Rikai + Android - Printable Version

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Rikai + Android - RawToast - 2013-06-17

Ah, that sounds good enough for a workaround. You are right /sdcard is my internal memory and /sdcard1 points to external memory.

It's on a Sony Xperia Z, I had the same setup by default on my last phone (THL W6). Sony are pretty developer friendly and supply an emulator here:

http://developer.sonymobile.com/knowledge-base/sdks/sony-add-on-sdk/install-the-sony-add-on-sdk/

Rikai + Android - toshiromiballza - 2013-06-17

Nope, external access isn't possible for mine. It's /storage/sdcard1 for me.

symlink /storage/sdcard0 /mnt/sdcard

symlink /storage/sdcard0 /sdcard

symlink /storage/sdcard1 /external_sd

symlink /storage/sdcard1 /mnt/external_sd

To support all models.

Rikai + Android - Earthlark - 2013-08-24

rrrrrray,

Thanks for the great app! It's fantastic! If you get a chance, it would be nice to be able to share a highlighted word with other programs. (I know it can be googled and copied.) Some words aren't in the dictionary, but if I could share them with EBPocket, I could more easily look them up (rather than copying them, closing the program, opening EBPocket...) I suppose another option would be to allow epwing dictionaries to be read, but I'm guessing that's a lot more complicated.

Also, when I've tried saving a word from the dictionary, the message is "Failed to save word". I've tried the save file "vocab.txt" on both the internal and external storage (on my Note II), but to no avail.

Rikai + Android - Savii - 2013-08-24

Jade Reader is great! The toolset for working with Japanese on my phone is getting better and better. If JR ever adds support for 縦書 mode and 青空 formatting I will literally scream. It's that good.

I'd also like to thank balloonguy for his port of Rikaichan to Firefox for Android posted in this thread, aside from some touch accuracy issues it's fabulous.

Rikai + Android - rrrrrray - 2013-08-25

Hi Earthlark,

Another user actually reported this to me. But the word is actually saved, but the displayed message messed up. I fixed it just now. Also added the Share functionality to the app so you can share text to other app. Should be available in Google Play in a few hours.

@Savii - If you are using AozoraProvider in Android, you can now open the text from it with Jade Reader. It should be able to read both its TEXT or XHTML format. Let me know if that's not what you want

Thanks for using the apps, guys!

Rikai + Android - Savii - 2013-08-25

rrrrrray Wrote:@Savii - If you are using AozoraProvider in Android, you can now open the text from it with Jade Reader. It should be able to read both its TEXT or XHTML format. Let me know if that's not what you want

I was referring to the special markup codes in the Aozora format; they're a bit more than just text files in SJIS. Especially prominent in my totally innocent light novels are images (which would be a luxury but very nice, even if it's just an inline link/button triggering an image popup or a call to an external image viewer app or something) and furigana (which actually poses a problem when reading, because the parser won't 'see' the entire word in some cases, e.g. inflectables).

As far as I know furigana is always delimited by 《 and 》 characters, examples:
ここら辺、線引きが曖昧《あいまい》で踏み違えやすい。努々《ゆめゆめ》注意されたし。
思春期も資本社会の中でしか育《はぐく》まれない、ということだ。
I can imagine actually neatly displaying the furigana neatly above the line would be a challenge. Also, in LNs "furigana play" is not unusual, meaning the furigana itself could very well need lookups. I think an easy alternative would be to have the parser skip over 《》 sections so the verb in the second sentence will be properly regognized as 育む. Fading/dimming the text color of furigana sections a bit would be a nice bonus.

Images can be included like this:
［＃表紙（relative/path/to/image.jpg）］
PNGs are used as well. Note that the special characters are fullwidth except for the image path. ［＃foo］ in general seems to indicate an Aozora markup command, I've seen some others as well, for example to control font types and page breaks, so they can be stripped from the reader output.
This is not the only format though, HTML style is also common:
<img src="relative/path/to/image.jpg">

If you need more detailed info: there seems to be some sort of spec in Japanese on the Aozora Bunko website, though it looks like it's aimed at authors rather than programmers. Perhaps this git repository with the Java source of an Aozora interpreter is more useful.

