Aard 2
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About Aard 2
Aard 2 is a simple dictionary and offline Wikipedia reader. Aard 2 is a successor to Aard Dictionary. It comes with redesigned user interface, better dictionary storage format, bookmarks, history and other features and improvements.
The app itself doesn't include any dictionaries and doesn't provide a way to download dictionaries from within the app. Visit http://aarddict.org to find dictionary downloads - Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote , Wikivoyage in many languages, FreeDict dictionaries, WordNet
Aard 2 uses new dictionary format (dictionary files have .slob file name extension) and cannot use dictionaries in Aard Dictionary's .aar format.
Features
Lookup
• Lookup queries are punctuation, diacritics and case insensitive.
Bookmarks and History
• Visited articles are automatically added to history and appear in History tab. Articles can also be bookmarked (tap Bookmark icon when viewing article). Bookmarked articles appear in Bookmarks tab. Bookmarks and history can be filtered and sorted by time or article title. Both bookmarks and history are limited to a 100 of most recently used items. To remove bookmark or history record, long tap a list item to enter selection mode, tap items to be removed, tap Trash Can icon and confirm. A bookmark can also be removed by tapping Bookmark icon when viewing article.
Dictionary Management
• Dictionaries can be added by scanning device or by manually selecting dictionary files.
Note that application itself does not download dictionary files.
• Opened dictionaries can be ordered by marking and unmarking them as "favorite" (tap dictionary title). Lookup results of equal match strength from multiple dictionaries are presented in the order of dictionary list. Dictionaries can also be deactivated. Inactive dicts do not participate in word lookup or random article lookup, but are still available when opening bookmarks, history or when following links in other articles. Unwanted dictionaries can also be completely removed from the program (but dictionary files are not deleted).
Article Appearance
• Dictionaries may include alternate style sheets. User may also add custom style sheets via Settings tab. Dictionary built-in and user styles appear in the "Style..." menu in article view.
Math
• Mathematical articles are rendered as text using MathJax (http://www.mathjax.org/) - scalable, styleable, beautiful on any screen.
Random Article
• Tapping application logo in main activity finds a random title in an active dictionary and opens corresponding articles. User may optionally limit random lookup to only use favorite dictionaries.
Volume Buttons Navigation
• When viewing articles, volume up/down buttons scroll article content or, if at the bottom (top) of the page, move to the next (previous) article. Long press scrolls all the way to the bottom (top).
• In main view volume buttons cycle through tabs.
Fullscreen Mode
• On Android 4.4 and newer articles can be viewed in fullscreen mode. Pull down the top edge to exit fullscreen mode.
Requested Permissions
android.permission.INTERNET
Aard 2 uses local embedded web server to provide article content. This
permission is necessary to run the server.
Also, articles may reference remote content such as images. This
permission is necessary to load it.
android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
User chooses when to allow loading remote content: always,
when on Wi-Fi or never. This permission is necessary to implement
this.
android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
This permission is needed to access dictionary files on external storage.
android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
This permission is needed for some devices (such as devices running BlackBerry 10 OS) to access dictionary files on external storage.
The app itself doesn't include any dictionaries and doesn't provide a way to download dictionaries from within the app. Visit http://aarddict.org to find dictionary downloads - Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote , Wikivoyage in many languages, FreeDict dictionaries, WordNet
Aard 2 uses new dictionary format (dictionary files have .slob file name extension) and cannot use dictionaries in Aard Dictionary's .aar format.
Features
Lookup
• Lookup queries are punctuation, diacritics and case insensitive.
Bookmarks and History
• Visited articles are automatically added to history and appear in History tab. Articles can also be bookmarked (tap Bookmark icon when viewing article). Bookmarked articles appear in Bookmarks tab. Bookmarks and history can be filtered and sorted by time or article title. Both bookmarks and history are limited to a 100 of most recently used items. To remove bookmark or history record, long tap a list item to enter selection mode, tap items to be removed, tap Trash Can icon and confirm. A bookmark can also be removed by tapping Bookmark icon when viewing article.
Dictionary Management
• Dictionaries can be added by scanning device or by manually selecting dictionary files.
Note that application itself does not download dictionary files.
• Opened dictionaries can be ordered by marking and unmarking them as "favorite" (tap dictionary title). Lookup results of equal match strength from multiple dictionaries are presented in the order of dictionary list. Dictionaries can also be deactivated. Inactive dicts do not participate in word lookup or random article lookup, but are still available when opening bookmarks, history or when following links in other articles. Unwanted dictionaries can also be completely removed from the program (but dictionary files are not deleted).
Article Appearance
• Dictionaries may include alternate style sheets. User may also add custom style sheets via Settings tab. Dictionary built-in and user styles appear in the "Style..." menu in article view.
Math
• Mathematical articles are rendered as text using MathJax (http://www.mathjax.org/) - scalable, styleable, beautiful on any screen.
Random Article
• Tapping application logo in main activity finds a random title in an active dictionary and opens corresponding articles. User may optionally limit random lookup to only use favorite dictionaries.
Volume Buttons Navigation
• When viewing articles, volume up/down buttons scroll article content or, if at the bottom (top) of the page, move to the next (previous) article. Long press scrolls all the way to the bottom (top).
