Once you have rooted your shiny new Nexus One, you may want to add support for Arabic fonts if you frequently read websites published in Arabic. This support isn’t built into the US version of the Nexus One which released on January 5th, but will likely be included in any version shipping in the Middle East (upon release there).
In order to manually add support for Arabic, just follow these steps.
- Root your Nexus One (this will void your warranty on the phone, proceed with caution).
- Download Arabic font files zip file (already renamed properly), and extract it to somewhere easy to get to like C:\ if using Windows.
- Make sure you have downloaded and installed the Android SDK.
- Connect the Nexus One to your computer, and open a command prompt.
- Push the Arabic fonts to /system/fonts/ using the following commands in ADB:
adb remount
adb push DroidSans.ttf /system/fonts/
adb push DroidsSans-Bold.ttf /system/fonts/
adb push DroidSansFallback.ttf /system/fonts/ - Download libwebcore.so.android20, which is compiled to enable the browser to properly display Arabic. You can get it here or at the source from the “arabicandroid” project.
- Rename the file to libwebcore.so
- With your N1 still connected to your computer, from the command prompt, push it to your phone with the following commands in ADB:
adb remount
adb push libwebcore.so /system/lib/
adb shell reboot
That’s it. Pretty simple, really. Enjoy!
thanks alot man .. was really searching for it … but can it work in the HTC desire??? with android 2.1 in it ???