Dictionary support

[skumarudel]

Dear,
You are doing great job!, I appreciate your effort. I have one question though:
Do you have custom dictionary support. I mean lets say I have a custom dictionary in stardict format, can I call it to lookup for words I want to while I read book in epub mode??
I have dictionary in my native language ("punjabi").
I can also help you if you like to build this feature, although I am new to app development...
Thank you in advance
Sajan

[mickael-menu]

Hi Sajan,

Unfortunately we don't yet support custom dictionaries and have no plan to implement it in the foreseeable future. However, we want to make sure that it's possible for reading apps to implement it themselves without modifying Readium's codebase. So let us know if you have any issue implementing this with the current toolkit, and how we could help you there.

[skumarudel]

Hi Mickael,
Thanks for your quick reply!
Let me first run your app in android studio to see if its working. Then I will get back to you. Do you think its easy to implement custom dictionary??I have no idea at this point, but I will try to read about this if you just guide me where to start. Thank you!

[mickael-menu]

To be fair I'm quite new on the Kotlin side of Readium, and haven't played much with the navigators yet.

But R2EpubActivity.currentSelection() looks like it could help for that. It will give you a Locator object which should contain the selected text in locator.text.highlight.

[skumarudel]

Make sense! I will try and if have any more questions I will get back to you...

[mickael-menu]

I'm transferring this issue to mobile since it might also be relevant for iOS.