Sep 20, 2010

iPhone Dhivehi Quran Translation

After much hacking away at the iPhone's file system over the last two days, I've finally managed to get Unicode thaana stuff to display properly on the iPhone iOS 4.x

THE BAD NEWS is that people using older 2G iphones running 3.x firmware are still outta luck on the unicode front. I'm working on it though...

anyway as a by product of the aforementioned success, I've managed to put together a little hack that'll add the Dhivehi translation of the Quran (as found on http://presidencymaldives.gov.mv/quran ) into the alQuran app from alMubin.com

the package will be available from afxals cydia repo at m0bi.com/cydia so just add that up and you'll be good to go. also depends on afxals thaana package for iOS, and erica utilities. Also you'll need to have alQuran installed. *if you needed me to tell you that then....well...what the hell..?*

here are some screenshots of it in action! (I KNOW that the text appears on the wrong side...I CAN fix it I just chose not to for reasons of...elegance lets say)

on the licensing side, since this will inevitably "mix" with non-free code, I am releasing it under GNULesser/LGPL




Now if you're curious on how I got the "dhivehi" to appear on the keyboard selection popup ... well let's just say I'm working on it.

 

18 Comments:

//Sub/Corpus said...

good work !!!
and nice blog theme :)

SoE said...

Heheh yea I'm going to change it sometime :P it's quite nice isn't it hehe. Btw the packages should be up soon.

Anonymous said...

Great work man, thanks

Mohamed Malik said...

Saabahey thiyakuree hiyyvarah

SoE said...

Thank you thank you. btw @subcorpus: how's this design for a change?

Anonymous said...

Thanks man, you did a great work :)

Anonymous said...

Dose it works on iQuran pro

Anonymous said...

Jazaakallah Khayran(May Allah Reward You with Goodness)....When r we gonna get updates for IOS 4.2.1 ...:) ?

Anonymous said...

Please work it out for IOS 3.1.3. I would appreciate.

Anonymous said...

i have been following your post for a very long time hoping that you would develop the translation for IOS 3 devices. pls pls

Anonymous said...

its not compatible to iOS 6.1

Farhan said...

How to download this app for iphone 5?

SoE said...

Anon:I can only get it to work in iOS 4+ due to issues with thaana.

Farhan: you can install alquran and then the tweak from cydia. It should be available on a few repos. I am no longer actively working on this..

Anonymous said...

many errors pls fix it

sub-process/bin/bzip2 returned an error code(2)
failed to fetch http:/m0bi.com

SoE said...

this was released ages ago, and is no longer actively supported by me.

learn quran online said...

Jazak Allah

Quran Academy Live said...

Great work,, keep it up

Azam Farish said...

Thaana keyboard for iOS 8 is now available for download.

Dhivehi Keyboard for iOS 8
https://appsto.re/us/NMup4.i

Post a Comment