Ha, wish I knew.

There is the online anki, though, which is pretty useful. I've used it a few times. I'm pretty sure that the android marketplace has as much Japanese stuff as the iPhone marketplace (I know that's not the name). As you noted, there's ankidroid as well as ankimini, but one isn't so hot yet, and the other requires rooting, I think... I'm not certain, though. There's also a seemingly-good dictionary (Oxford English-Japanese) but I've not tried it (Too cheap to pay!). It's about 10 dollars, so it's not too pricey. A lot of the reviews complain about being unable to use romaji, which is kinda funny.

As far as japanese studies go, though, I mostly use the last.fm app, for the tag radio. As long as I put in 'jpop' or 'jrock' or similar, I never get any non-Japanese bands. One out of every ten or so will have a lot of English in it, but most of the music's good. There's also a pandora app, but I've not been successful in getting it to play only Japanese music.

For inputting japanese, I'd recommend simeji.
Be sure to go into the settings and try all 3 types of keyboard input.

CarolinaCG wrote:

What about dictionaries (for japanese) for free? One of those where we can write the kanji (android phones have touch screen) would be pretty cool.
I tried one that was very good but it was online so...|:

A dictionary would be very handy really.

I use Aedict, nice interface, its offline (it downloads JDIC when used for the first time), quick and even has some Quiz ability (I've to try it sometime).

Thanks Thurd and Elidan. I will download that one then





This thread is not japanese learning exclusive, you can suggest other apps you think are cool.

+1 for JED. I used aedict too, but jed searches as you type, so it is MUCH more faster,
it also finds conjugated forms (at least masu and te form) of the verbs and shows furigana.

I personally also play a lot with kanji flashcard, although it has only 1000 kanji or so...

As zanzou mentioned before, not much love for Japanese on android :'(

I did try anki on android no so long ago, but I have a dedicated "japanese
learning center" ( aka netbook ), so I didn't really use it.
There is also smart.fm for android which I dropped for the same reason,
but looked really promising.

You might also be interested to know that there is Chinese IME bundled with HTC-branded phones sold in Asia: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512530

CarolinaCG wrote:

None of you mentioned anki droid. Are you already aware of it?

I bought an HTC with Android recently, after I lost my ipod touch in a trip. I've installed ankidroid but all it does is open the file on capitals of the world. No options, no indication of how to upload other files or anything. I installed also Anymemo which claims to be better but, although it has proper menus and whatnot, the heisig file does not start from the beginning. Plus it has 6 easy to hard choices, which is too many in my opinion.
Any ideas how to get the Ankidroid to work?

Jeromin wrote:

CarolinaCG wrote:

None of you mentioned anki droid. Are you already aware of it?

I bought an HTC with Android recently, after I lost my ipod touch in a trip. I've installed ankidroid but all it does is open the file on capitals of the world. No options, no indication of how to upload other files or anything. I installed also Anymemo which claims to be better but, although it has proper menus and whatnot, the heisig file does not start from the beginning. Plus it has 6 easy to hard choices, which is too many in my opinion.
Any ideas how to get the Ankidroid to work?

1) download this: http://ankidroid.googlecode.com/files/A … MENTAL.apk
2) enable unknown/non-market apps (settings -> applications -> unknown sources)
3) install the downloaded file via astro or similar
4) copy an anki deck from your PC or wherever to the root of your sd card (so /sdcard/whatever.anki)
5) open ankidroid, menu, switch to another deck and choose your deck from the list.

you should then be able to put your user and pass in via preferences and then sync your deck no problems.

http://groups.google.com/group/anki-and … f0b4f584a#
^^ read that too - this version is the beta so some functions don't work (can't remember specifically), but on the whole it is fully functional.

+1 on DroidWing. I even got the NHK accent dictionary to work on that. You click on the word, and you can hear it pronounced properly. Awesome. I've got a ton of dictionaries on my Nexus One now thanks to DroidWing. It officially beats the pants off of my old iPhone, because with one search, I can search them all. (Even the online dictionaries.)

+1 on Simeji, too. Much faster than using the iPhone's globe key to switch between US, JP, and CHN traditional keyboards. The only downside is that there's no "draw the kanji and have it recognized app" for JP yet. I'll have to try the ones under development. *fingers crossed* Would be awesome if they could fold one into Simeji, too.

My favorite App right now is Chroma Doze. It's a GPL white noise generator. It lets you play with the audio spectrum a bit to modify the white noise you get, but it's awesome for drowning out noisy environments when you just need to be able to concentrate. It's in the Market.

I also like:
AstridTasks-- awesome task manager. LOTS of power. Just add a task to see what you can do.
AK Notepad-- great note-taker.
Pure Calendar Widget-- puts your upcoming calendar events, any size you want, in a widget. Very handy, very flexible.
Beautiful Widgets-- gives you the Sense-UI look, skinnable, without having to mess with Sense UI. Nice for us Nexus One owners.
WeatherBug Elite-- WeatherBug on steroids. Much better than the iPhone version, and the widgets are hot.

I strongly recommend EBAndroid, an EPWING dictionary reader. You'll need to load your own dictionaries onto an SD card but you can use as many as you like. Best of all, it's free. Pretty much identical to EBPocket on Windows Mobile for those who have used it.

EDIT: Just tried DroidWing after reading the recommendation in this thread. DroidWing is much better.

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Not really related to Japanese but there is a nice app called Swype. Its a really neat keyboard replacement that lets you type words by swiping your fingers across letters and let the algorithm (or you in some cases) decide which word it should be (look at some videos on YT).  So far it works in English, Italian and Spanish and I must say its very impressive.

The IME I use, Simeji, integrates with Social IME...  so if the word you want isn't displayed, you can hook into the internet and grab it from there.  Then the word is stored locally in a dictionary file.   It's provided me with people and place names (even for small towns) without much problem. 　No real problems for me.