Hanping Chinese Blog

This is an important bug fix update on 3.6.1 which sometimes fails to launch correctly.

• Added backspace button to handwriting & radicals screens
• Fixed serious potential bug when launching app
• Some other bug fixes

Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.6.0 & Pro 3.6.2).

This is a minor bugfix update on 3.6.0.

• Fixed problem where widget was sometimes blank on some Samsung devices
• Some minor bug fixes

Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.5.3 & Pro 3.6.1).

Lots of work under the covers in this update, but still plenty of goodies too!

• Brand new Homescreen Widget design (Android Honeycomb 3.1 and later, only). Resizable and text auto-sizes to fit widget. Supports tone coloring, custom fonts, Pinyin, Zhuyin and night mode. Swipe up/down and move through the words in a list. Note: Android version prior to Jelly Bean 4.2 cannot re-layout the text as the widget’s size is changed. Try adding multiple widgets to speed up your learning!

Shows the various configurations possible with the brand new Hanping Widgets

• Better Zhuyin support – on Details screen, Zhuyin displays vertically to the right of each character

Zhuyin now displays to the right of each character (on the Details screen)

• Performance improvements – startup time should be faster
• Some bug fixes

Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.5.3 & Pro 3.6.0).

This is a small update on 3.5.1 released last week.

• Custom tone coloring!
• Fixed left/right swipe bug (bug introduced in 3.5.0)
• Fixed bug starring words containing spaces
• Some minor bug fixes

Available from the Google Play Store (Pro 3.5.2 & Lite 3.5.1).

This is a micro update on 3.5.0 released a few days ago.

• Improved ABC abbreviation info – now includes long explanations for most of the abbreviations (see screenshot)
• Added more menu options to Details screen – now you can access Settings, About etc from the Details screen
• Added Skritter (add word) to Links – only relevant if you have a Skritter account
• Fixed some Flash problems in Links – MOE and Skritter links use Flash so now, instead of taking you to the browser, you are taken to an internal browser view with Flash enabled (assuming you have it installed). Some browsers (e.g. Chrome) do not support Flash content even if you have Flash installed
• Tidied up expand/collapse icons
• Sample text in Settings now according to Night Mode setting
• Some minor bug fixes (updated actionbar library, text in Details actionbar was not always fitting properly etc)

Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.4.3 & Pro 3.5.1).

• Added Backup/Restore feature – starred words, search history prefs are bundled into a single zip file which you can then place somewhere for safekeeping (and restore from at a later date). Please note: this is NOT a sync feature so is not useful if you use more than one device at the same time. However, this is extremely useful should you wipe your device (or SD card) or buy a new device
• ABC dictionary abbreviations now clickable – ever wondered what things like B.F, CL, P.W etc mean?  Now you can just click on them to find out
• Added support for colored pinyin/zhuyin – because in many ways it makes more sense to color-by-tone on the phonetic rather than the hanzi
• Improved Settings screen – now when you change the chinese display settings you instantly get to see how those changes would appear in the app, by way of sample text
• Improved Voice Recognition configuration – long-press on microphone icon brings up a dialog where you can specify which language (Chinese, English or System Default) to recognize. Simple press on the microphone icon will use the previous setting. For convenience, clicking on System Default will bring up the system settings screen for voice recognition
• Old +/- top-right icon changed to expand/collapse icon and moved above the blue line at the top of the screen
• Added Google Translate to Links dialog – if you have Google Translate app installed, you will be prompted to choose whether to open the link in the Browser or Google Translate app. Hint: select the Google Translate app and hit Always!
• Better back button behaviour – there was a problem related to when Hanping was launched from the homescreen widget
• Fixed bug in ABC EC links – one of the link types was bringing up the wrong word
• 〇 was not being recognized as hanzi
• Some minor bug fixes

Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.4.3 & Pro 3.5.0).