Api 26 introduced adaptive icons where background and foreground are two different images. https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_adaptive.html

I just installed the application, then clicked on the download icon for the English dictionary. The download manager starts but does not seem to be doing anything. After a few seconds the application reports the error "Download failed: null".

Using the DE-RU dictionary from 15/DEC/2015 with Quickdict 5.2.6 I noticed the following issues:

• there are polish words, e.g. some declinations of "Quedlinburg" and above a couple beginning with "pł"
• some words cannot be found via look-up although they are present, try "разме́р", then look up "Größe". Same with мудрость-Weisheit.
• I also saw the German word "Mythologie" on the Russian side, but I can't find it again

I use multiple translation dictionaries and straight English dictionaries too. Many times I enter a word and then I notice it is the wrong dictionary so I then switch dictionaries and the word remains in the search field but QuickDic does not use it to search. I have to delete the last character of the word then type it again to get the app to search the word.

It would make more sense when a dictionary is changed with an active search term that it then automatically searches that term.

To reproduce:

1. Enter a word and watch it automatically search that word
2. Switch dictionaries
3. Delete last letter of the search term
4. Put that letter back

Now it autosearches.

Autosearch should autosearch immediately after dictionary switch.

This should be easy to code. Just add one line to search after dictionary switch.

First of all thanks @rdoeffinger for keeping this project alive!

I find that the round materialish buttons you recently introduced in the app are useless and actually hinder usability instead of improving it.

Useless because all their actions were already 0 or 1 clicks away in the old interface:

• Searching is the default action when you enter a dictionary. The cursor is automatically in the search box and keyboard is opened. Thus we need zero clicks to get to it. Even if we clicked somewhere else, searching again required only 1 click in the search box, which is a big target that you can easily hit with your fingers.
• Clearing the current search word took 1 click in the X button to the right of the search box. Again this is a big target that no one misses.
• Switching languages also took a single click in the flag, again a big target. This one was somewhat hidden. It is hard for a new user to guess that clicking the flag changes languages. The straightforward solution would be to place (watermark) the two arrows symbol on top of the flag.

Summing up: these new buttons solve no usability issue.

Now, even worse, is the fact that they actually are a usability hindrance, because they hide important text underneath. Checkout what happens in my device:

90% of the time we use Quickdic with the keyboard opened. These new buttons take a lot of the precious little space we have left. With them, I am forced to hit the back button to hide the keyboard in order the read the translations. That's something I didn't had to do before. Thus they actually increased the number of clicks for me.

Taking this into consideration, I would urge you to remove these buttons, or at least add a preference's option to do so.

Tips for future UI improvements

The original UI by Thad Hughes is actually really good. All major actions are easy to do with it. I would exercise caution before adding modifications.

I see that you are in the mood to update it to a full blown Material UI. If so, please consider starting such work in a new branch. Besides avoiding breaking the UI on the production app, a new branch would allow you to start from scratch. It is rarely a good move to work iteratively on top of an old UI design. Better start anew and see whether applying Material solutions to this problem renders a better UI than the original Holo theme.

I use a lot this app (thanks so much) and I use it with 3 languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese so I'm constantly changing the language. I think it would be very much comfortable if we had the flag icon nearer to the finger. A solution for this could be having the bar at the bottom of the screen or between the search bar and the menu button (or both).

Changing the dictionary directory to /storage/6cc44171-88ee-40d2-b464-0d229d438e8b/Android/data/de.reimardoeffinger.quickdic/files doesn't work. The path points to an existing directory on the sdcard.

After reboot the location is lost and points back to the default `/storage/emulated/0/…´ Also after reboot the application thanks again for update to 5.1.0

ls -lZ /storage/6cc44171-88ee-40d2-b464-0d229d438e8b/Android/data/de.reimardoeffinger.quickdic/files                    
total 52732
-rwxrwx--x 1 u0_a140 sdcard_rw u:object_r:sdcardfs:s0 53932864 2017-10-26 13:45 DE.quickdic

I'm using: Version 5.4.0 (93) - Hinzugefügt am 2017-09-10 from the fdroid repository. (→ https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/de.reimardoeffinger.quickdic )

Why is it possible to download 7 times at once the same dictionary ?? When you press the download button of a dictionary currently downloading it add the download with 'the-name-5' for example.

the dutch to english (EN-NL) and german to english (EN-DE) dictionaries work fine on my phone.

the orders of the entries might be better but that is probably an issue for wiktionary??

one thing though is the title in the dictionary manager for the german to english is "EN-DE", not the names of the languages like the other ones, for example "English-Japanese" or "English-Dutch". It should be changed.

thank you so much!!! i was hoping someone would save quickdic!!!! :-)

In the Japanese-German dictionary I often, not always, experience the following:

• After pasting a kanji (from AnkiDroid) in the search box nothing happens.
• Workaround: switching to German and back, or typing something before the pasted kanji.

Sorry, it's not easily reproducible as it only happens sometimes. Not right now, of course...

EDIT: Also happens in other dictionaries. I just switched to a dictionary after having entered a word. That word was only looked up after typing something.

This is reproducible with a search term of two words ("give up") in both English dictionaries (not in FR or ES, though).

Arrays and languages are 100% translated, strings -- about 90%.

Things to note: quantity strings sourceInfo and indexInfo should really use plurals, because they name the counted objects and it means that the correct spelling depends on the actual numbers (probably never was an issue in e.g. English because no dictionary ever had just 1 word).

On LineageOS 19.1 (Android 12) it's impossible to download any dictionary, the Download Manager and the app have Internet access, but the download just won't start, it doesn't matter if the default folder is selected or a custom one, storage permission is given, but the download never starts and doesn't appear at all in the notifications drawer.

Possible Memory Leak

An anonymous inner class will hold a reference to the this pointer of the outer class and will not be released until the thread ends. It will hold the Activity and prevent its timely release. Please check the links below.

Occurrences

onCreate

Possible Solution

If it is necessary, it can be changed to static class + weak reference to eliminate the reference to the activity, which may cause memory leaks. Further discussion is welcome.

Hi, and thank you for quickdic, I use it almost daily and is become my favourite dictionary.

I often use the link to the online Wiktionary (usually to look up the conjugation/declension), but the links in quickdic lack the #anchor to the relevant language. For words common to many languages this forces me to scroll arounda lot. One ridiculous example is this page. If I came from the Italian dictionary I'd like the link to go to the Italian section. The same link from the Swedish dictionary should point to the Swedish section.

The app knows, of course, which language I'm looking for, could you add the anchor to the link?

In fact I use the online Wiktionary far more often than the offline page and it would be nice to have an option to open that directly when you click on a lemma.

When downloading multiple dictionaries, after each download/installation, the download manager will scroll to the top, interrupting user experience.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open QuickDic
2. Open its Dictionary Manager
3. Scroll down a bit
4. Under Downloadable dictionaries, download any dictionary
5. Keep scrolling

What happens:

As soon as any download (or installation) finishes, the view will jump to the top. To continue where he left off, the user has to scroll down again. This is especially cumbersome when not using search to filter text so the scrollable length of the view is very large

What should happen:

Don't jump to the top (or anywhere) when download/installation finish.

Additional info:

I'm using QuickDic 5.6.2 installed from F-Droid on Android 11.

Webpage not available The webpage at http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/anschlie%C3%9Fen could not be loaded because:

net::ERR_CLEARTEXT_NOT_PERMITTED

Perhaps this would be remedied by changing http:// to https://