Rikai + Android - tomatmore - 2013-11-10

@rrrrrray

Thanks for Jade Reader. An indispensable tool which I'm using daily. Two things though:

1) Sometimes I want to look up a word in a "real" dictionary. I have Droid Wing with several dictionaries installed. Unfortunately, when I mark a word and touch the Share button, Droid Wing doesn't appear in the list of applications. Is there something you can do about that?

2) Sometimes the word recognition algorithm fails. For example, when I long-click on 確実 in one of my novels, Jade Reader only marks and searches for 確.

That's all for now. Keep up the great work.

Rikai + Android - rrrrrray - 2013-11-10

Hi @tomatmore

Thanks for using Jade Reader. Smile

1) I am not sure about this one, though I would like to find out why. Any other applications that you use frequently and is able to "share" a word to Droid Wing? (I don't use Droid Wing personally, so I have no experience)

2) Yea, I am aware of the flaw of this. I must've done something wrong when i converted the WWWJDIC dictionary. I'll take a look into it when I have the time. (If you have more examples of this, please share with me)

Rikai + Android - Savii - 2013-11-10

tomatmore Wrote:1) Sometimes I want to look up a word in a "real" dictionary. I have Droid Wing with several dictionaries installed. Unfortunately, when I mark a word and touch the Share button, Droid Wing doesn't appear in the list of applications. Is there something you can do about that?

rrrrrray Wrote:1) I am not sure about this one, though I would like to find out why. Any other applications that you use frequently and is able to "share" a word to Droid Wing? (I don't use Droid Wing personally, so I have no experience)

I think Android makes a distinction between "sharing" and "looking up". Many apps with a lookup interface have also registered a sharing interface (so they show up in both lists), but it seems DroidWing only has a lookup service. If my theory is correct you should be able to fix it by summoning the (usually much smaller) list of lookup apps instead of the sharing apps (or even better, have a button for both).

Rikai + Android - tomatmore - 2013-11-11

rrrrrray Wrote:1) I am not sure about this one, though I would like to find out why. Any other applications that you use frequently and is able to "share" a word to Droid Wing? (I don't use Droid Wing personally, so I have no experience)

I probably jumped the gun on that one as I just installed some other EPWING dictionary readers, and none of them is able to receive data via sharing. Oh well, copy-and-paste then.

Rikai + Android - Savii - 2013-11-20

tomatmore Wrote:
rrrrrray Wrote:1) I am not sure about this one, though I would like to find out why. Any other applications that you use frequently and is able to "share" a word to Droid Wing? (I don't use Droid Wing personally, so I have no experience)
I probably jumped the gun on that one as I just installed some other EPWING dictionary readers, and none of them is able to receive data via sharing. Oh well, copy-and-paste then.

DroidWing and EBPocket can definitely be used as a lookup service; Vertical Text Reader has them in its lookup apps list. However this is a different list from the regular 'sharing' list. Apart from the selection of apps it functions in the same way, though. I'm guessing it's a different class in the Android API or some option for the regular one.

rrrrrray Wrote:2) Yea, I am aware of the flaw of this. I must've done something wrong when i converted the WWWJDIC dictionary. I'll take a look into it when I have the time. (If you have more examples of this, please share with me)

I'm pretty sure it's not a per-word issue: recently I encountered a word that failed to parse in one sentence but worked fine in the next sentence.

Rikai + Android - Norbnorb - 2013-12-02

Hey, just wanted to give a quick thank you for this program.
Rikaichan for android Firefox I mean. Works really well!

Its a bit hard to use with fingers but if u just plug a mouse with a 3$ usb otg cable into the tablet or phone it works like a charm.

Rikai + Android - umeboshi - 2014-06-23

Hello, I'd like to contribute my offline Japanese-English dictionary Android app, Popup Japanese Dictionary to the pool of suggestions. It is similar to Rikaichan, Rikaikun, etc in that it displays word definitions in a popup window. What is different about Popup Japanese Dictionary is that it looks up text from anywhere that is copied to the Android clipboard. Therefore, you can look up words with it while using Chrome or the Android browser for example.

