Jacob Nordfalk <[email protected]> writes: > During Google Summer of Code we had two great students working hard to > enable Apertium into the mobile world: > > - Mikel Artetxe did a great job making lttoolbox-java embeddable, > spinning off a lot of good stuff, such as Apertium-Caffeine and a > one-click installer for trying out language pairs > > - Arink Verma wrote an Apertium Android app using lttoolbox-java, that > allows the user to do off-line, in-phone translation using Apertium > > > As could and should be expected after any GSoC where was work left to > do. > > In this case the app was suffering from memory constraint problems; in > Android you are allowed to use down to 16MB of RAM, a situation that > needed to be handled properly before it would work properly across all > devices. Those of you that tested the previous versions can confirm > that. > After the GSoC I have been continuing optimizing, simplifying and > unifying the code and I am proud to present a fresh version of > lttoolbox-java that can run on a very tiny amount of RAM and which is > faster than ever, deployed in the world's first open source offline, > embedded in-device machine translation system, as an Android app. > > Download and install it from here: > https://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/builds/apertium-android/ > > The app has been tested and runs on Android 1.6 and later. > I would like to ask every one with an Android phone to install this > app and jugde if there are any things that needs to be done before we > publish it. > (You have to enable 'install from unknown sources' first and uninstall > previous versions)
Oh, another thing: I just noticed that I can mark text in e.g. the web browser, long-click and "Share" with Apertium to put it into the translator. This is really useful, would it be a good idea to tell about that method as a first-run popup? -- Kevin Brubeck Unhammer GPG: 0x766AC60C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
