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I was recently developing an android application where I wanted to display kannada text in the TextView. I went through this link, now the problem is the glyphs(character sequence) are not rendered/interpreted properly. I also found this discussion pretty usefull . Now my question is - "Is it possible to integrate a layout/shaping engine (responsible for rendering the text properly) in an application.

Any help in this regard would be helpful.

Thanks !!

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What version of Android are you targeting? Pre-2.3 Android has very poor support for any Indian language whatsoever. 2.3 introduced support for Hindi, but Dravidian languages are still missing. Based on this fact is my hunch that Android 2.3 and later probably might render Kannada text better.

Also, emulators have known issues with text rendering in some languages. I suggest testing on a real device.

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  • I'm developing on my hTC phone which runs on android 2.3 and it has the same rendering problems... – swik Aug 24 '11 at 10:41
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Use Bitmap fonts and your own rendering engine till Android supports

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  • @swik, can you please describe your solution. I am facing a similar issue. Check thi question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16455923/kannada-font-on-android-ics – Karthik Andhamil May 09 '13 at 21:53
  • @swik Can you share How to make use of bitmap fonts? any example would be grateful! thank you!! – LOG_TAG Jan 28 '15 at 07:54