For any of you running MIUI 11 (which is the system running on most Xiaomi devices released in the past couple of years), you might have experienced an issue with the AnkiDroid Flashcards integration. The first time you select AnkiDroid Flashcards from Hanping’s side navigation drawer, you will be presented with: Tapping on Grant Permission would normally take you forward to configure the AnkiDroid configuration, but on MIUI 11 it fails and you are taken back to Hanping’s main screen instead.

Hanping Chinese Dictionary, I say Is 10 years old today! More updates on the way Wishing Happy Birthday!

Added support for pinyin/jyutping abbreviation search. Now you can type “wsm” or “wshm” instead of “weishenme” for faster lookups! One good strategy is to just enter the first character of each syllable (e.g. “zgr” for “zhongguoren”) and, if there are too many matches, then finish the final syllable in full (e.g. “zgren” for “zhongguoren”) Added some missing HSK2-5 multisyllable sounds (Hanping Pro only) Fixed bug in vocab importer (mostly concerning traditional Chinese) Fixed Ankidroid audio playback issue (when dictionary app not already running in background) Fixed backup/restore issue Updated CC-CEDICT dictionary data and Tutor Mandarin example sentences Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a minor update including: Updated dictionary, examples and stroke data Accessibility improvements Nice animation in search box Several bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This update is for Android Marshmallow 6.0 and later. Improved handwriting/radicals UI Fixed some China-related bugs Updated dictionary data (CC-CEDICT/CANTODICT) (Hanping Cantonese app only) Fixed some issues with CANTODICT examples Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This update is for Android Marshmallow 6.0 and later. Added Import User Vocab feature to allow bulk import of words into your custom tags. In the Tags tab, click on the 3-dots icon top-right (just below Tags label) and select Import user vocab file. You can then pick any text file and Hanping will automatically extract vocab from it. Note - the text file should contain a vocab list (e.g. one vocab item per line), not freeform text.

More export options (long-tap on tag in Tags tab). Now you can also export your tagged (as well as built-in tags like HSK) words to a text file with all custom taggings & starrings included Performance improvements (e.g. regarding tag lists) (Mandarin apps only) Added another 100 example sentences (provided by TutorMandarin) Clip Monitor Quick Settings Tile tweaks Many bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Updated Cantodict dictionary data and example sentences Available from the Google Play Store.

Updated ABC dictionaries and formatting - please go to Add Ons screen to perform update (Hanping Pro only) Added part-of-speech to ABC brief definitions (e.g. in search results and Anki export) (Hanping Pro only) Added Soundboard shortcut (Android 7.1+) - long-tap on launcher icon. You can also long-tap on shortcut to pin to homescreen Fixed downloading add-ons from China Fixed widget color bug Better support for Chinese headwords containing non-Hanzi Fixed Invite Friends (navigation drawer) - use this to send others a Play Store link to install Hanping Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

We’ve made it easier to hear all the Chinese sounds by adding a Soundboard (accessible from the left Navigation drawer) to the Hanping dictionary apps. This is similar to our Hanping SoundBox app (which is going to be slowly phased out). Single-Syllable Sounds All our dictionary apps now include the ability to hear (in one place) the audio for every single-syllable sound. Tones that never occur or are extremely rare are greyed out.

Add notes to any word - this allows you to add your own translations/meanings/comments to any word regardless of whether it is already in a dictionary or not More consistent sorting of tagged items (when you click on a tag in the Tags tab) Removed “tagged items” button from Tags tab (tap on CUSTOM label instead) Better syncing of tagging changes with AnkiDroid (Note: Hanping Lite does not support AnkiDroid export) - deselecting a tag will now deselect it from AnkiDroid (if auto-export is enabled) Improved first-time install experience - nice circular progress bar and better handling of restoring from backups Updated dictionary data (CC-CEDICT, CANTODICT) Several bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Tag from within clipboard notifications (Android N) Improved clipboard notification styling (choose between old Hanping style and new System style in Hanping notification settings) Improved example sentence formatting (bigger font for Chinese characters, nicer styling) Some UI tweaks and bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Added toolbar to homescreen widgets allowing you to star/copy/play words. Also randomization is now better persisted. Clipboard monitoring shows tags (Android N only) Long-press + icon to assign previously used tag Cleaner definition/link coloring Tweaked radicals screen Fixed problem where tagging a non-starred word was not updating AnkiDroid Several other bug fixes Please see our post describing the Mandarin dictionary update for screenshot. Available from the Google Play Store.

