Why I built a dictionary app

Re:Why I built a dictionary app by xtreak29 on Sunday July 31, 2022 @10:51PM (#32301396)

I too wrote a similar app for my personal problem and also served to be a good way to learn about kotlin and Android ecosystem. I also tried a rewrite in flutter and compose. The idea was to use select the word and then click meaning from context menu so that meaning occurs as notification and disappears in 15 seconds. I used Wiktionary as dataset source and app works offline.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xtreak.not...

https://github.com/tirkarthi/NotificationDictionary

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Re:Why I built a dictionary app by zehfernandes on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:01AM (#32301910)

Hey @xtreak29, that's awesome. I wish had found your repo sooner and use your wikidictionary parser tool, so good. Thanks for sharing.

I loved that you built the context menu it's something I was thinking to. Congratulations.

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Re:Why I built a dictionary app by jdthedisciple on Monday August 01, 2022 @02:13AM (#32302663)

> I also tried a rewrite in flutter

Tried? Mind elaborating? I'm working on a flutter app atm - do you mean it didn't work out? / you didn't end up liking flutter?

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Re:Why I built a dictionary app by xtreak29 on Monday August 01, 2022 @11:51AM (#32307812)

I used rewriting as a learning experience. I found flutter to be simpler with respect to UI and state management compared to using XML by default for UI. Since mine was a crud app flutter was okay. I later found jetpack compose which has flutter like UI composition and I liked it better since I can access the existing Android library ecosystem too.

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Re:Why I built a dictionary app by Apocryphon on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @11:41AM (#32399443)

Will you release it to the iOS App Store as well?

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