WWWJDIC for Android

Android frontend for Jim Breen's WWWJDIC

News

• 2012/3/28
• v2.2.3 released. Fixes OCR crash, typos.
• 2012/3/25
• v2.2.2 released. Fixes widget layout bug, was crashing some launchers.
• 2012/3/24
• v2.2.1 released. See below for changes
• The project is now two years old. (first release: 0.1, 2010/03/12)
• 2011/11/7
• Bugfix release: v2.1.1. See below for changes.
• 2011/11/7
• Now on Google+
• 2011/11/6
• Version 2.1 released. See below for changes
• 2011/9/30
• Version 2.0 featuring support for tablets and Japanese text-to-speech released. See below for other changes.
• 2011/8/30
• Featured in MOONGIFT (Japanese Open Source Software magazine)

Handwriting Recognition

If you are looking for handwriting recognition for Japanese/Chinese, try:

• Kanji Recognizer
• Hanzi Recognizer

All versions after 1.3 integrate with Kanji Recognizer.

Changelog

• v2.2.3
• Avoid OCR crash on devices without flash
• Don't clear translation query string for OCR
• Fixed typos
• v2.2.2
• Fixed widget detailed layout bug
• v2.2.1
• Use larger action bar tab and menu font for Japanese
• v2.2
• Improved UI and icons
• Italian, Wordnet and Combined dictionaries
• Share action
• Sequential mode for widget
• Widget preferences in Settings
• Performance optimizations
• Handle WWWJDIC maintenance
• v2.1.1
• Fixed Japanese TTS bug
• Avoid crash when opening Settings in landscape mode
• Improved error reporting
• v2.1
• Text-to-speech for example sentences
• Multiple Japanese TTS engines support (Settings)
• Android 4.0 (ICS) consistent UI
• ICS support
• Bug fixes
• v2.0
• Tablet support
• New UI
• Japanese text-to-speech support (install N2 TTS from Market to enable)
• Removed Google account permissions and Google Docs export
• Various improvements and bug fixes
• Dropped Android 1.6 support. The lowest supported version is now 2.1 (Eclair).
• v1.8.7 New example search
• Use new example search: automatically matches inflected, differently spelled words
• Support OCR for gallery images
• Bug fixes
• v1.8.6 New Sweden mirror
• Use new Sweden mirror site
• Updated third-party libraries
• v1.8.5 Performance optimization and bug fixes
• Fix for empty search results on some mobile networks
• Performance optimizations
• Bug fixes
• v1.8.4 New Japan mirror
• Switched to new Japan mirror
• Properly display kanji grade in kanji details
• Bug fixes

The full changelog can be found here.

Features

• Japanese text-to-speech for dictionary entry/kanji pronunciation, as well as example sentences
• Text-to-speech for kanji and dictionary entries translation (English/German/French/Spanish)
• Multi-radical kanji search.
• Kanji of the day widget, can limit scope by JLPT level
• Japanese sentence translation.
• example search with approximately 150,000 examples (Japanese/English pairs)
• example breakdown/translation
• history/favorites
• CSV import/export
• favorites export to Google Docs
• favorites Anki Export
• filtering by type (dictionary/kanji/examples)
• animated stroke order diagrams for over 6000 kanji
• handwritten kanji recognition
• high-accuracy vector-based handwritten recogntion
• OCR-based handwritten kanji recognition, does not require correct stroke order
• OCR
• multiple dictionary lookup (General/Japanese Names/Computing/Life Sciences and more)
• multiple languages supported (German/French/Russian/Swedish/Hungarian/Spanish/Dutch/Slovenian)
• romaji input
• kanji lookup by reading, English meaning, radical number, stroke count and code (Unicode/JIS)
• radical table showing radical variations

Screenshots

Here

Requirements

Should run on any device with 1.6 or higher. Developed and tested on HTC Magic and Nexus One.

Uses the WWWJDIC online service, requires Internet connection.

Dictionary search supports romaji lookup, but you need a Japanese IME to use all features. Try OpenWnn/Flick if you don't have one.

Download

Download from the Market (Referecne category) or use the QR code below:

Donate version also available.

Acknowledgements

• Thanks to Jim Breen for all his nihongo work and for adding raw output to WWWJDIC.
• Thanks to the WeOCR Project for providing the OCR service.
• Uses the kanji recognizer at kanji.sljfaq.org
• Uses KanjiVG data for stroke order diagrams