Privacy Browser Android

If implemented, then we can add a domain setting for a default language to be translated in. And that page will always be translated in the selected language, even though it's loaded in a different one.

Using a cloud translation service has significant privacy implications. I cannot imagine that I would ever implement it into Privacy Browser.

Google has been working on implementing an on-device translation service.

https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/language/translation

If they ever integrated this with WebView I would be happy to enable it.

Sad. Btw, on-device translation is only possible through AI with dedicated NPU (neural processing unit) on the device. If not, the whole dictionary translation mechanism offline locally takes a heck lot of storage.

Although, I hate AI so much. Not because it's taking our jobs, but because it's a black box. You throw your garbage data to it & it spits out the answer based on the prompt complexity. Such an absurd lazy idea.

Close this, as cloud translation is not possible. And offline translation requires huge amount of library downloads (if such API even exists).

Google is making a lot of noise about implementing on-device translation. If they do that it can be integrated with WebView, then I would love to enable it in Privacy Browser.

https://support.google.com/translate/answer/6142473?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid

Yes but is it through AOSP ? Or through built-in Google Play Services ? If it's latter, then I don't think it's worth implementing it.

Okay, after reading the support page, I think it's Google Translate app that they're referring to. Nop. Nop.

It all depends on how Google ends up implementing it. As it is, it is not open source and there is no way to integrate it with WebView. But that might change.

But might expose their API for any third party usage. If you plan to implement it in the future, beware that f-droid puts a warning on your publish "Promotes non free services".

If it is a non-free service, I will not use it. But if it becomes a standard, open Android API, then I would use it. And F-Droid would not have any problem with that (in fact, a lot of F-Droid apps would probably use it).

I see there are a lot of translate APIs but unfortunately most of them either work through neural engines or not FOSS.

That's what this is waiting on. It is one of the things Google teased with their release of the Tensor processor. Even if Google doesn't implement a FOSS on-device translator, someone else might.

Until then, Privacy Browser Android will not include any sort of built-in translation, because using any type of service compromises the privacy of the users.

Or a better approach would be to just naturally learn English ? Doesn't help with european or eastern languages though.