Aedict

A free, open-source english-japanese dictionary for Android which uses Jim Breen's edict data. Does not require japanese keyboard. Works offline. The dictionary data is downloaded automatically.

News

What's new: http://baka.sk/aedict/changes-report.html

News on twitter: http://twitter.com/aedict

Mailing list: Aedict Users

Features

• simple user interface, tested on HTC Magic. No settings, just type a word and do a search
• Automatic download of the indexed EDict/Kanjidic/Tanaka dictionaries (Warning: the dictionaries files are quite large, e.g. English EDict zip file is 8mb long, which may take some time to download. Perform this download over a Wi-Fi or with a quick internet access if possible)
• Allows automatic download of a German/French EDict, the names dictionary and the computer terminology dictionary
• Once the dictionary is downloaded it works completely off-line
• Kanjipad for drawing and searching kanji characters
• Search kanji characters by radicals and stroke numbers
• Shows a kanji analysis in a word
• SKIP search (a search based on the kanji visual look)
• Custom dictionaries
• Optionally shows romaji instead of hiragana/katakana - good for beginner learners. Also provides a hiragana/katakana learning table.
• Search in Tanaka Example sentences
• Optional verb deinflection (e.g. searching for あえない will find あう)
• Kanji drawing order for more than 1500 kanjis
• A basic sentence translation
• Integration with Simeji
• Verb conjugations with example sentences
• Integrates with Android Search (Android 1.6 or higher only)

Aedict requires Android 1.5 or higher.

Screenshots

Download

Available at the Android Market. Just search for "aedict" or browse the Travel category. To download the Indexer please follow the Downloads link.

Tips

• To access various parts of Aedict quickly, use AnyCut to create shortcuts (e.g. to Kanjipad), see FAQ for details
• You can use notepad as an advanced clipboard: just create a category named 'temp' and copy items there.
• To access the verb conjugation quiz, just long-click on a verb, either when in the main screen, notepad, or search results.

FAQ

Please find the FAQ page here. More documentation here.

Acknowledgements

Aedict uses:

• Jim Breen's excellent edict dictionary
• Apache Lucene for quick search
• Maven+Masa to build
• Kanji Recognizer (C) by Todd David Rudick, http://www.cs.arizona.edu/projects/japan/JavaDict/
• SKIP code system (C) by Jack Halpern
• Stroke Order Diagram Editor-Retrographer (SODER) (C) by James Rose
• Conjugation chart with example sentences (C) by Tim R. Matheson

Donate

If you like the application, please feel free to donate:

BitCoin address: 1KJyEutxrm3yL7chvsciMJTvXahXoWE3Pw

PayPal:

The following people donated a money to the development team (me) and their bug reports will be fixed with high priority :-)

• Finlay Stewart
• Paul Qureshi
• and others - thank you all very much for your donations! Dear donors, if you wish your name to appear in this list, please just contact me.