Several bug fixes (mostly concerning improved tagging feature). Available from the Google Play Store.

Much improved starring/tagging system No longer need to star a word to tag it Custom tags (corresponding to the word) shown on main Details screen beneath headword Easier way to assign/create custom tags Can merge two custom tags by renaming one to the same name as an existing tag History also captures Popup/Widget clicks etc Added some external links: ChinesePod sentences ctext (premodern Chinese text search) etymology Forvo (pronunciation) Glyph Wiki Chinese StackExchange Fixed some Homescreen Widget refresh issues Other bug fixes See screenshots from our Mandarin dictionary app update.

CantoDict examples sentences Minor bug fixes Click on the CD abbreviation (on the right) to view the sentence in the CantoDict website (you may need to click on the sentence first, to bring it up in it’s own screen). 5.1.1 fixes a bug in the clipboard monitoring notification (icons were not being drawn properly) The app is available on Google Play Store.

This is a major update bringing a new beautiful font where 9501 characters can be animated! Single-character headwords are auto-animated when the dictionary entry is shown. Tap on the character to animate again Multi-character headwords can be animated by long-pressing on the appropriate character If you don’t want animations to be auto-triggered, then change the Animation Mode to Plain or Numbered in Hanping’s Chinese Settings 839 animations already unlocked. A further 8662 characters can be unlocked via an in-app purchase Hanping now has a new default font and the new animations match these perfectly (i.

Fixed pinyin umlaut tone-marking bug (Hanping Chinese only) Updated CC-CEDICT dictionary data (Hanping Chinese only) Added more external links (Hanping Chinese only) Android N split-screen compatibility Some minor bug fixes Note: 4.6.4 fixes a rare crash when starring words (related to AnkiDroid export). Available from the Google Play Store.

AnkiDroid support - Now you can study your starred words using Anki’s hugely popular Spaced Repetition System (SRS) flashcard software. To set everything up, head over to Hanping Pro’s Settings screen and click on the AnkiDroid item. Main features: Bulk export all of your existing starred words Bulk export all of your starred words with a certain tag (Starred tab / long-press on tag) Auto-export flashcard whenever you star a word Four card types: Hanzi Question - answer is the pronunciation and meaning Phonetic Question - answer is the hanzi and meaning Meaning Question - answer is the hanzi and pronunciation Tones Question (you are given the phonetic without tones) - answer fills in the tones Simp, Trad, Simp [Trad], Trad [Simp] Hanzi coloring-by-tones Tone-numbered Jyutping or tone-numbered Yale When you modify Hanping settings (e.

(Paid apps only) Homescreen Widget improvements and bug fixes - can now reconfigure widget by clicking on the app icon (top-right corner of widget) and then you will see this: Note: If you have configured the widget to not show the app icon, then you won’t be able to reconfigure it (i.e. you would have to create a new one instead). Proper support for English letters in Chinese headwords (particularly an issue in Cantodict which has words like “唔啱key” (m4 ngaam1 ki1) and “kilo” (ki1 lou2) Updated CC-CEDICT, Cantodict and Unihan 8.

Better Google Translate support Requires Google Translate app to be installed New translate icon appears next to not-in-dictionary search results Click on translate icon to show Google Translate popup which gives translation Then click ‘Replace’ to show the translation in Hanping If you star the sentence, the translation will appear in your starred list You can also translate existing starred words/sentences (those which are not-in-dictionary) Tweaked search results formatting Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Better handwriting recognition More Android Marshmallow support (regarding backups) Minor bug fixes Note: 4.3.2 fixes a lookup bug which only really affects Hanping Cantonese Dictionary. Available from the Google Play Store.

