Popup / Perapera style hover over dictionary for Android?

[john1111]

Hi everyone, please can anyone advise if Android has a hover over dictionary (like Popup Chinese or Pera pera Chinese) that would make it easy to look up words while browsing the web?

 

Also... is there anything similar that could be used for reading an eBook in Chinese??

 

Advice greatly appreciated!

[Clarence]

I use the app Diodict Pop. It lets you check the meaning of a word quickly with a single hold, touch and pop.

[Shelley]

I would suggest Pleco and the Pleco add on Pleco reader  this lets you read in Chinese and has rollover definitions.

 

I would recommend Pleco any way if you are learning Chinese as it does loads of useful things. Check it out https://www.pleco.com/

[Silent]

I like a good pop-up dictionary for Android too. All I've investigated up till now is not entirely what I want, but Pleco gets close. It's a while back I investigated it, so can't really recall what the issue was.

 

For reading e-books I usually convert them to html and read them with Perapera. This may however be an issue if the book is protected.

[Shelley]

Reading them with Perapera is okay on a pc but I didn't think it worked on Android.

[Silent]

True, I've interpreted op as two questions, one for Android and one for e-books, but that may be wrong. Nevertheless, if question  1  is answered there's a solution for question 2 too. But of course a dedicated solution may be more handy.

[Shelley]

I only answered part 2 of the question because I don't know the answer to part 1 I don't use Chinese websites on my tablet simply because I haven't found anything that works as well as Perapera

[gato]

Pleco's reader add-on has a built-in web browser.

[mikelove]

Our reader only has a native web browser on iOS - on Android you can 'share' a web page with the reader (which will cause it to download the page, extract the plaintext and present that to you in a reader window) but you can't tap-lookup words on web pages live. (we do also charge a lot less for the reader module on Android...)

 

The most recent manifestation of our web page reader on iOS is actually sufficiently portable that we think we might be able to bring it to Android, but both that and EPUB support are waiting on Android 4.4 (and later) to reach a more dominant market share than the < 1/3 they have now; 4.4 brought a hugely updated embeddable web browser (based on Chromium) and we'll be able to do a lot more with web reading by requiring the presence of that.

[john1111]

Thanks for the responses guys! I didn't mind whether or not it was a separate solution for websites and ebooks - I was hoping to read eBooks on an Android device. I'll have a look at Diodict!

 

I think a reader like Popup Chinese for Android would be useful for many people and would appreciate it anyone shares one on here if one comes out further down the line - of course I'll do the same!

 

I've been using iOS Pleco browser for a long time and it's great - hope to see the same features available on Android soon! BTW Does Android Pleco have the character reognition where you can do a whole page at a time??

[mikelove]

Yes, we do have OCR on Android as well as on iOS, though our Android OCR system doesn't support PDF decoding yet. (that one's waiting on Android L, which is bringing high-quality PDF support - previous versions of Android didn't have that built in, so we would have had to spend a great deal of money licensing a PDF decoder library to get it working on those)