What is "Sinhala Epistle"?
Sinhala Epistle is a SMS application developed to run on android 2.1 and above platforms.It can handle all your SMS messages in sinhala language including read inbox messages in Sinhala and Send messages in Sinhala. It has the access to your default inbox and display mesaages in sinhala.
Sinhala On Android?
Recently Android became the most popular operating system for mobile devices. But unfortunately as Sri Lankans we were unable to experience Sinhala on Android based devices.
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| This is how the text is originally displayed in android applications. |
The problem we faced while developing the application was it was really hard to render sinhala words correctly. Though we were able to introduce sinhala into application level(Not the browser level) In earlier versions we faced difficulties in rendering problems. We saw Dhanika has developed a font and a algorithm to render sinhala in a web browser called SETT.
Using the font and the algorithm used in SETT browser we finally able to put up an SMS application with full functionality to all SMS needs in application level.
Here are some of the screen shots of Sinhala Epistle Application.
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Start Application |
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| Compose new SMS |
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| Received a new sms |
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| Quick reply option |
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| Quick reply is sent |
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| Access the inbox read messages in sinhala |
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| Sinhala view of inbox messages |
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| Option to enable Sinhala preview |
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| Singlish word map |
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Features in our application
* English to Sinhala (singlish) Translation with proper rendering * Send SMS in sinhala * Receive SMS in Sinhala * Read inbox in Sinhala * Quick reply Option
Download Application Mediafire Link
Future Work
In future we are focusing to touch the system level and put sinhala on future android releases. Hope you enjoy the application and your comments are warmly welcome....
Developed by
Aruna Sujith Karunarathna
Kalindu Nawarathna