• In main view volume buttons cycle through tabs.
Fullscreen Mode
• On Android 4.4 and newer articles can be viewed in fullscreen mode. Pull down the top edge to exit fullscreen mode.
Requested Permissions
android.permission.INTERNET
Aard 2 uses local embedded web server to provide article content. This
permission is necessary to run the server.
Also, articles may reference remote content such as images. This
permission is necessary to load it.
android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
User chooses when to allow loading remote content: always,
when on Wi-Fi or never. This permission is necessary to implement
this.
android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
This permission is needed to access dictionary files on external storage.
android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
This permission is needed for some devices (such as devices running BlackBerry 10 OS) to access dictionary files on external storage.
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Free
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Android
4.0.3+
4.0.3+
Android app
App History & Updates
What's Changed
- Long tap on an external link shares the link
- Added Norwegian Bokmål translation
- Added Brazilian Portuguese translation
- Long tap on an external link shares the link
- Added Norwegian Bokmål translation
- Added Brazilian Portuguese translation
Version update Aard 2 was updated to version 0.37
More downloads Aard 2 reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
Version update Aard 2 was updated to version 0.34
More downloads Aard 2 reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
What are users saying about Aard 2
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Excellent offline Reader. Blazingly fast. Updated dictionaries. Downloads article Pictures only to Save Storage space. Can handle extremely large Data Sets like the English Wikipedia. Very easy to use.
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Great application useful for everyday use as well as information collecting Thank You
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A worthy successor to the aard dictionary not only use one line but if she was the space you can download dictionaries as well. I'm dyslexic and find definitions to be very useful when reading complex documents. It's only flaw and this is a big one is an over complicated way of making text Baker and if I know your own fonts display. If we could skip the CSS complexity and just show a menu increase the font size and trees a font of external memory this would be a 5
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It awesome. It works fast and extremely clean. It is open source. Much better then multi-million competitors. Author, keep up the good work!
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I loved it, the design, the layout, and particularly, the search feature in Aard. The searching is fast and seamless. If there's anything that could be improved on, in my opinion, that would be to allow user to easily cancel out from the "scanning" for dictionaries part during the initial first run.
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Material design would be nice, otherwise pretty solid
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Open Source, fast. Better than the web ;-)
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Need pop-up window
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I use it as a pop-up dictionary for Cool Reader and FBReader. Does a good job as such. For a stand-alone dictionary there are better app choices, though. I also remember Aard 2 being difficult to set up: took a while to find decent dictionary archives.
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its a big star????????
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can you find the reason why it freeze?
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With spelling suggestion, and press and hold definition lookup or using the share menu, it would be the perfect offline wikipedia app.
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Superb Offline Wikipedia And Dictionary's
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Faster search and loading, and UI improvements would be good... add a popup feature to use this app from other third party apps, also add a search button when in "text selection mode" to quickly search for a word... add the ability to show/hide parts of "definitions" by expanding/collapsing them as the definition pages of wikitionary is too big... also release an edition of English wikitionary without the "translations" part
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Why.. in the name of God.. isn't this listed on F-Droid. I HATE the Play Store!
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I particularly like searching in multiple dictionaries at once and how it seamlessly integrates online content. Do you plan to add indexing for multi word keys or even better for content?
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I am using both Aard and Aard2 but I need more dictionary and encyclopedia like: 1. enwikibooks 2. enwikisource 3. kmwiki 4. Eng-Khmer and Khmer-Eng dictionary Many thanks if I have these and I'll donate it. And if you sell them online, it is OK.
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Excellent offline dictionary I have ever used. It is worth giving 5 star but I have limited my rating to 4 for non implementation of text to speech feature. I will come back and give five star when you implement the text to speech feature...
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Altogether a great app, whose flexibility saved me much trouble and let me reimplement some dictionaries easily that I would not have gotten without distracting ads otherwise.
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best app for offline wikipedia and dictionaries. also avaikable are open source tools to make your own dicts for thjs app! fantastic
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can you find the reason why it freeze?
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Black theme, bold characters. . . . 5+
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Can't live without it! Thanks.
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Useful for keeping popular articles in handy without Internet connection.
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It works great with my Moon-Reader+
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Great just need more updated dictionarys
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Very good
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عالیه
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Excellent
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Everyone should have this app, it is very useful , just download the slob files and enjoy wikibidia offline on your phone. This app helped me alot specially in my studying career.
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An indispensable companion worth its weight in gold.
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Perfect
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Nice tnx
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With spelling suggestion, and press and hold definition lookup or using the share menu, it would be the perfect offline wikipedia app.
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Love the MoonReader integration. I prefer this to ColorDict
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Can't live without it!
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زبان عربی دیتابیس بیس آفلاین ندارد مانند زبان های دیگر. یعنی دیتابیس بیس با فرمت slob ندارد. و این برنامه از فرمت های دیگر پشتیبانی نمی کند. Not file. slob for language Arabic
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Superb Offline Wikipedia And Dictionary's
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I've tried other dictionaries, and this one's my favorite, with the right balance of features and minimalist design
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Great