I’m happy to announce a new Android app called “Manglish”, it’s an app to convert Malayalam text to Manglish. It’s a GNU GPL v3 licensed completely free software app with no ads thanks to the donors. Kept it as light as possible.

You can download & install it in many ways :

Updates

• 2021 May: Version 7 released with new On Screen Button feature.

• 2020 August: App has reached 5000 active installs.

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If you want to just get plainly the architecture of system like “arm” or “x86” in your apps, then this post is just for you.

So with this function that I’m gonna present, you will get 3 values, “arm”, “mips” or “x86” whether or not the system is 32 bit or 64 bit.

Here is the function :

public static String getArch() {
  String arch = System.getProperty("os.arch").substring(0, 3).toLowerCase();
  if (arch.equals("aar") || arch.equals("arm")) {
    return "arm";
  }else if(arch.equals("mip")){
    return "mips";
  }else{
    return arch;
  }
}

Just call it statically if it’s under a class :