Dictionary frontend for Android Installation Dictionary index database Importing the dictionary index created with dict.exe Compilation Installation Install the file dictand-x.y.z.apk on your device.

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Description

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net.sf.dictccfe.and

Implementation of the forntend software for dict.cc, UDDL dictionaries and thesaurus files for Android.

Dictionary frontend for Android

1. Installation
2. Dictionary index database
   1. Importing the dictionary index created with dict.exe
3. Compilation

Installation

• Install the file dictand-x.y.z.apk on your device. See download section for the available installation files.
• Download dictionary files. Use:
  1. http://www1.dict.cc/translation_file_request.php for dict.cc dictionaries.
  2. http://www.dicts.info/uddl.php for the universal dictionary database UDDL.
  3. http://www.openthesaurus.de for the German thesaurus file
  4. http:/synonimy.ux.pl for the Polish thesaurus file.
• Create the dictionary index database. Sorry, at the moment it is a big an a non easy topic. See below.
• Copy the dictionary files and the dictionary index database to the directory /sdcard/dict of the device, so copy the files to the subdicrectory dict of the sdcard of the device. You can use adb and pull the files into the directory /sdcard/dict, you can simply attach the phone over USB in the memory card modus and copy the files into the directory dict in there, you can also pull out the sdcard from the phone, put it into the sd slot of your PC and copy the file into the directory dict on the card.
• Launch the application, use the icon dictccfe,
  
• Press the Menu button on your device and then Select dictionary, Menu and 4 should also work. The list of names of files with the extension *.db in the directory /sdcard/dict of the phone will be shown. Pick one of the dictionaries.
  
• Enter the word to translate in the TextView in the upper part of the application window and press Enter, Menu / Search exact or Menu and 2.
  
• Or enter a keyword in the SQL LIKE syntax and press Menu / Search similar or Menu and 1 to find all keywords similar to the one searched.
• You can time change the dictionaries using Menu / Selecti dictionary.

Dictionary index database

The program uses an index to the keywords in the dictionary file in order to quickly access descriptions. The index is stored in the SQLite 3 database which is accessed on every exact or similar search action. Such dictionary index database must be created prior to using the dictionary. Currently the dictionary index database can be created only by importing dictionary index files created with the C# application dict.exe. The exact format of the dictionary index database is described in the documentation of the class IdxLoader.

Importing the dictionary index created with dict.exe

See dict.exe documentation for how to create the index file using the C# application dict.exe. Copy the resulting index file, eg. deueng.idx and the dictionary file deueng.txt to the directory dict of sdcard on the device. Then select Menu / Load dictionary (or Menu / 3)

the list of dicitonaries to load should appear. In fact this is a list of files /sdcard/dict/*.idx on the device. Select one of the index files, the load process should the start. The loading of the index files can take a couple of time, depending on their size and on the device, you're using.

Compilation

• Download Android SDK http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. Download the starter package and using the GUI application android in the starter package download also additional SDK components, like described under http://developer.android.com/sdk/adding-components.html. You'll need at least the Android 1.6 SDK. You won't need eclipse or the ADT plugin.
• The application is compiled using ant, like described under http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/other-ide.html.
• Create my-release-key.keystore using

  keytool -genkey -v -keystore my-release-key.keystore -alias stoyac -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

  Evtl. adapt the name of the file and the alias name in the properties key.store and key.alias of the file build.properties. See http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/app-signing.html for a more detailed description of the signing of android applications.
• Put the path to the location of android SDK in the property sdk.dir of the file local.properties. In particular replace the defined there path /usr/local/android-sdk-linux_x86 by the path used on your system.
• Call ant release for building the apk installation package bin/DictAnd-release.apk
• Call ant -f build-javadoc.xml for creating the javadoc documentation in the directory doc.