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

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