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Eugene Muzychenko
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Could you please extend search feature to full article text, including synonims, other language translations etc.? I think it might be a very powerful feature allowing the user to easily find a word by its pronunciation, synonims/antonyms, description, other language translation. The latter, in fact, will bring a bi-lingual feature with no significant functionality modification.

Interface extension might be very simple (a "search in article text too" checkbox), or a bit more complex ("search in etymology/pronunciation/noun/verb/adjective/translations...").


29-Jan-18, 10:01:52 Rispondi | Citazione | Report spam
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The proposal is good, but the issue is that the dictionary is highly compressed inside the application itself.
In order to minimize the memory footprint, we use deep compression and we do not unpack/expand the dictionary in the device memory.

The advantage of our implementation is to avoid wasting further memory in the device, as other dictionaries instead do; but we have a drawback that the free search in the whole dictionary takes long time and consumes CPU and battery.

In future we will look in improving this, but currently we are working on other features and improvements.


29-Jan-18, 18:31:00 Rispondi | Citazione | Report spam
Eugene Muzychenko
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Thank you for the explanation, I understood your reason.

But there are many devices with large (2-3 GB and more) RAM inside. So you might add a checkbox to application settings, like "uncompress the dictionary on startup to enable full-text search (may be slow and consume RAM!)". Maybe a word list from the "translations" chapter might be added as a separate index.

I understand that it may require a significant amount of code and work so it's just for your information. Your dictionaries are excellent, such small, fast and powerfull apps are rare now.


30-Jan-18, 8:59:09 Rispondi | Citazione | Report spam
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In fact we are aiming to mantain our applications small, safe, fast and powerful without compromising battery life, user experience and memory usage. In future we might extend our applications according to your suggestions, but we are already full booked at least till mid 2019.



30-Jan-18, 18:47:56 Rispondi | Citazione | Report spam