Sunday, 16 June 2013

Tamil Localization in Android ( Display Tamil Font )

Demo:
 

1)MainActivity.java:

package com.venky.displaytamilfont;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.Typeface;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

      @Override
      protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

            TextView tvTamil = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tvTamil);
            TextView tvEnglish = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tvEnglish);

            tvEnglish.setText("In English\n" + "Welcome");

            Typeface faceAkshar = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),
                        "akshar.ttf");

            tvTamil.setTypeface(faceAkshar);

            tvTamil.setText("In Tamil\n" + "நல்வரவு");
      }
}


2)activity_main.xml:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="#5F04B4"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tvEnglish"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="51dp"
        android:text="text1"
        android:textColor="#ffffff"
        android:textSize="20dp" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tvTamil"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/tvEnglish"
        android:layout_below="@+id/tvEnglish"
        android:layout_marginTop="66dp"
        android:text="text2"
        android:textColor="#ffffff"
        android:textSize="20dp"
        android:textStyle="bold" />

</RelativeLayout>


3)TTF File:

 Download akshar.ttf file and put into asset folder.
To Download akshar.ttf file Click Here
 
4)Download this code Click Here

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