Better system Text-to-Speech support. If enabled in Settings, audio playback alternates between human TTS and system TTS Long-press on Links icon to jump to first link Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Improved clipboard notifications Improved External Links section Redesigned navigation drawer Removed lots of notifications Fixed some dict formatting issues Added support for Android Marshmallow Minor bug fixes Please note: the version number has been fast-forwarded from 2.1 to 4.2 to keep it in line with our Mandarin dictionary apps which have many similar features. The app is available on Google Play Store.

New app announcement: Hanping Chinese Popup. Available on Google Play Store. This is a minor update: Minor bug fixes (including Shared list being accidentally treated as a ZIP file, but actually is a text file) The app is available on Google Play Store.

Updated launcher icon to Material Design Updated CantoDict dictionary data Fixed problem regarding importing custom font (sometimes they were greyed out in system file chooser) Other bug fixes The app is available on Google Play Store.

This is a bugfix update on version 2.0.2 which was released a couple of weeks ago. Updated dictionary data (again) - fixed a problem where some entries were corrupt because of problem with alternative pronunciations Homescreen widgets now support manual control of when to advance to the next card Fixed some audio syllables - e.g. in faan6, the “f” was not as clear as it should be Minor bug fixes The app is available on Google Play Store.

This is a bugfix update on version 2.0.1 which was released last week. Updated dictionary data Fixed an audio bug occurring on some Android 4.1/4.2 devices Fixed a nav drawer bug - tapping on drawer would sometime activate controls under the drawer When showing handwriting screen, disable dragging open of nav drawer Several other bug fixes

This is a bugfix update on version 2.0 which was released last week. Fixed audio bug that was occurring on some Android 4.2 devices Minor bug fixes

The first update to the best offline Cantonese dictionary app on the planet, has arrived! Enhanced handwriting recognition - much more accurate and recognizes many more characters Improved audio - more compact and faster playback Material design Added Navigation Drawer - Settings, Add-ons, Backup/Restore etc screens are now available via top-left “hamburger” menu Better tabs - swipe left and right on the main Search screen to switch between History, Starred lists and predefined Lists Heads-up notifications (Android 5 only) Fixed handwriting bug on Android 5 Fixed history bug - using some IMEs would lead to lots of “random” words appearing in the history Fixed copy/paste bug on search box - long-press on text inside search box now correctly brings up top contextual bar containing copy, paste etc buttons

We are delighted to announce our brand new Android app: Hanping Cantonese Dictionary Supports both Traditional and Simplified characters as well as Jyutping and Yale pronunciation. Handwriting recognition, syllable-by-syllable native speaker audio, homescreen widgets, clipboard monitoring and lots more. We’ve licensed best-in-class CantoDict dictionary data which is a genuine Cantonese-English dictionary (as opposed to a Mandarin dictionary with Cantonese pronunciation). A portion of the sale price goes towards ongoing maintenance of CantoDict.

For any of you running MIUI 11 (which is the system running on most Xiaomi devices released in the past couple of years), you might have experienced an issue with the AnkiDroid Flashcards integration. The first time you select AnkiDroid Flashcards from Hanping’s side navigation drawer, you will be presented with: Tapping on Grant Permission would normally take you forward to configure the AnkiDroid configuration, but on MIUI 11 it fails and you are taken back to Hanping’s main screen instead.

Hanping Chinese Dictionary, I say Is 10 years old today! More updates on the way Wishing Happy Birthday!

Added support for pinyin/jyutping abbreviation search. Now you can type “wsm” or “wshm” instead of “weishenme” for faster lookups! One good strategy is to just enter the first character of each syllable (e.g. “zgr” for “zhongguoren”) and, if there are too many matches, then finish the final syllable in full (e.g. “zgren” for “zhongguoren”) Added some missing HSK2-5 multisyllable sounds (Hanping Pro only) Fixed bug in vocab importer (mostly concerning traditional Chinese) Fixed Ankidroid audio playback issue (when dictionary app not already running in background) Fixed backup/restore issue Updated CC-CEDICT dictionary data and Tutor Mandarin example sentences Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a minor update including: Updated dictionary, examples and stroke data Accessibility improvements Nice animation in search box Several bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This update is for Android Marshmallow 6.0 and later. Improved handwriting/radicals UI Fixed some China-related bugs Updated dictionary data (CC-CEDICT/CANTODICT) (Hanping Cantonese app only) Fixed some issues with CANTODICT examples Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This update is for Android Marshmallow 6.0 and later. Added Import User Vocab feature to allow bulk import of words into your custom tags. In the Tags tab, click on the 3-dots icon top-right (just below Tags label) and select Import user vocab file. You can then pick any text file and Hanping will automatically extract vocab from it. Note - the text file should contain a vocab list (e.g. one vocab item per line), not freeform text.

