xpi files linked here, since an xpi file is just a renamed zip file. My own modified source code is available in the. (The source code on which this is based is to be found at. I have put this together using the freely available SBL Greek font which renders Greek beautifully. These can be constructed from a basic extension developed by Mathieu Pellerin to enable Khmer fonts. But there is a way to install fonts on Firefox for Android, by means of extensions. There are some excellent sites for reading Koine and Classical Greek such as and /greek, which, since Firefox for Android is ,as it comes out of the box, unable to render lots of the polytonic letters. Details of this can be found online.īut internet browsers mostly don’t work with the flipfont.
One particular Bible app, AndBible has a font framework which allows you to use any font you choose within the app, even to the point of being able to attach specific fonts to specific Bibles, although there is a problem with the Hebrew fonts. Examples: Tertius (the best free offline Greek and Hebrew Bible reader available for free), Bible Lexicon, Olive Tree Bible, Cadrebible, Remember me, Ankidroid etc. Many apps use a font framework, which although not always open to alteration, it facilitates complex fonts and fonts otherwise unsupported by the Android system. But for those of us who are not brave enough to root our expensive electronic gadgets, here are a couple of helps.įirst of all if you have a Samsung Galaxy Series phone, or any other phone/tablet that has the flipfont system installed, all you have to do to get polytonic greek on most apps is install a suitable flipfont, such as Tahoma, via the Fontomizer app. This is a challenge for many people who have android phones and tablets, unless of course they have rooted devices, on which it is not a problem. Filed under: Information Technology, Language, Links, NT Greek, Technology | Tags: Android, apps, Firefox entensions, Firefox for Android, fonts, fonts on Android, Greek Bible, Hebrew Bible, phone, polytonic Greek, solution for android problem, tablet
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