You have described pretty much what I think is needed to be done. Text
capture must be done at the lowest level so that it can span all the
applications. And so my next question is how can this be done? Is
there a low level api can the screen reader application can tap into
to retrieve the text
Instead of cursor position you might use the position where the screen
is touched, using dispatchTouchEvent(). For retrieving labels
(strings) of running programs you likely need to dig deep into
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=tree
while anything you would
Text from your own app or any running app? I think much effort has
been spent on preventing that one Android app can steal information
from another running app unless both were designed to communicate with
each other. You also cannot capture the screen bitmap for instance.
For screen-reader-like
http://code.google.com/p/eyes-free/
On Feb 10, 7:48 am, redmapleleaf redmaplel...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to develop an application to read the screen text for the
blind. Do you know if there is any way that I can read the text (word,
or line of text) under the cursor at any
well I was asking how one can pick up the text at any point on the
screen as the user move his finger about the screen, not the speech
generation. Once I could read the text into a buffer then the speech
generation can come next. However at this point I am not quite sure if
there is a way for me
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