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Description

This is the mobile (Android ~~& iOS~~) client of SilverDict, considered feature-complete now.

I cannot develop the iOS version because I don't have a Mac or a 99 USD/year Apple Developer account. If you would like to help, please contact me.

Roadmap

~~Perhaps before I do anything else, I should switch to Kotlin (which would make so many things easier) since I won't develop for iOS.~~

Kotlin's all Greek to me, so I'll stick with JavaScript for now.

Basic UI (Search, History/Suggestion, Settings, etc.)
Go back/forwards in local history
Zoom in/out and remember the zoom level
Find in page
Tap to search
Dictionary/Group management
Two-column view on wider screens
Localisation
Launch SilverDict from context menu (that is, when you select a word in another app, you can choose to search for it in SilverDict. Also this would make it integrate better with e-book readers.)

Issues

Dynamic screen width in WebView (if you rotate from portrait to landscape, the WebView will not be resized)
The WebView takes too long to load (1 - 300 ms). When the entire Dark Reader library is loaded, the minimum could be as long as 100 ms.

Development

Prerequisites

React Native (without Expo), Android SDK, Xcode, etc.
A working SilverDict server for testing
React Native Paper
React Navigation

Build

yarn install
yarn start
yarn android

Note

The Dark Reader extension is taken from the NPM package, uglified and turned into a string to make it injectable into the WebView.

There has been a huge update to the web UI recently, which might supersede this project completely, since it doesn't have any Android system integration yet…