Silpa server.<br>
<br>
Santhosh Thottingal ( <a href="http://thottingal.in" target="_blank">http://thottingal.in</a> ) , founder of SILPA<br>
project and long time SMC contributor, for constant support and<br>
advice.<br>
<br>
Anish NL ( <a href="http://www.aneeshnl.co.cc" target="_blank">http://www.aneeshnl.co.cc</a> ) SMC member, FOSS lover, fixed<br>
a showstopper bug in the SILPA dictionary module<br>
<br>
Ashik Salahudeen (<a href="http://aashiks.in/blog" target="_blank">http://aashiks.in/blog</a> ) - wrote a few lines of<br>
code in SILPA to hook together the existing modules on server side to<br>
make Rajiv's job easier.<br>
<br>
<br>
Do download and test :)<br>
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aashik<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Regards, <br>Shyju</b></div><br>
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