More export options (long-tap on tag in Tags tab). Now you can also export your tagged (as well as built-in tags like HSK) words to a text file with all custom taggings & starrings included Performance improvements (e.g. regarding tag lists) (Mandarin apps only) Added another 100 example sentences (provided by TutorMandarin) Clip Monitor Quick Settings Tile tweaks Many bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Added thousands of example sentences (provided by TutorMandarin) In total, over 5,000 example sentences, and over 5,000 words have at least one example sentence Bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Updated ABC dictionaries and formatting - please go to Add Ons screen to perform update (Hanping Pro only) Added part-of-speech to ABC brief definitions (e.g. in search results and Anki export) (Hanping Pro only) Added Soundboard shortcut (Android 7.1+) - long-tap on launcher icon. You can also long-tap on shortcut to pin to homescreen Fixed downloading add-ons from China Fixed widget color bug Better support for Chinese headwords containing non-Hanzi Fixed Invite Friends (navigation drawer) - use this to send others a Play Store link to install Hanping Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

We’ve made it easier to hear all the Chinese sounds by adding a Soundboard (accessible from the left Navigation drawer) to the Hanping dictionary apps. This is similar to our Hanping SoundBox app (which is going to be slowly phased out). Single-Syllable Sounds All our dictionary apps now include the ability to hear (in one place) the audio for every single-syllable sound. Tones that never occur or are extremely rare are greyed out.

Add notes to any word - this allows you to add your own translations/meanings/comments to any word regardless of whether it is already in a dictionary or not More consistent sorting of tagged items (when you click on a tag in the Tags tab) Removed “tagged items” button from Tags tab (tap on CUSTOM label instead) Better syncing of tagging changes with AnkiDroid (Note: Hanping Lite does not support AnkiDroid export) - deselecting a tag will now deselect it from AnkiDroid (if auto-export is enabled) Improved first-time install experience - nice circular progress bar and better handling of restoring from backups Updated dictionary data (CC-CEDICT, CANTODICT) Several bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Tag from within clipboard notifications (Android N) Improved clipboard notification styling (choose between old Hanping style and new System style in Hanping notification settings) Improved example sentence formatting (bigger font for Chinese characters, nicer styling) Some UI tweaks and bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Added toolbar to homescreen widgets allowing you to star/copy/play words. Also randomization is now better persisted. Clipboard monitoring shows tags (Android N only) Long-press + icon to assign previously used tag Cleaner definition/link coloring Tweaked radicals screen Fixed audio crash Fixed problem where tagging a non-starred word was not updating AnkiDroid (Pro only) Several other bug fixes 6.1.1 increases Hanzi size in example sentences and adds 162 missing erhua audio recordings

Better support for HSK alternative pronunciations Some bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Several bug fixes (mostly concerning improved tagging feature). Available from the Google Play Store.

Much improved starring/tagging system No longer need to star a word to tag it Custom tags (corresponding to the word) shown on main Details screen beneath headword HSK level also shown beneath headword Easier way to assign/create custom tags Can merge two custom tags by renaming one to the same name as an existing tag Added “hsk characters” tags so that you can study (perhaps using homescreen widget) characters for any given HSK level History also captures Popup/Widget clicks etc Added some external links: ChinesePod sentences ctext (premodern Chinese text search) etymology Forvo (pronunciation) Glyph Wiki Chinese StackExchange Fixed some Homescreen Widget refresh issues Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

New audio add-on (paid) for HSK6 multi-syllable words (2300+ recordings): Meiqi HSK6. This extends the existing set of Meiqi (female native Mandarin speaker) comprising of the free base add-on (single-syllable audio plus HSK1 multi-syllable audio), paid HSK2-5 add-on and now the paid HSK6 add-on. Updated CC-CEDICT dictionary data Fixed bug in Chinese links within ABC-EC definitions - there used to be a problem when parsing complex pinyin (e.g. “ban4 zuo4/chang4”) Available from the Google Play Store.

