DEX pentru Android -și offline

Adrian Vintu

About this app

DEX for Android is an OFFLINE and online Romanian Explanatory Dictionary (Dicționar Explicativ Român) based on the well-known http://dexonline.ro, while being packed together with educational games and containing many options for configuration.


Widget config

For the widget to work you need to:
1. install DEX application on the internal memory - the widget won't work if you move the app to the external card (limitation from Android)
2. install the offline database

Install offline database

A. Install automatically the offline database (on the internal card) by choosing the last option 'Download file' from the 'Preferences' screeen
or
B. Install manually the offline database - see tutorial. This method does not work for Android 11+.

Features

● over 500.000 dictionary entries
● works online or offline
● has two nice widgets
● share definitions on facebook, email etc
● create your own word list for later review - can be shared
● history of searched words
● lots of interface preferences in the Preferences screen, like: language, fonts, white/dark theme, etc
● can search with wildcards ? * and +
● the app helps the uses by autocompleting words
● have fun with the Hangman game
● have fun with the Word Mill game
● Word of the Day (+ widget)
● Word of the Month
● Top Words
● Psihologia românilor inteligenți
● History, Favorites and game scores are synced in the cloud
● you can send request to the developer for extra features

Marshmallow

For those who do not receive the Word of the Day notification, the Dose feature may be the issue. See below for details
https://goo.gl/OckkAu
http://goo.gl/nNMMJU

Permissions

The app requires permissions for what Google Play reports as Photos/Media/Files:
● read, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage: because it needs access to the sdcard in case you download the offline database

● WAKE_LOCK, FOREGROUND_SERVICE: added option to automatically download offline database in the internal memory - see Preferences screen. Because of this, these two new permissions are required

● RECORD_AUDIO if you want to use your voice for input, instead of typing

● INSTALL_SHORTCUT add new icon on the home screen to start the application directly going to microphone (see Preferences - install shortcut on start screen)

See my other free apps

Istoria Românilor pentru Android http://ir.adrianvintu.net
Istoria Românilor pentru Windows Phone http://ir.adrianvintu.net
User Dictionary Manager (UDM) http://udm.adrianvintu.net
DEX pentru Windows Phone http://dex-wp.adrianvintu.net
DEX pentru Android http://dex.adrianvintu.net

Ratings and reviews

It randomly stops working when I search for words, giving some socket timeout error. I'm not sure what the point of using sockets is, as I already have the dictionary file downloaded. And as other users mentioned, there's a lot of bloat in this app, and some searches put an article written by the developer at the top of the results.

Fabulous! The offline availability of database - brilliant idea. So, you can use the app even when Internet is down. Voice search - very handy. Also, the word games are a good idea - I'm not a gaming fan, but these games I play. Very useful features - history, list of favourite words, widgets. Good functionality, lots of preferences to set. The very best Romanian dictionary app so far. Excellent quality, hard to find in free apps, no annoying ads. All in all, the very best. Thank you so much!

This is my first written review so please bare with me. I wonder how I didn't do this before. I am not a qualified tester, but I know a good app when I see one, and thankfully, Dex pentru Android is "ce qu'il faut". There is an author that writes bold articles that are on point and that I want to find the time to read more. I love the fact that I can see more about the etymology of words and that I can add favorite words. Something tells me the developer is not even in the final form.

What's new

Faster speech recognition