Ok, small update. The current version of jed can export word lists to anki file which then can be used by ankidroid. ankidroid even shows furigana. 2 awesome apps for free. I'm a fan :-)
Any new apps on your side?

sikieiki wrote:

I am waiting for the day theres a usable anki on droid.
It needs to have sound, sync, and proper scheduling.

That day was around April

Its tricky though because that version is not available through the Market. But if you want it really bad you will get past this easily.

There is a beta for Ankidroid with synchronizing, too.

Takou wrote:

can you choose from which dictionary you want results on droidwing? or it automatic shows results from all the dictionaries you have installed?

Yes you can. I have three dictionaries on mine and you can choose which ones to use.

Takou wrote:

can you type on droidwing with the app Simeji?

Yes you can.

Takou wrote:

can u use jump fuction? something like clicking a word-kanji and searching it in another dictionary (like ebwin for windows does if your are familiar)

Not that I could figure out. If you could copy the text from the definitions you could just search for the new word. Unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to do that either.

BTW I just updated to Ankidroid 0.4.1, several new features, my favorite is that now it is possible to download shared decks.
The processing of the deck takes a while and it looks like the app is dead but eventually it finish the work and the deck can be used with no problems.

Anybody tried watching dramas with Japanese subtitles on their Android machines?

ocircle wrote:

thurd wrote:

Anybody tried watching dramas with Japanese subtitles on their Android machines?

I've tried it, but it really drains the battery. I've only tried hard subs (which are quite visible.)

Battery is not a problem for me since I have chargers at home & work, hard subs for Japanese shows are rare and I don't like the idea of making them myself. Want to keep this process as simple as possible: put 2 files on my phone and enjoy

arch9443 wrote:

Well I just got my HTC Desire today and so far it's working out great.  I installed Simeji, Aedict, AnkiDroid, DroidWing, and Kaki Memo.  But I"m curious about one thing.  How do you go about downloading Japanese Apps?  searching for them in the android market does nothing.  I looked for なだれ星 and アンドロモナ but came up with nothing.  I then tried to search for them in romaji, but that didn't do anything either.

No idea but maybe they are only available on Japanese Market so you'd have to root your phone and use Market Enabler.

arch9443 wrote:

And I'm curious if it's possible to have Ankidroid sync with the server like it does on a computer.  I'm guessing it's not possible, but I'm not quite sure.

Here, download the latest experimental alpha and enjoy your sync.

More necroposting, I know. At gibosi's suggestion, I downloaded AEDict for the odd time that I need to draw a kanji I don't know a reading for, or can't ask someone for a reading. It's much more responsive than my old iPhone.

One annoying thing about AEDict-- it requires about 60MB of SD Card space for the dictionaries, but at least it's on the SD card. A 32GB card is already on the way. This thing is stuffed full.

AEDict is a pretty good little EDict program, and it's free. It's EDict + Tanaka. As long as you know what you're getting into, it's fine for what it is.

In my search for alternative IMEs to Simeji, I bumped into Google変換マッシュ... and I had to yank the battery out of my Nexus One to recover it. It was a fight to get it off of my N1. It's very much in alpha mode, apparently. (I'm running Froyo 2.21, maybe that had something to do with it?)

I tried some of the OpenWNN variants... I still like Simeji. I haven't found an IME where you can draw kanji yet, though.

I have Aoisora, and I've been meaning to use it for reading 青空文庫 formatted books on my N1, but I haven't had time. It's getting better with every revision. It would be nice if it would work with Droidwing.

For DroidWing, I figured out how to add the ALC online dictionary to my searches. You just need to add this search URL:
http://eow.alc.co.jp/%s/UTF-8/

Yahoo (I think you can add this automatically now, but here it is):
http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/search?stype=0&a … 2&p=%s

Kenkyuusha:
http://www.excite.co.jp/dictionary/japa … beginswith
For any searchable database, %s will be filled in by the search text.

I wouldn't recommend the new version of Astrid Tasks. The 2.14.3 version was much better than the new version. It had everything for free that the new version broke.

Also, it looks like Beautiful Widgets is broken, too. I'm not sure what's up with that. I haven't updated it in 3 months, though, and the old version 2.999 still runs fine with Froyo 2.21.

One question: can you change the apps that Simeji's mushroom points to? It wants to use AEDict, and I want it to use DroidWing, but I can't find a way to tell it to do so, other than unchecking AEDict.

I still haven't figured out exactly what they added in Froyo 2.21. More sparkle?

Last edited by rich_f (2010 October 12, 7:48 pm)

@Teskal-- I saw the HanWriting program, but I wasn't sure how well it worked. You like it?

I've had all kinds of problems with Android messing up the names of mp3 files I put on there in Japanese which show up as gibberish.

It makes playlist editing even more of a royal pain in the butt than it already is.

I'm not a fan of opening up edit pad pro and doing it by hand, but that seems to be the most accurate way of doing it. I don't particularly like DoubleTwist, but it's looking like I'm going to have to go back to it.

For a podcatcher, right now I'm looking at Juice. Not sure it'll do exactly what you want, though. You might need to write a script or something to handle the PDFs.
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/download/index.php

Last edited by rich_f (2010 October 13, 10:02 am)

Ah yeah, I hate what they did to GMail. The old version was better. Now it's all cluttered up.

Now that you mention it, WiFi is more stable, and I don't have it constantly asking me which network I want to join.

I have noticed that copy/paste/selecting text is easier, too.

If anyone has any ideas for fixing Japanese text in music file titles rendering properly, I'd love to hear it. Half of my music shows up fine, while the title information in the new stuff is just garbage. It plays fine, but the information is unreadable. So I have to guess at everything, or convert it all to romaji. Bleh.

And a good playlist editor would be awesome. I'm still searching for one. I may try DoubleTwist again out of desperation.

is there also a way to put your phone in Japanese language. If I go to change to change language. I can only choose french,english and Dutch =/ ( I have the htc desire btw)

ocircle, where did you get the clock and weather widgets? 

For quick reading I toggle between the excite.co.jp mobile site and colordict app.  Excite has a section on it's news page called びっくり that has short, unusual, interesting stories.  Colordict is not as extensive as the other dictionary apps mentioned, but it's very fast and keeps a history of the words you look up. So I copy a word I don't know from excite and paste it into colordict.  With my phone I can long press the home button to pull up a quick menu of recently used apps, which is helpful when toggling back and forth. 

Dolphin browser features tabs, so you could have your newspaper in one tab and an online dictionary in another, but this was slow for me, and the online dictionaries didn't always know when I had pasted something into them.  The Steel browser's text select feature is easier to get to, but I found it rendered pages slowly.

I also make regular stops to Anki online.  I would love to use and Anki app, but I'm a big syncher and I'm nervous trusting my precious deck to an alpha version.  Reviewing the Kanji doesn't have a special mobile site, but I've found it works fine if you zoom out a little.