We’ve teamed up with The Chairman’s Bao (TCB) (an online Chinese newspaper aimed at people learning Mandarin Chinese) to bring more example sentences to Hanping Pro! Although The Chairman’s Bao is aimed at people learning Simplified Mandarin, the example sentences in Hanping include both Simplified & Traditional characters. Naturally, both Pinyin and Zhuyin are also supported. Each sentence is shown with the English translation (Pro version only). Click on the sentence to examine it in more detail:

This is a major update bringing a new beautiful font where 9501 characters can be animated! Single-character headwords are auto-animated when the dictionary entry is shown. Tap on the character to animate again Multi-character headwords can be animated by long-pressing on the appropriate character If you don’t want animations to be auto-triggered, then change the Animation Mode to Plain or Numbered in Hanping’s Chinese Settings 839 animations already unlocked. A further 8662 characters can be unlocked via an in-app purchase Hanping now has a new default font and the new animations match these perfectly (i.

Fixed pinyin umlaut tone-marking bug (Hanping Chinese only) Updated CC-CEDICT dictionary data (Hanping Chinese only) Added more external links (Hanping Chinese only) Android N split-screen compatibility Some minor bug fixes Note: 4.6.4 fixes a rare crash when starring words (related to AnkiDroid export). Available from the Google Play Store.

(Pro only) AnkiDroid support - Now you can study your starred words using Anki’s hugely popular Spaced Repetition System (SRS) flashcard software. To set everything up, head over to Hanping Pro’s Settings screen and click on the AnkiDroid item. Main features: Bulk export all of your existing starred words Bulk export all of your starred words with a certain tag (Starred tab / long-press on tag) Auto-export flashcard whenever you star a word Four card types: Hanzi Question - answer is the pronunciation and meaning Phonetic Question - answer is the hanzi and meaning Meaning Question - answer is the hanzi and pronunciation Tones Question (you are given the phonetic without tones) - answer fills in the tones Simp, Trad, Simp [Trad], Trad [Simp] Hanzi coloring-by-tones Tone-marked Pinyin, tone-numbered Pinyin or tone-marked Zhuyin When you modify Hanping settings (e.

(Paid apps only) Homescreen Widget improvements and bug fixes - can now reconfigure widget by clicking on the app icon (top-right corner of widget) and then you will see this: Note: If you have configured the widget to not show the app icon, then you won’t be able to reconfigure it (i.e. you would have to create a new one instead). Proper support for English letters in Chinese headwords (particularly an issue in Cantodict which has words like “唔啱key” (m4 ngaam1 ki1) and “kilo” (ki1 lou2) Updated CC-CEDICT, Cantodict and Unihan 8.

Better Google Translate support Requires Google Translate app to be installed New translate icon appears next to not-in-dictionary search results Click on translate icon to show Google Translate popup which gives translation Then click ‘Replace’ to show the translation in Hanping If you star the sentence, the translation will appear in your starred list You can also translate existing starred words/sentences (those which are not-in-dictionary) Tweaked search results formatting Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Better handwriting recognition More Android Marshmallow support (regarding backups) Minor bug fixes Note: 4.3.2 fixes a lookup bug which only really affects Hanping Cantonese Dictionary. Available from the Google Play Store.

