Someone arriving from ganjoor.net had to infer from the credits that this is a
separate project. The About page now opens with it, before the licence list,
in all three interface languages: independent, unofficial, maintained by Anas
Rashid, not affiliated with or endorsed by the owners of ganjoor.net, who carry
no responsibility for it. The README leads with the same paragraph and points
issues here rather than at the Ganjoor project.
The README also gains a full inventory of the open source this app is built on
— Ganjoor and GanjoorService, ganjoor-data, Daneshjoo, Wiktionary and Urdu
Wiktionary, wiktextract, the three fonts, and every library — each with its
repository and terms. licenses/README.md already carried most of it, but a
reader looking for "which repos does this use" should not have to open a second
file to find out.
GanjoorService is listed with the point that matters: GPL-3.0, no code used,
only data over HTTPS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
OLED was a sixth theme, which meant choosing it threw away sepia night. It is
a switch now, applied to whichever dark theme is in use: the surfaces move
towards black rather than being replaced by it, so sepia night keeps its warmth
and only the background goes truly black. Text and accents are untouched.
Anyone who had picked the old Black theme comes out as Dark with the switch on.
Recitations: Ganjoor hosts readings of the poems — twenty of Hafez's first
ghazal alone — and the poem screen now plays them. Streamed, never stored,
because a dozen readings of one ghazal would dwarf the poems themselves, which
also makes this the one part of the app that genuinely needs a connection; it
doesn't appear without one. The platform's MediaPlayer rather than ExoPlayer:
one URL, play and pause, nothing to justify a media library.
Pronunciations were laid out as a flowing row, which put Latin IPA and Urdu
spelling in the same right-to-left run — the chips reordered and each label
ended up under someone else's value. They are one per line now, in a single
direction.
Verified on an API 36 emulator: sepia night with the switch on is black with
warm cards; the player shows play on arrival with no network call, and streams
on press.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tapping a word in a poem now opens its meaning. Neither source covers enough
alone — Daneshjoo reaches 71% of real poem vocabulary — so both ship, each row
carrying its source so the credit stays attached and either can be dropped
later. Together with the lookup chain that reaches 88%, and 13 of the 55
remaining misses are Arabic lines quoted inside Persian poems.
Lookup widens until something matches: the word as written, the lemma it
inflects from, the word with an affix stripped, then the parts of a ZWNJ
compound. The lemma step is what makes classical verse readable, and it comes
from Wiktionary's 149,589 form->lemma pairs: افتاد is only findable as افتادن.
The Arabic definite article is stripped too, since poems quote Arabic.
Two things the build taught me. Wiktionary's 93 MB export is 0.94 MB of
definitions wrapped in inflection tables, etymology templates and IPA, so
tools/build_dictionary.py keeps the definitions and the form index and drops
the rest. And the packager silently gunzips .gz assets and strips the
extension, which shipped the database under a name the code wasn't opening —
every lookup failed silently until the APK listing gave it away.
Hit testing needed care as well: nastaliq is set with 2.4x leading, so most of
a line box is empty space, and a tap there clamps to the line's first
character — which made every tap return the opening word. Taps are now checked
against the baseline band, with the multipliers left as a knob for swapped
fonts. Definitions are English, so they read left-to-right inside the
otherwise right-to-left sheet.
Verified on the release build, where R8 could have broken the SQLite path:
tapping عشق returns both sources, and دانند resolves to دانستن.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Search: full-text across the poems, scoped to all poets, a few, or one. The
static data set has no index, so this is ganjoor.net's own search endpoint,
which scopes to one poet at a time — several picked poets run as several
queries and merge. Entry is the poets filter box, which now sits in the bottom
bar within thumb reach and offers its own words to the poem search one tap
further. Snippets show the line the term is actually on.
Themes: a sixth, true black, for OLED panels where an unlit pixel costs no
power. Surfaces step up in near-blacks so cards stay distinguishable.
Licences: every component is now credited in-app under Reading settings >
About & licences, with the full text bundled in assets/licenses — the OFL
requires the licence to travel with the software, so linking to it wasn't
enough. licenses/README.md indexes the same thing for the repo. The credits
list and the licence texts lay out left-to-right in English, since the rest of
the app is right-to-left for the poetry's sake and English prose is unreadable
right-aligned.
Fixes a crash: the settings sheet was composed outside the provider supplying
LocalOpenAbout, so opening it threw.
Search decoding is covered by a unit test against a real API response; the
rest verified on an API 36 emulator.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reading
- Naskh is now the default face, and both Arabic-script fonts are registered
at four weights so the text can be thickened for a lit screen.
- Category listings show each poem's opening line, fetched best-effort from
api.ganjoor.net since the data set doesn't carry excerpts.
- Tap a couplet to save that passage or copy it; a saved passage keeps a
tappable link back to its poem. Poem text is selectable for plain copying.
Languages
- Persian, Urdu and English, Persian by default whatever the phone's locale,
applied in attachBaseContext and switchable from the top bar or the sheet.
- English chrome uses Libron (OFL); poems stay naskh or nastaliq throughout.
- Each language gets its own values-* folder: with Farsi only in values/,
Android was resolving it to the Urdu strings, since a same-script locale
outranks the default.
Offline
- Downloaded poets mirror the data set's layout under filesDir, so offline
mode is one lookup rather than a parallel path. Downloads run one poet at
a time, skip what's on disk, and resume by restarting.
- Downloads screen lists every poet with their portrait and tick boxes for
picking several, plus storage used, delete, and download-everything behind
a size warning.
- Offline mode refuses the network and says what's missing rather than
blaming the connection.
Also: poet sort (Ganjoor's order or alphabetical, via a Persian collator),
RTL nav transitions, an original shamsa launcher icon with a monochrome layer
for themed icons, and preferences written with commit so they survive the
process being killed.
F-Droid: dependenciesInfo off, optional signing so the build works with no
keystore, fastlane metadata in three languages, cleartext traffic disabled.
Verified on an API 36 emulator: downloaded a poet, pulled the emulator's
network, read them offline, and confirmed an undownloaded poet reports being
missing rather than erroring.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Poets grid, category browsing and a poem reader backed by
github.com/anas-rashid/ganjoor-data over jsDelivr — no backend, addressed by
Ganjoor URLs rather than numeric ids, with a 64 MB OkHttp disk cache so
anything already read stays readable offline.
Reading: couplets stack with the first hemistich at the start of the line and
the second at the end; prose sections fill the column. Bundled Noto Naskh
Arabic and Noto Nastaliq Urdu, switchable while reading, with the extra
leading nastaliq needs. Five themes (system, light, dark, sepia, sepia night)
and a text size slider, all persisted. Whole app lays out right-to-left.
Verified on an API 36 emulator through poets -> category -> poem in both
sepia schemes and both fonts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
