As the team behind the project grows it becomes useful to document how things are done. This post reviews how we provide both an English and a Spanish user interface. The app is built in Dart and Flutter. Flutter is an application framework supporting smartphones especially well. Application frameworks provide many features, one of them …
The Ancient Maya App converts text input as a Maya transcription written in latin letters to a glyph block transliteration. Here’s what it looks like if the user types “otoot” and presses the “Convert” button: This process requires several steps. Below is a description of the steps followed by a specific example. First, each input …
Tommy and I are working on a new feature that’s based Tommy’s earlier work while in Mérida. It will allow users to type in a word and convert it to a glyph block. For example, the user might enter “otoot” which is the ancient Mayan word for home. The app would then try to convert …
How do highly syllabic languages work on smartphones today? This is a bigger research effort than I have time for right now so I asked ChatGPT. This post begins with ChatGPT 4’s summary, suggested videos, and then a more detailed breakdown. The videos highlight system level custom keyboard implementations for syllabic languages including Japanese, Korean …
A new release of the Ancient Maya App is available for iOS and Android. Release 2.4.0 allows the user to change the Long Count calendar origin date. It defaults to August 11, 3114 BC. Just click on the origin to change it. You can choose any date for the origin between -3200BC and -3100BC. This release will …
A feature that needs to be added to the app is a trilingual dictionary – classic Maya, Spanish, and English. Currently, the dictionary in the app includes about 600 entries in classic Maya and English. These entries are from Kettunen and Helmke’s 2020 dictionary (used with permission). Una característica que debe ser añadido a la …
A new release of the Ancient Maya App is available for iOS and Android. This release, 2.3.1, doesn’t add any new features. The source code has been cleaned up to make it easier for Tommy to work with. Also, this release should fix any problems with the Android App Store delivering an old version. There …
Steve and Tommy walked through the app’s code and talked about app development for about an hour. Tommy will set up an app development environment on his Windows laptop. This is non-trivial. The app’s source code resides in a cloud-based repository called GitHub. One must create an account on GitHub and from there fork the …
Hello there! This is Tommy, with his very first blog post. I was introduced to Steve and Deb recently through Karla (my old spanish professor and a very good friend). We have decided to work together on a new function for the Ancient Mayan App. This feature will act as a complimentary second half to …
Within the last week, we’ve had two very informative Zoom sessions with Maya educators and community organizers in Mexico and the U.S. We demonstrated the Ancient Maya App, and discussed how it can be used and expanded. One of the suggestions is that the app provide a full Spanish interface. Currently, only some menus are …