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zehfernandes / wordnote

A simple and elegant notebook to write new words and discover their meanings and synonyms https://wordnote.app
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Built-in iOS Dictionary #9

Closed benjibee closed 1 year ago

benjibee commented 1 year ago

In lieu of a discussions tab, this is an issue, hope it's not distracting.

I've used the Notes app as my dictionary since iOS 8, and it's by far the best I've found. I type out a word, highlight it, and then tap "Look up" from the contextual menu. I have multiple languages on my phone, and iOS provides a dictionary for each one of them.

Your app looks like exactly what I've done for years, just much nicer. Any chance you've looked into using the built-in dictionary and something along the lines of UITextChecker or UIReferenceLibraryViewController.dictionaryHasDefinition() to get or show a definition? I have no idea if it's permitted, or possible, just wanted to put this out there for discussion.

zehfernandes commented 1 year ago

That's a good suggestion, @benjibee.

But I don't know if it is permitted. Let's see if someone from the community knows.

zehfernandes commented 1 year ago

Looks like it's not permitted

App Store guidelines disallow using the built-in system dictionary to create a dictionary app

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/06/19/kotoba

benjibee commented 1 year ago

Thanks for this, @zehfernandes at least I have a concrete answer! I might give that app a try, too, as the developer basically described my issue here as the reason for building it.