Hanping Chinese Blog

• Fixed incomplete downloads bug
• Fixed bug when running in Turkish locale
• Improved implementation for sending email to developer
• Fixed rare exception when paging left/right on Details screen
• Several minor bug fixes

Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.4.1 & Pro 3.4.3).

• Fixed rare ABC CE database bug on some older devices (only a problem on some custom firmware running SQLite 3.7.2, for example)
• ABC EC divider  (Details screen) now shows headword if different from Details screen headword (e.g. Lookup “anyway”, then click “see: anyhow”)
• Fixed linking bug in ABC EC word definition – would sometimes get “not in dictionary” when it clearly is
• Force update of very old CC-CEDICT database installations

Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.4.1 & Pro 3.4.2).

This is a minor bug fix update on yesterday’s 3.4.0 release.

• Fixed bug in lists containing more than 100 items
• Fixed bug when reporting incorrect dictionary entry
• Fixed bug when search term includes single quote

Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.2.2 & Pro 3.4.1).

• Improved sentence decomposition – better handling of punctuation etc
• Added concept of simple vs. complex headword forms. Some words are termed “complex” maybe because a syllable has multiple pronunciations or multiple characters. Such words are shown on the Details screen with a + icon in the top right. Hit that to see the complex form of the headword
• List items only appear once – so a list of 100 words actually appears as 100 items instead of something like 106!  This was caused by a dictionary containing the same word multiple times
• Details screen now shows even more related dictionary entries. Side note: we’ve been showing entries across all dictionaries on one page since 2011
• Left/right paging on Details screen – explore neighbouring words in the dictionary
• External Links: on first use, Hanping now informs you that these third party links use the internet connection and may include advertisements (which we do not benefit from)
• External Links now includes a link to a website showing stroke animations – this is an external website and so includes advertising (which we do not benefit from)
• Improved Tags dialog
• Added support for DashClock Widget (Android 4.2+ only)
• Added support for Samsung’s Multi-Window (only on applicable devices)
• Speed improvements – particularly when searching pinyin
• Several minor bug fixes

Hanping is especially designed to support multiple dictionaries. So please consider the ABC dictionary in-app purchases for a superior Hanping experience and to help support our work.

Here you can see left/right paging in the Details screen:

Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.2.2 & Pro 3.4.0).

• Fixed ‘invisible’ example sentences in ABC Chinese-English dictionary
• Fixed tags ordering in Tags dialog
• Fixed some comma-containing links in CC-CEDICT dictionary
  

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

• New Radicals lookup (access it through overflow menu at the top-right of the screen).  If you want to enter a character and you know the radical then this new feature will help you.  Radicals are grouped by stroke-count and sorted by frequency within each group.  Click on the radical to get a list of all the characters that use that radical. Again, this list is grouped by stroke-count (actually, number of strokes not including the radical itself) and sorted by frequency within each group. Try long-pressing on radicals or characters to jump straight to the Browse screen
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• Handwriting screen now shows history of characters instead of the old gPen logo. The most recent character is shown on the right hand side. You can long press on these characters to bring them up in the Browse screen
• Added Google Image search and HanziCraft to the external links dialog
• Minor bug fixes

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

• Fixed rare handwriting crash & made some handwriting UI tweaks – now, instead of pressing the “left” arrow icon in the bottom-left corner, you press the tick icon in the bottom-right corner, to take you to the search results
• Generate vocab sheet from starred list – this allows you to share a starred list as text using Android’s powerful Share feature.  To access this feature, go to the Starred tab on the main Search screen and long-press on one of the starred lists
• Some new Hanzi colorings – introducing the brand new “hanping” coloring!  This coloring uses the same beautiful colors as “dummit” but assigns them to the tones in a different way.  We’ve also added “speccy” coloring inspired by the old ZX Spectrum. The “hanping” coloring is:
  • Tone 1 (high, flat tone) – blue – think of a flat blue lake, or a blue sky
  • Tone 2 (rising tone) – green – think of green grass growing!
  • Tone 3 (low, falling-rising tone) – orange – (we chose this one for aesthetic reasons)
  • Tone 4 (falling tone) – red – think of someone giving an angry command
• UI tweaks for large screens – some icons are a little more spaced out and some text sizes are increased a little
• Minor bug fixes

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