Arabic language in android

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android still not fully support Arabic language even in last version 2.3 and maybe not in 3.0 also

any way i am programmer if i want to make it Arabic support how to start to make it fully support Arabic ?

because i found some the companies like Samsung and HTC add fully Arabic support to there devices this mean every body if he has a good knowledge with the system can add support.

Follow this helpful [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7962704/how-to-support-arabic-text-in-android/7962813#7962813) and enjoy! There is a complete description of problem and an algorithm as its solution. — Bob, Nov 01 '11 at 08:15

Afriza N. Arief · Answer 1 · 2011-05-21T10:41:30.700

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Android 3.0 Honeycomb has official native support for Arabic.

source: xda-developers, http://bit.ly/honeycomb-arabic , ArDroid

As for smart phones, CyanogenMod 7 has decent Arabic support.

edited May 21 '11 at 10:41

answered Jan 28 '11 at 23:02

Afriza N. Arief

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 02 '11 at 05:37

If you want arabic on your Android device you can use CyanogenMod 7 based on Android gingerbread(2.3) they use arabic shaper in their rom soyou can read arabic everywhere and in the latest version of cyanogen they added an arabic keyboard.

Companies like HTC and samsaung... made special arabic room for devices exported to MEA , but It does not supported well, arabic OTA updates doesn't come 90%.

Maher Abuthraa · Answer 3 · 2015-09-01T17:15:42.857

You can use Alefonizer .. its a lib renders arabic characters in android devices that dont support Arabic

here is a smaple

package org.alefon.com;


import www.alefon.com.alefonizerArarbic.AlfnFixText;
import www.alefon.com.alefonizerArarbic.AlfnLining;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.ViewTreeObserver;
import android.view.ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener;
import android.widget.TextView;



public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    private TextView tv;
private AlfnFixText alfntx;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);  
        alfntx = new AlfnFixText(true); 
        tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tx); 
        String text = "قال ابن رشد:الله ليمكن ٔان يعطينا عقول ويعطينا شرأيع مخالفة لها";   

        tv.setText(text); 

        ViewTreeObserver vto = tv.getViewTreeObserver(); 
        vto.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() { 
            @Override
            public void onGlobalLayout() {

                AlfnLining alflining = new AlfnLining();
                String rlines = alflining.getTextLines(tv.getWidth(),
                        tv.getPaint(), tv.getText().toString(), true);
                if (rlines != null) {
                    String lli[] = rlines.split("\n");
                    String fn = "";
                    for (String st : lli) {

                        try {
                            st = alfntx.getFixedText(st);
                        } catch (Exception e) {

                            e.printStackTrace();
                        }
                        fn += st + "\n";
                    }
                    tv.setText(fn);
                }
                ViewTreeObserver obs = tv.getViewTreeObserver();
                obs.removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);
            }
        });
    }

}

Just remember that you would need to use a font that contains Arabic character & OTL for Arabic ..i.e. Arial ..

====== update =======

Android studio use UTF-8 as file encoding.. but you can change it see screenshot:

Good luck,

Which UTF have to use for android studio to support arabic in android studio ? — Anand Savjani, Sep 01 '15 at 05:53

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 21 '10 at 10:42

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I found a couple projects which attempt that, maybe you could look at those and see what exactly needs to be done

https://sites.google.com/a/ut.utm.edu/arabic-android/

answered Dec 21 '10 at 10:42

Alexander Stolz

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