This project provides a simple API to use Google Translate in JavaME (J2ME) platform. It uses the Google AJAX Language API to do the translation via a HTTP connection.

News

Version 2.0 is now available. It supports 'Auto-Detect Language' feature (implemented by Kamil Myśliwiec)

Requirements

CLDC-1.1 MIDP-1.0

Install

Simply include the google-api-translate-javame.jar file in your application's classpath.

Quickstart

See the example midlet.

import com.google.api.javame.*;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.Display;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.TextBox;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.TextField;
import javax.microedition.midlet.MIDlet;

public class TestMidlet1 extends MIDlet {

    private TextBox tb;

    public void startApp() {
        tb = new TextBox("Google Translate API for JavaME", "", 500, TextField.ANY);
        try {
            String translatedText = Translate.translate("How are you", Language.ENGLISH, Language.FRENCH);
            tb.setString(translatedText);
            Display.getDisplay(this).setCurrent(tb);
        } catch (Exception e) {
        }
    }

    public void pauseApp() {
    }

    public void destroyApp(boolean unconditional) {
    }
}

Features

More than 40 supported languages

For more features about Google Translate API visit - http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/

Acknowledgment

I would like to thank 'Rich Midwinter' who is the project owner of google-api-translate-java which is build for JavaSE. His work helped me alot in completing this project.

Problems / Suggestions?

Please do report an issue if you find any bugs or have any feature requests.