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atahabaki / wordbook-android

An android app for linguists...
https://atahabaki.github.io/wordbook-android/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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An easier way to get definitions #52

Open yephny opened 2 years ago

yephny commented 2 years ago

Hey, I love how you kept the app as minimal as possible with minimum bloat. I commend you for that.

Though, I really wonder how you use the app. Are you used to manually typing out the word and its definition every time you add a word to your WordBook? I almost always use an online dictionary like Merriam-Webster to read up on a word, so for me, it'd be best if an app auto-pulled from M-W. However, I'm not here to ask for it, as it'd defeat the purpose of this app being a simple local database for words and their definitions.

Another option I can think of is collaborating with another app like Notification Dictionary, which already has a simple offline dictionary. Of course, an app that can look up words online would work better in this case but even this could be a beginning.

Anyway, that's just my 2 cents.

atahabaki commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. I could do that. Let me look at it's API... I suppose this is their API page. For now, I'm postponing this to Version 1.1...