Developing android japanese dictionary

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Reply #1 - 2013 May 14, 3:13 am
Spacehamster New member
From: Australia Registered: 2011-07-20 Posts: 1

Hi, I'm developing android Japanese dictionary, similar to Japanese on iOS, by myself in my free time. I was looking for some general feedback. How much interest is there for an app like this? What features would you want/need? What version of android would you use? Any thoughts or comments are welcome.

Reply #2 - 2013 May 14, 4:34 am
Tamba Member
Registered: 2011-12-06 Posts: 17

You could look into forking AEdict: https://code.google.com/p/aedict/
There haven't been any updates for years, but there are still lots of open feature requests.

If you really want to create a completely new app, the features I need (and like about AEdict are:
- Offline dictionary
- Bookmarks/Notepad with an export-function
- Lookup by radicals
- Sample sentences

As for the Android version: While I personally use 4.0.4., supporting at least 2.3.3 (API Level 10) seems like a good idea: https://developer.android.com/about/das … index.html

Last edited by Tamba (2013 May 14, 4:47 am)

Reply #3 - 2013 May 14, 5:47 am
RawToast お巡りさん
From: UK Registered: 2012-09-03 Posts: 431 Website

Take a look at JED:

http://www.umibouzu.com/jed/

It's no longer under development (last I heard), but you would want to match the functionality.

Like Tamba states, you really need to support older versions of Android. I think 2.7 is the most used version of Android, followed by 4.0.x

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Reply #4 - 2013 May 14, 7:47 am
partner55083777 Member
From: Tokyo Registered: 2008-04-23 Posts: 397

Using an epwing dictionary with an application like droidwing is really great.  There are some really high-quality J-J dictionaries available for *cough* free *cough* if you know where to look.

Reply #5 - 2013 May 18, 11:11 am
dacker Member
From: Slovenia Registered: 2009-02-01 Posts: 22

I'm thinking of putting source code on github for a dictionary I developed on Android. It's really simple but I can post link to source code when it's available if anyone is interested.

It's this app (no english version yet sorry):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta … Dictionary

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