Quote:Typhon is an e-book reader with the added capability of dictionary lookup for the Japanese language. If you ever used Rikaichan or Perapera-kun, you know what this is about.

Here are a list of the features:
- Vocabulary lookup based on Edict
- Japanese Names lookup based on Enamdict
- Kanji lookup based on Kanjidic (slightly modified to accommodate Heisig index from the 6th version as well)
- Entries displayed in colors
- Kanji lookup of an edict entry (short click on it)
- Automatic import of an entry as a flashcard in AnkiDroid if installed. It adds also the context sentence in the flashcard. (long click on the entry)
- Kanji entries display the Heisig frame number so that you know if you learned a kanji or not (surprisingly useful if you used the excellent remembering the kanji book)
- Possibility to switch between Heisig 4th and 6th numbering
- Possibility to zoom in on the entries (pinch the entries drag window)

If you're wondering why I added a kanji lookup on an edict entry, I think it is useful when you get a match with a hiragana word in the text but in kanji in Edict and you're wondering what is this kanji that you saw previously somewhere.

Credits:
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Typhon is a fork of PageTurner integrating some elements of JadeReader which in turns has ported some of its features from rikaichan. And rikaichan uses Jim breen's Edict, Enamdict and Kanjidic. So it makes also use of rikaichan's deinflector data and logic without which you would not be able to search an inflected verb in a text.

- PageTurner: http://www.pageturner-reader.org/
- JadeReader: https://bitbucket.org/rayzhou/jaderead-restart
- Polarcloud: http://www.polarcloud.com/
- Jim breen's page: http://nihongo.monash.edu/japanese.html

Since I modified quite a lot the original dictionary code from JadeReader, I decided to publish it as a Java library called JRikai adding support for Kanjidic amongst other things. 

This work is published under the GPLv3 license following the compatibility rules with the licenses used by the software Typhon is based on.

Source code:
Typhon : https://biboomig@bitbucket.org/biboomig/typhon.git
JRikai : https://biboomig@bitbucket.org/biboomig/jrikai.git

(2016-04-13, 1:44 am)risu_ Wrote: Any chances of releasing a version with vertical text?

(2016-04-20, 7:17 am)creamyhorror Wrote: Hey ZorgBlub, I'm really liking what you've done here, thanks a bunch! Typhon does almost exactly what I want for mobile reading - dictionary lookup and Anki card creation. I registered just to say this.

Books (ePub) load extremely slowly for me currently. Can this be sped up (caching, simpler parsing)? It can take 30-40 seconds to load a book, and my phone is mostly unresponsive in the meantime. This is the case on both the old and new (1.22) version.

Plus on the new version (which I just installed), I get a dialog saying that I need to download a Japanese dictionary to look up words in this book. Dictionary lookup doesn't work. Is this a bug? Should I have uninstalled before updating from 1.0 to 1.22?

Again, great work and I look forward to the future iterations of Typhon!

(2016-04-20, 10:22 am)ZorgBlub Wrote: Thanks for the feedback!

For the load time, I have already noticed long load times though not to that level and very randomly. 
Can you tell me what phone you use, what version of android and what ebook you are trying to open? (You can reply through private messages if you prefer)

What I was working on lately was more to optimize the launch of the app itself because it is too slow in my opinion. 

For the dictionary download, it is possible that you had an old dictionary base that needs an update. I store the dictionaries myself because I modify them. I trimmed wordnet of some unused data and added the 6th version of Heisig index to kanjidic.
Or it might be a bug…

(2016-04-23, 4:17 am)ToumeiNingen Wrote: I already like this app a lot. But I'm having some issues.

All of the EPUBs I have, have some furigana and it's showing right after the kanji as if it where another word.
Like this "俺は呟つぶやき、どういうわけだか俺は鳴ってもいない携帯けいたい電話を..."　Where 呟つぶやき and 携帯けいたい are not ok. Furigana probably makes little sense when you have the integrated dictionary thing, but it's confusing if it appears like that (right after the kanji). I don't lnow if there is something wrong with my files or something, though.

