Android and Indic Languages

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Devices running Android <4.2 often fail to render many Indic scripts; Android 4.2’s new shaping engine and bundled fonts fix many but manufacturers and old OS versions reintroduce breakage. The team ships Indic Keyboard (≈300,000 downloads) and an open-source SDK libindic (formerly silpa) that produces a demo APK, does transliteration from English, and builds frequency dictionaries from Wikipedia dumps; transliteration and rendering work but OEM font support and per‑device testing remain the biggest blockers.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 5:31Challenges
3. 6:38Firefox OS Keyboard
4. 13:42How to contribute
5. 17:29use cases

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