International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) on Tuesday released its Indic Language Keyboards for Android at the inaugural session of the two-day workshop on Free Mobile Platforms here.
The Indic Language Keyboards were released by B Ramani, executive director, Centre for Development and Advance Computing at Travancore Hall at Technopark.
The keyboard layout for Android, developed jointly by ICFOSS and Jishnu Mohan of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing - a 13-year-old community that is working to produce local language technology for Indic languages - under the R&D programme of Dept of IT, Govt of India.
The keyboard layout, which is freely downloadable from app repositories with the name ‘Indic Keyboard,’ provides support to input text of any Android device in 15 languages and 35 keyboard layouts, consisting of most of the Indian official languages as well as Sinhalese and Nepali.
The two-day workshop brought together about 100 developers, students and professionals in the domains of mobile computing and language localization that highlighted the emerging free technological developments - particularly, Free/Open Mobile Platforms and localization tools - in the domain of mobile and tablet computing.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.smc.inputmethod.indic
ICFOSS releases Indic language keyboards - The Hindu
The Indic Language Keyboards were released by B Ramani, executive director, Centre for Development and Advance Computing at Travancore Hall at Technopark.
The keyboard layout for Android, developed jointly by ICFOSS and Jishnu Mohan of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing - a 13-year-old community that is working to produce local language technology for Indic languages - under the R&D programme of Dept of IT, Govt of India.
The keyboard layout, which is freely downloadable from app repositories with the name ‘Indic Keyboard,’ provides support to input text of any Android device in 15 languages and 35 keyboard layouts, consisting of most of the Indian official languages as well as Sinhalese and Nepali.
The two-day workshop brought together about 100 developers, students and professionals in the domains of mobile computing and language localization that highlighted the emerging free technological developments - particularly, Free/Open Mobile Platforms and localization tools - in the domain of mobile and tablet computing.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.smc.inputmethod.indic
ICFOSS releases Indic language keyboards - The Hindu
