Rendering Kannada (Indic) Text on Android

I was recently developing an android application where I wanted to display kannada text in the TextView. I went through this link, now the problem is the glyphs(character sequence) are not rendered/interpreted properly. I also found this discussion pretty usef开发者_如何转开发ull . Now my question is - "Is it possible to integrate a layout/shaping engine (responsible for rendering the text properly) in an application.

Any help in this regard would be helpful.

Thanks !!

Use Bitmap fonts and your own rendering engine till Android supports

What version of Android are you targeting? Pre-2.3 Android has very poor support for any Indian language whatsoever. 2.3 introduced support for Hindi, but Dravidian languages are still missing. Based on this fact is my hunch that Android 2.3 and later probably might render Kannada text better.

Also, emulators have known issues with text rendering in some languages. I suggest testing on a real device.