I want to show the Reginonal language(Gurumukhi) in my Android app

Question

I want the output as shown in below image

This is a Sikh holy book which

Answer 1

Update Since you want to use via XML Your layout.xml should be like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
     >

    <com.nannu.NanTV
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/book"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" 

        />

</LinearLayout>

and string.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>


    <string name="book"><![CDATA[jpujI swihb\\<> siq nwmu krqw purKu inrBau inrvYruAkwl mUriq AjUnI sYBM gur pRswid ]] jpu ]Awid scu jugwid scu ]hY BI scu nwnk hosI BI scu ]1]socY soic n hoveI jy socI lK vwr ]cupY cup n hoveI jy lwie rhw ilv qwr ]BuiKAw BuK n auqrI jy bMnw purIAw Bwr ]shs isAwxpw lK hoih q iek n clY nwil ]ikv sicAwrw hoeIAY ikv kUVY qutY pwil ]hukim rjweI clxw nwnk iliKAw nwil ]1]hukmI hovin Awkwr hukmu n kihAw jweI ]hukmI hovin]]></string>
</resources>

Hello Extend your textview

package com.nannu;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Typeface;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class NanTV extends TextView{

    private Context c;
    public NanTV(Context c) {
        super(c);
        this.c = c;
        Typeface tfs = Typeface.createFromAsset(c.getAssets(),
                "font/bulara_5.ttf");
        setTypeface(tfs);

    }
    public NanTV(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        this.c = context;
        Typeface tfs = Typeface.createFromAsset(c.getAssets(),
                "font/bulara_5.ttf");
        setTypeface(tfs);
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
    }

    public NanTV(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        this.c = context;
        Typeface tfs = Typeface.createFromAsset(c.getAssets(),
                "font/bulara_5.ttf");
        setTypeface(tfs);

    }


}

Now Your layout.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
     >

    <com.nannu.NanTV
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Large Text"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" 

        />

</LinearLayout>

Activity

package com.nannu;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class NanDempoActivity extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        NanTV nan = (NanTV)findViewById(R.id.textView1);
        nan.setText("jpujI swihb<> siq nwmu krqw purKu inrBau inrvYruAkwl mUriq AjUnI sYBM gur pRswid ]] jpu ]Awid scu jugwid scu ]hY BI scu nwnk hosI BI scu ]1]socY soic n hoveI jy socI lK vwr ]cupY cup n hoveI jy lwie rhw ilv qwr ]BuiKAw BuK n auqrI jy bMnw purIAw Bwr ]shs isAwxpw lK hoih q iek n clY nwil ]ikv sicAwrw hoeIAY ikv kUVY qutY pwil ]hukim rjweI clxw nwnk iliKAw nwil ]1]hukmI hovin Awkwr hukmu n kihAw jweI ]hukmI hovin");
    }
}

Answer 2

It seems that you are trying to use a privately-encoded 8-bit font for Gurmukhi letters, i.e. a font with code number range 0..255 with each number mapped to a character according to some font-dependent convention, not by any standard encoding.

Consider using Unicode (UTF-8) and a Unicode-encoded font instead.

Answer 3

I have made some changes in xml keep in mind that changes are required.

I have made an data.xml in asset folder the xml is as look like as shown below

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <book1>
    <page1>&#60;&#62; siq nwmu krqw purKu inrBau inrvYru
    Akwl mUriq AjUnI sYBM gur pRswid ]
                    ] jpu ]
             Awid scu jugwid scu ]
      hY BI scu nwnk hosI BI scu ]1]
     socY soic n hoveI jy socI lK vwr ]
    cupY cup n hoveI jy lwie rhw ilv qwr ]
    BuiKAw BuK n auqrI jy bMnw purIAw Bwr ]
   shs isAwxpw lK hoih q iek n clY nwil ]
   ikv sicAwrw hoeIAY ikv kUVY qutY pwil ]
   hukim rjweI clxw nwnk iliKAw nwil ]1]
  hukmI hovin Awkwr hukmu n kihAw jweI ]
  hukmI hovin jIA hukim imlY vifAweI ]
  hukmI auqmu nIcu hukim iliK duK suK pweIAih ]
  ieknw hukmI bKsIs ieik hukmI sdw BvweIAih ]
  hukmY AMdir sBu ko bwhir hukm n koie ]
  nwnk hukmY jy buJY q haumY khY n koie ]2]
  gwvY ko qwxu hovY iksY qwxu ]</page1>
  </book1>

after that see my StudyParser.class as shown below

  import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
  import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
  import java.io.IOException;
  import java.io.InputStream;
  import java.io.InputStreamReader;
  import java.io.StringReader;
  import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
  import java.net.MalformedURLException;

  import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
  import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
  import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

  import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
  import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
  import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
  import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
  import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
  import org.w3c.dom.Document;
  import org.w3c.dom.Element;
  import org.w3c.dom.Node;
  import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
  import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
  import org.xml.sax.SAXException;



  public class StudyParser {
public StudyParser() {

}

public final static Document XMLfromString(String xml){
     Document doc = null;

        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        dbf.setCoalescing(true);
            try {

          DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();

          InputSource is = new InputSource();
              is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xml));
              doc = db.parse(is); 

        } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
          System.out.println("XML parse error: " + e.getMessage());
          return null;
        } catch (SAXException e) {
          System.out.println("Wrong XML file structure: " + e.getMessage());
                return null;
        } catch (IOException e) {
          System.out.println("I/O exeption: " + e.getMessage());
          return null;
        }

            return doc;

  }
public static String getXMLstring(String xml){   
      String line = null;

      try {

        DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(xml);

        HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
        HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
        line = EntityUtils.toString(httpEntity);

      } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        line = "<results status=\"error\"><msg>Can't connect to server</msg></results>";
      } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        line = "<results status=\"error\"><msg>Can't connect to server</msg></results>";
      } catch (IOException e) {
        line = "<results status=\"error\"><msg>Can't connect to server</msg></results>";
      }

      return line;

  }
public static String getXML(InputStream is)throws IOException {

    BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);
    ByteArrayOutputStream buf = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    int result = bis.read();
    while(result != -1) {
      byte b = (byte)result;
      buf.write(b);
      result = bis.read();
    }        
    return buf.toString();
}
public final static String getElementValue( Node elem ) {
       Node kid;
       if( elem != null){
           if (elem.hasChildNodes()){
               for( kid = elem.getFirstChild(); kid != null; kid = kid.getNextSibling() ){
                   if( kid.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE  ){
                       return kid.getNodeValue();
                   }

               }
           }
       }
       return "";
   }
 public static int numResults(Document doc){    
        Node results = doc.getDocumentElement();
        int res = -1;

        try{
          res = Integer.valueOf(results.getAttributes().getNamedItem("Categories").getNodeValue());
        }catch(Exception e ){
          res = -1;
        }

        return res;
      }

      public static String getValue(Element item, String str) {    
        NodeList n = item.getElementsByTagName(str);    
        return StudyParser.getElementValue(n.item(0));
      }


}

after code in my activity is as shown below

 TextView txt;
 try{
 txt = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tv); 
 String   xml= StudyParser.getXML(getAssets().open("data.xml"));    

   Document doc = StudyParser.XMLfromString(xml);
  NodeList n = doc.getElementsByTagName("book1");
 Element eid = (Element) n.item(0);
String Js=StudyParser.getValue(eid, "page1");
 Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),"bulara_5.ttf");
 txt.setTypeface(tf);
 txt.setText(Js);
   }catch(Exception e){
 Log.e("error",e.toString());
   }