Better system Text-to-Speech support. If enabled in Settings, audio playback alternates between human TTS and system TTS Long-press on Links icon to jump to first link Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is an important bug fix update. Performance bug fix - accidentally introduced a bug in 4.2.0 which made Chinese character searches very slow (noticeable on older devices) Updated CC-CEDICT dictionary data Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a minor bug fix update. Long-press on audio icon to play audio using system TTS. This will only work if your device supports Mandarin TTS. Luckily most devices do because Google Text-to-Speeech app recently added support for this. Please make sure you have downloaded the Chinese (China) voice data. Actually, this was added in 4.2, but we forgot to mention it! Fixed UI glitch when moving from Search screen to Details screen Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Improved clipboard notifications Improved External Links section Redesigned navigation drawer Removed lots of notifications Fixed some dict formatting issues Added support for Android Marshmallow Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

New app announcement: Hanping Chinese Popup. Available on Google Play Store. Minor bug fixes (including Shared list being accidentally treated as a ZIP file, but actually is a text file) Available from the Google Play Store.

Better Zhuyin support - If you have selected Zhuyin phonetic, now English/Pinyin search terms more readily assumed to be English than Pinyin. For example, “miner” will match the English word instead of Pinyin 抿耳 mǐn ěr Fixed bug when performing sentence breakdown using ABC CE dictionary - priority was being ignored Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Updated launcher icon to Material Design Updated CC-CEDICT dictionary data Fixed problem regarding importing custom font (sometimes they were greyed out in system file chooser) Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a minor bug fix update. Fixed bug where ü (u umlaut) in Pinyin was not being recognised properly Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a bug fix update on 4.0.8. Fixed bug where ü (u umlaut) in pinyin was not being recognised properly (ABC English-Chinese owners only) Fixed English/Chinese results choice from resetting - this is button in the top-right of search results used to switch between showing English headwords and Chinese headwords. Now Hanping properly remembers what you last selected and uses that as the default for future searches (until you switch again) Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a bug fix update on 4.0.7. Updated CC-CEDICT data Updated HSK lists - each list now exactly matches the official lists: HSK 1 (150 words), HSK 2 (150 words), HSK 3 (300 words), HSK 4 (600 words), HSK 5 (1300 words), HSK 6 (2500 words). Some anomalies: HSK 2 has 对 twice because it appears twice in the official list (once as an adjective, once as a preposition) but these are treated as a single word in Hanping because the simplified-traditional-phonetic combination is the same (对[對] dui4).

This is a minor bug fix update on 4.0.2, 4.0.1 & 4.0 (which brought handwriting recognition and syllable-by-syllable audio). Bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a bug fix update on 4.0.6. Widget bug fix on LG G3 - cards were transparent in some cases ABC dictionary download bug fix - on rare occasions, the downloaded file was being ignored and so installation could not proceed Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a minor bug fix update on 4.0.1 & 4.0 (which brought handwriting recognition and syllable-by-syllable audio). Minor UI tweaks Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a bug fix update on 4.0.5. Improved sentence decomposition - much better handling when search text is a mix of Simplified and Traditional characters. Also fixed a related bug Homescreen widgets now support manual advance - you can choose (on a per widget basis) whether the card automatically cycles to next card Some UI tweaks - search language button (“pinyin”/“english”) now a little prettier :). Notifications and homescreen widgets now use Material Design background colors and text colors Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a bug fix update on 4.0 (which brought handwriting recognition and syllable-by-syllable audio). If you have Hanping Cantonese Dictionary installed: In Hanping Chinese Dictionary, click on the Hanping Cantonese Dictionary app icon (at the bottom of the navigation drawer), to launch that app showing the Cantonese equivalent of whichever word you were currently looking at Some audio fixes for issues on lesser-known devices Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a bug fix update on 4.0.3. If you have Hanping Cantonese Dictionary installed: In Hanping Chinese Dictionary, click on the Hanping Cantonese Dictionary app icon (at the bottom of the navigation drawer), to launch that app showing the Cantonese equivalent of whichever word you were currently looking at Some audio fixes for issues on lesser-known devices Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Happy Chinese New Year! To celebrate, this major update brings Chinese handwriting recognition and syllable-by-syllable audio (of a real native Chinese speaker) as well as a UI overhaul (Material Design). Chinese Handwriting Recognition (Android 4.1 JellyBean and higher) Syllable-by-syllable Audio (over 2000 recordings from a real native Mandarin speaker) (Android 4.1 JellyBean and higher) Material design Added Navigation Drawer - Settings, Add-ons, Backup/Restore etc screens are now available via top-left “hamburger” menu (on the Details screen, simply swipe from the left) Better tabs - swipe left and right on the main Search screen to switch between History, Starred lists and predefined Lists User-friendly naming for predefined lists (e.

