This contains a few minor bug fixes to the recently-released 2.8.0 which added support for the ABC English-Chinese Dictionary (as in-app purchase).
Available from the Android Market.
When you search using English, Hanping Pro performs a lookup on the ABC English-Chinese dictionary first. If no exact matches are found then the search falls back to the CC-CEDICT dictionary. The icon in the top-left of the screen indicates which dictionary was used to give the current search results.
Please note, this dictionary does not currently include a Chinese index, so searching by Chinese will still only give results from the CC-CEDICT dictionary (or ABC Chinese-English dictionary if you have that installed). We are looking to improve on this in the near future.
Currently, it is not possible to star English words. This will be coming shortly. In the meantime, use the History to refer back to English words you have previously looked up.
As with app purchases, you only need to purchase the ABC English-Chinese Dictionary once to then use on all of your devices. The purchase is linked to your Google account, so any Android device where you are signed into the Google account (and has Android Market, which is used to check the license), will have access to the paid dictionary.
Android Market issues are the same as with app purchases. If you are in China/Taiwan, you will probably need to do a sim swap to make the purchase. This is a pain but only needs to be done once. Please read this for more details.
Known issues:
Available from the Android Market.
Available from the Android Market.
Available from the Android Market.
Users running Cyanogen Mod: If you have purchased the ABC Chinese-English dictionary you may have noticed the formatting of the dictionary entry (on the Browse screen) does not include any indentation (i.e. each line is flush against the left hand edge of the screen). This is a known problem (Issue 3301)with Cyanogen Mod and hopefully they will fix it soon. As a knock on effect, you may notice that sometimes the highlighting of a link does not line up with the link itself. We suspect most users will not find this to be a big issue.
Available from the Android Market.
The Pro version now includes an in-app product for the superb ABC Chinese-English Dictionary.
Here are the highlights:
When you search using Chinese characters or Pinyin, Hanping Pro performs a lookup on the ABC dictionary first. If no exact matches are found then the search falls back to the CC-CEDICT dictionary. The icon in the top-left of the screen indicates which dictionary was used to give the current search results.
Please note, this dictionary does not currently include an English index, so searching by English will still only give results from the CC-CEDICT dictionary. We are looking to improve on this in the near future.
Many of the entries for common words include longer definitions and example sentences. To see some of these, bring up the hsk1 list, click on the first entry (to bring up the Browse screen) and browse down through the words (either using the down arrow icon or the fling-up gesture).
As with app purchases, you only need to purchase the ABC dictionary once to then use on all of your devices. The purchase is linked to your Google account, so any Android device where you are signed into the Google account (and has Android Market, which is used to check the license), will have access to the ABC dictionary.
Android Market issues are the same as with app purchases. If you are in China/Taiwan, you will probably need to do a sim swap to make the purchase. This is a pain but only needs to be done once. Please read this for more details.
Known issues:
Significant changes:
You now have the possibility to use your own Chinese font instead of the one included by default on your Android device (and without the need to root your phone).
Place the TTF font (for example C:\Windows\Fonts\simkai.ttf) on your SD card here:
/Android/data/com.embermitre.dictroid/zh/fonts
(you will need to create this directory yourself, though usually “/Android/data will already have been created”)
You can do this by mounting your SD card so that you can access it from your PC.
Finally, you need to restart Hanping (you may need to Force Stop it first).
Unfortunately paid Android apps are currently unavailable in China & Taiwan amongst others (for a full list of paid-app countries see here although it’s not always up-to-date).
Android Market determines your “country” by checking which country your sim card comes from. If it comes from a paid-app supported country then you will be able to view, buy and download paid apps. Otherwise, they will be hidden away from you.
So, the simplest way to buy paid apps is to temporarily swap out your Chinese/Taiwanese sim card for another sim card from a paid-app country. It does NOT need to be active (you can connect to the Market using WiFi). With your US or UK or German sim card in place, you should be able to buy paid apps. Once you have done so, you can swap back in your Chinese/Taiwanese sim card and happily use your new paid app trouble-free.
If you do not have a paid-app-country sim card then unfortunately things are more complex. Please read about MarketEnabler.
More information can be found here.