Rikai + Android - Sebastian - 2014-07-30

Lately I started using Rikaichan for Android and Jade Reader and they are awesome.

They would be even better if the authors added a couple features:

Rikaichan: When activated, modify default behavior so that tapping on links triggers Rikaichan, while double tapping triggers the actual link (I don't know if this is posible, but as of now, looking up links is impossible).

Jade Reader: Rikaisama and Rikaichan for Android's advanced saving format (including the source sentence, etc).

BTW, am I doing something wrong, or Jade Reader doesn't parse html?

Rikai + Android - Ookamisan - 2014-09-17

Very nice app. Congratulations for balloonguy. Rikaichan for forefox is awesome. :-)

I figured out that sometimes rikaichan shows different dictionaries depending on if you selected a kanji word, or just a kanji with no meaning by itself as word. (showing number of strokes, rank on Heisig/ Halpen, etc. and other interesting info) So, like in firefox for desktop I can press "shift" key in order to go through different dictionaries, I was wondering if it's possible in Rikaichan for android too.

I couldn't find the way so I ask you if you know how to do that. It would be nice.

Rikai + Android - watashimo - 2014-09-17

Hi Ray,
Jade Reader is wonderful. Exactly what I've been looking for. I've been using it for close to a week now (reading 君にしか聞こえない), and your tool has helped me a lot. There's only one issue that I have: it doesn't save the bookmarks and highlighted words when I leave the app.

Does anybody else have the same problem? I'm using it with Android 4.2.2

Rikai + Android - cophnia61 - 2014-09-18

watashimo Wrote:Hi Ray,
Jade Reader is wonderful. Exactly what I've been looking for. I've been using it for close to a week now (reading 君にしか聞こえない), and your tool has helped me a lot. There's only one issue that I have: it doesn't save the bookmarks and highlighted words when I leave the app.

Does anybody else have the same problem? I'm using it with Android 4.2.2

Also, there is a way to change the default font? I've written to the programmer asking if he could add an option to choose another font in the next version but I don't know if he'll do it so... It is difficult to edit the source by myself to add this and recompile it? I have a background in programming but not on Android so... Or do you know other hacks to do this? My device is not rooted but I've changed the default font with iFont and it works with every single app except for Jade Reader and Firefox which, from what I see, are the only apps that implement Rikaichan Sad

Sorry to bother you with this but the default font in my Android looks so bad it prevents me to read, because after 5 minuts my eyes are begging for mercy ._.

Rikai + Android - dudeshane01 - 2015-09-03

For jade reader, we want to use it as a novel or text reader.
It forgets position everytime I reopen the app
Is it possible to remember this position.

RE: Rikai + Android - jahu00 - 2016-02-29

I used Jade Reader for a while and it was an ok app, but some features were simply missing. That's why I made my own rikai-based reading app for android. I never really bothered advertising it, but when I found this thread I though someone might find it useful.

The APK can be downloaded from here:
https://github.com/jahu00/Rikaikyun/releases

Known bugs:
- when you load a big (*cough* 500kB) documents the app becomes sluggish (switching between reading and menu can be even slower)
- images take whole screen
- on newer Android systems copy/paste helper can appear when you tap on selected text
- there is no onscreen back button (at least not in the released APK)
- the font cannot be changed

The source code is a total mess (this was my first bigger JS app and I don't feel motivated enough to rewrite the whole thing), however I'm still working on ironing out the bugs mentioned above and I'm thinking about adding EPUB support.

The highlights of the app are:
- name and kanji dictionary
- Ruby furigana support
- some basic HTML formatting
- image support
- neat progress bar

The app works best with UTF-8 files and supports HTML and TXT files. There might be some other quirks too (the stuff I read is full of paragraph tags, so if your files are not, they might a little off).

P.S. The kyun in the name of was inspired by a certain YMO song and the app was based on Rikai-kun, so...

Edit: I released a new beta version of the app a few days ago. I managed to improve app's speed and add document navigation (among other things).