This is a bug fix update on 4.0.2. Disable navigation drawer drag-from-left while handwriting view visible - to prevent accidental drawer-opening Re-enabled English TTS (only applicable if ABC English-Chinese Dictionary add-on installed) Much faster lookups for Hanping Chinese Camera Added Audio Playback Test dialog for older devices (because a couple of older devices are having problems with the new audio) Bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a bug fix update on 4.0.1. Better Navigation Drawer - includes icons to launch other Hanping apps (if installed) Lollipop only - Fixed Heads-up notification issues including new option to enabled/disable Heads-Up notifications - please note Android 5 (Lollipop) no longer supports the old status bar Ticker Text notifications Fixed issue with Backup/Restore starred words Some minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This update brings a UI refresh of Material Design goodness and supports all devices running Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and higher: Improved audio - more compact and faster playback Material design Added Navigation Drawer - Settings, Add-ons, Backup/Restore etc screens are now available via top-left “hamburger” menu (on the Details screen, simply swipe from the left) Better tabs - swipe left and right on the main Search screen to switch between History, Starred lists and predefined Lists User-friendly naming for predefined lists (e.

Minor bug fix update (Android 5.0+ devices only) Fixes handwriting bug that occurred on some Android 5.0 (Lollipop) devices. Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a bug fix update on 3.8.4. 3.8.6 & 3.8.7 are very minor bug fix updates. Added optional setting for controlling whether usage statistics and/or errors can be automatically reported Some other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a minor bug fix update (3.8.7 is another one): Fixed audio bug that prevented audio playback from working on some devices Added optional setting for controlling whether usage statistics and/or errors can be automatically reported Some other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Please note: This update is going out as a staged rollout, so if you have not yet received it, then you should receive it some time in the next couple of days. This update covers: Better sorting of search results Several secondary screens updated with new UI and better UX. UI now honours night mode setting About screen - Social networks section (Facebook, Twitter, Google+), Legal notices section, removed “Touch to refresh purchase info” (now in Add-ons screen) Settings screen - separated Chinese display settings into second screen.

Please note: This update is going out as a staged rollout, so if you have not yet received it, then you should receive it some time in the next couple of days. This is a minor update. Better search result ordering Added better user information when trying to purchase ABC dictionary add-ons in China. Read how to do it here. Minor audio bug fix Some other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

For a small minority of users, there was a bug in the earlier 3.8 releases that prevented starred words and search history (from pre3.8 versions) being retained in 3.8+ versions. This has been fixed in this release. However, if you have previously updated to 3.8.0/3.8.1/3.8.2 then you may need to do some small steps to get you starred words back. First, try simply running the app (version 3.8.3). If all your starred words and search history are restored then you don’t need to read on.

3.8.1 & 3.8.2 are minor bugfix updates on 3.8.0. This update covers: Several secondary screens updated with new UI and better UX. UI now honours night mode setting About screen - Social networks section (Facebook, Twitter, Google+), Legal notices section, removed “Touch to refresh purchase info” (now in Add-ons screen) Settings screen - separated Chinese display settings into second screen. This allows first Settings screen to show a convenient summary of your Chinese settings in one sample text Add-ons screen - this is a new screen showing which dictionaries and apps you currently have installed.

This is a very minor bug fix update on 3.7.0. Added Chinese localization for Clipboard Monitoring Some bug fixes and tidying up Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a bug fix update for 3.7.1. Added Chinese localization for Clipboard Monitoring Improved DashClock icon Some bug fixes and tidying up Available from the Google Play Store.

On 22.02.2014, we officially retired our Hanping Chinese Classic app for Android. Originally released as Hanping Chinese Dictionary back on 13 October 2009, this was our first Android app, and first Chinese app too. On 28 January 2012, it was the first Chinese language-learning Android app to reach 500,000 downloads on Google Play, and ended up with 924,038 downloads. The vast majority of those downloads were achieved before we released Hanping Chinese Dictionary Lite (on 7 September 2012) which superseded the Classic app.

