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Handy News Reader is a light and modern Android feed reader, based on Flym News Reader
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In-app text translation. #276

Open ThomasLeigh opened 5 years ago

ThomasLeigh commented 5 years ago

Recently I switched from CoolReader to MoonReader to read e-books. Soon after I discovered a nice surprise: MoonReader turned out to be capable of text translation within its own window (though using third-party apps installed on Your device).

When I first used this feature, the app asked Me to choose from various supported dictionary apps - I chose ColorDict.

Note that I use Android 6 which does not support multi-window layout - but thanks to this MoonReader's feature I can enjoy it anyway :) . And it makes a significant difference that I don't need to switch between the apps whenever I want to translate something.

Here how it looks in action: on the video I show You how it is possible to translate the text via Handy NR through Android's 'share' feature - and then how I do similar thing with MoonReader:

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I'd like to ask would it be possible to implement such translation feature within Handy NR? It would be fantastic, especially given that not everyone has the Android supporting multi-window layout, which I'm not sure would solve this matter anyway.

ThomasLeigh commented 4 years ago

Maybe this could help - see Launching from Other Applications section on the bottom:

https://github.com/itkach/aard2-android

yanus171 commented 1 year ago

I should implement https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2015/10/in-app-translations-in-android.html?m=1

gautxori-yuyu commented 4 weeks ago

GoldenDict works perfectly with HandyReader, and it's a good choice as a dictionary for android.