my programming journey

Nias faces, Gunungsitoli 4 Dec 2013 (Private collection) One year ago I started working on the Nias keyboard. Along the way I learned that creating a dictionary is the first step. So I started my endeavour to create Nias dictionary that I could use for Android keyboard and for desktop PC. I managed to collect almost 10,000 words, which I compiled for Nias Keyboard module. However the work is still continuing to improve the dictionary. While working on collecting more words, I have started hunting for information about the spelling and grammar rules. So I have been working on hunspell package for Nias dictionary. The project progress can be seen on Nias Language Project repository on my github page. But I think I can't do this on my own, other Nias developers are needed. So I put everything on github at  https://github.com/sslaia/nias_language_project  for everyone to fork or to review and contribute. I hope to be able to find other Nias developers, who are passion...

Nias Keyboard in action Nias Keyboard add-on app was my first ever Android code writing exercise. It's the Nias language pack for the AnySoftKeyboard. One thing I didn't realise when I started the project was that it would take me months working on the project. Writing the Android codes maybe involve a lot of trial and error. However the biggest challenge was actualy creating the language dictionary. It took me months to figure out how to do that. I needed to learn how to collect words by scrapping the web and searching my PC documents and how to create word frequency list, something that has nothing to do with Android at all. But it's worth the effort. I compared the word prediction accuracy of Nias language with that of Indonesian, and I was surprised. You would likely to get the right next word in Nias than in Indonesian! I even compared its word prediction accuracy with that of SwifKey's Nias language module. And again to my surprise Nias Keyboard got ...