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Offline dictionary support #11

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It would be great to have offline dictionary support.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by davidomu...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2010 at 8:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The idea of this app is to integrate different online services in order to 
create a dictionary, while making use of phone features such as touch screen 
and camera. Almost all features, starting with the dictionary (WWWJDIC), OCR 
(WeOCR), handwritten recognition (kanji recognizer), and stroke order diagrams 
require Internet access. Making those things work offline would be equivalent 
to creating a new app. No plans to do that for now.

Original comment by nikolay....@gmail.com on 26 Jun 2010 at 11:09

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by nikolay....@gmail.com on 30 Jun 2010 at 2:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Making just the dictionary part work offline would be very useful.  I took my 
phone to Japan and didn't have cellular service, but would have liked to still 
be able to search the dictionary.

Jim Breen does provide downloadable files containing all the dictionary data, 
and the standard "EDICT" Japanese-English dictionary is only about 12.5 MB, so 
it wouldn't be that impractical to store it for offline access: 
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdicinf.html#dicfil_tag
The Linux program Gjiten, for example, uses this file to provide a desktop 
dictionary with the same contents as WWWJDIC.

Actually, maybe the makers of Gjiten would be in a better position to make an 
Android app that is usable offline.

Original comment by howes...@gmail.com on 14 Dec 2011 at 4:07

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I do know about the files, and I use the kanjidic one in another application. 
Making the dictionary part work offline is certainly doable, but there are 
Android apps that already do that. 

Still, no plans for offline support for now, unless someone is willing to 
contribute it, of course. Plus, hosting the files might be costly, so it might 
be a problem for a free app. For comparison, with similar sized downloadable 
packages, I get around 500GB/month on another app. 

BTW, I used to use Gjiten when I was on dial-up :)

Original comment by nikolay....@gmail.com on 14 Dec 2011 at 4:20