Another thing is that the only way I can go to the next page is by the icon located at the end of all the text in one page. I've noticed there is a section of navigation prefferences in the settings, but I cant change them (all the options are unavailable, in a light grey font, only in this section). I'm using a Galaxy Tab 2.

And here is a question, Can I change the Anki card type and the deck where the cards are added? or will it mess something?

(2016-04-25, 11:20 am)creamyhorror Wrote:

(2016-04-20, 10:22 am)ZorgBlub Wrote: Thanks for the feedback!

For the load time, I have already noticed long load times though not to that level and very randomly. 
Can you tell me what phone you use, what version of android and what ebook you are trying to open? (You can reply through private messages if you prefer)

What I was working on lately was more to optimize the launch of the app itself because it is too slow in my opinion. 

For the dictionary download, it is possible that you had an old dictionary base that needs an update. I store the dictionaries myself because I modify them. I trimmed wordnet of some unused data and added the 6th version of Heisig index to kanjidic.
Or it might be a bug…

Thanks for the suggestions, and sorry I forgot to reply earlier. I solved the dictionary-download problem by uninstalling & reinstalling the app.

The long load times (40+ sec for a long book) are still there, though. Samsung Galaxy S5, Android 4.4.2. The "Loading text..." notification appears for maybe 10s, then it disappears and the screen turns unresponsive, and finally the text appears. I tried deleting and re-importing the book (performing copy-to-library folder), but there's no difference.

Maybe what would work is partial loading (5000 characters at a time?) + a more efficient loading function?

Thanks for any suggestions, and hope you'll be able to keep improving the app If you have suggestions on somewhere in the code to look at, I can give it a try.

(2016-04-26, 1:30 pm)AzureBlue Wrote: This is great! I have been looking for exactly something like this for a long time.

The only usability problem for me is that my phone doesn't support Japanese as a language option and Typhon displays the Chinese variant of Kanji instead of the Japanese.
Would it be possible for you to add a Japanese font as an extra font option, or maybe an option to use a user provided font file?

(2016-04-27, 9:39 am)ZorgBlub Wrote:

(2016-04-25, 11:20 am)creamyhorror Wrote:

(2016-04-20, 10:22 am)ZorgBlub Wrote: Thanks for the feedback!

For the load time, I have already noticed long load times though not to that level and very randomly. 
Can you tell me what phone you use, what version of android and what ebook you are trying to open? (You can reply through private messages if you prefer)

What I was working on lately was more to optimize the launch of the app itself because it is too slow in my opinion. 

For the dictionary download, it is possible that you had an old dictionary base that needs an update. I store the dictionaries myself because I modify them. I trimmed wordnet of some unused data and added the 6th version of Heisig index to kanjidic.
Or it might be a bug…

Thanks for the suggestions, and sorry I forgot to reply earlier. I solved the dictionary-download problem by uninstalling & reinstalling the app.

The long load times (40+ sec for a long book) are still there, though. Samsung Galaxy S5, Android 4.4.2. The "Loading text..." notification appears for maybe 10s, then it disappears and the screen turns unresponsive, and finally the text appears. I tried deleting and re-importing the book (performing copy-to-library folder), but there's no difference.

Maybe what would work is partial loading (5000 characters at a time?) + a more efficient loading function?

Thanks for any suggestions, and hope you'll be able to keep improving the app If you have suggestions on somewhere in the code to look at, I can give it a try.

Ok, good to know it worked in the end.

For the load time, I need to know what book you use because I suspect that its content is all in one chapter. I'll have a look and see if there is room for optimization but it will take a while since this is a part of the ebook reader app that I did not touch previously. But I agree that it does not matter the size of the book ~40sec load should not happen.

If my guess about the structure of the book is correct, you can always try to detect the structure of the book with calibre and rewrite it with chapters.