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Improving the search for words #52

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MagTun opened this issue Apr 17, 2022 · 0 comments
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Improving the search for words #52

MagTun opened this issue Apr 17, 2022 · 0 comments
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MagTun commented Apr 17, 2022

Hi,
Thanks a lot for your app. It's really great. I have a couple suggestions. They are a bit particular because I am using the app for the "Wiktionary Explore" features. Currently, there is no good Android app for Wiktionary. Or actually, there was one "WikiSurfer for Wiktionary", but it will stop working in a couple of weeks (it's already difficult to reach Wiktionary with it because of a "PROTOCOL_ERROR"). That means that, like me, a lot of people will probably use your app from now on. It could probably become much more popular. But there are a couple of things that could make the app easier to use for the "Wiktionary Explore" and increase the chance you will get 5 stars on Google Play.

It would be great if:

  1. only the available languages for a specific word were listed when clicking the "language" icon (cf. 1 on the printscreen 1)
  2. the word at the top of the page were actually an "input text" so that we can directly search for a new word from the page and not have to come back on the previous "search" page. (cf. 2 on the printscreen 1)
  3. there were a "navigation pane" on a word page so that we could easily jump to a specific language (cf. 3 on the printscreen 1) and also between sections inside a language. You can see how it was done by "WikiSurfer for Wiktionary" on printscreen 2
  4. the last selected languages were at the top of the languages list (instead of alphabetical order)
  5. when searching for a word, the result would be automatically displayed when typing instead of having to press "Enter/Search". That would also fix two current "bugs": a) the search is pretty slow compare to "WikiSurfer for Wiktionary" and "EveryWiki: Wikipedia++" and b) when searching for a word, sometimes the suggestions are weird. For example, if I want to search for "ontstaan", and I press "Enter" when I have only written "onstaa", then not result are found (the search is done on Wiktionary English)
  6. there were a global context menu (that would work in any other app), to search for the selected word in Spell4wiki.

Printscreen 1

Printscreen 2

I know that it's a lot of requests. I can open separate issue/feature requests if needed, but I didn't want to post many requests right away. Let me know if this is needed.

Anyway, thanks a lot again for your app and for the time you invest int it.

@MagTun MagTun added the enhancement New feature or request label Apr 17, 2022
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