Clipboard Monitoring (Android 4.0+) - when you copy Chinese characters into the Clipboard you can optionally get a system notification showing the definition. This monitoring can be triggered at system startup (the app now requests “run at startup” permission) or triggered manually (in the action bar overflow menu). Unfortunately, many Android 4.3 devices have a well-known bug preventing realtime Clipboard monitoring from working properly. In this case, you will need to use the Clipboard icon in the notification, to trigger Hanping to read the Clipboard.

This is a bug fix update for 3.7.0. Also adds support for Sharing Chinese text to Hanping’s new Notification feature. For example, if you select some Chinese text, instead of Copying to Clipboard, you can Share to Hanping Notification. This has the bonus of not unnecessarily touching your Clipboard (which might trigger other Clipboard-listening apps). Available from the Google Play Store. [gallery columns=“2” link=“file” ids=“931,930”]

Clipboard Monitoring (Android 4.0+) - when you copy Chinese characters into the Clipboard you can optionally get a system notification showing the definition. This monitoring can be triggered at system startup (the app now requests “run at startup” permission) or triggered manually (in the action bar overflow menu). Unfortunately, many Android 4.3 devices have a well-known bug preventing realtime Clipboard monitoring from working properly. In this case, you will need to use the Clipboard icon in the notification, to trigger Hanping to read the Clipboard.

The is the old free version of Hanping Chinese Dictionary. It is only useful to people running Android 2.2 or earlier. If your Android device is running Android 2.3 Gingerbread (or higher) you will most probably want to install the new Hanping Chinese Dictionary Lite app (and uninstall this Classic app if necessary). You can also keep both apps installed at the same time, if you wish. But it is probably a good idea to close (Force Stop) one app before opening the other.

3.6.5 fixes many small bugs in 3.6.4. Fixed: custom font was not being set properly when changed in Settings Fixed: better handling of corrupt dictionary and audio zip files Fixed: NPE when homescreen widget data was being refreshed and drawn at the same time Hanzi font Import… now only allows you to select TTF and OTF files Better localization for common strings like OK and Cancel Some other bug fixes 3.

The is the old free version of Hanping Chinese Dictionary. It is only useful to people running Android 2.2 or earlier. If your Android device is running Android 2.3 Gingerbread (or higher) you will most probably want to install the new Hanping Chinese Dictionary Lite app (and uninstall this Classic app if necessary). You can also keep both apps installed at the same time, if you wish. But it is probably a good idea to close (Force Stop) one app before opening the other.

This fixes many small bugs in 3.6.4. Fixed: custom font was not being set properly when changed in Settings Fixed: better handling of corrupt dictionary and audio zip files Fixed: NPE when homescreen widget data was being refreshed and drawn at the same time Hanzi font Import… now only allows you to select TTF and OTF files Better localization for common strings like OK and Cancel Some other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a minor update on 3.6.0. Better custom font support (especially on Android 4.4+ KitKat devices). Please read this for more info Added several external links: Google News, iCIBA, Popup Chinese, Tatoeba Fixed Zhuyin bug Some other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.6.4 & Pro 3.6.4).

3.6.3 is a minor update on 3.6.2. 3.6.4 is a minor bug fix update on 3.6.3, only relevant if you are having problems recognising custom fonts. Better custom font support (especially on Android 4.4+ KitKat devices). Please read this for more info Added several external links: Google News, iCIBA, Popup Chinese, Tatoeba Fixed Zhuyin bug Some other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.6.0 & Pro 3.6.4).

This is an important bug fix update on 3.6.1 which sometimes fails to launch correctly. Added backspace button to handwriting & radicals screens Fixed serious potential bug when launching app Some other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.6.0 & Pro 3.6.2).

Vertical Zhuyin/Bopomofo support Added backspace button to radicals screen Performance improvements Some bug fixes [caption id=“attachment_840” align=“aligncenter” width=“168”] Zhuyin now displays to the right of each character (on the Details screen)[/caption] Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.6.0 & Pro 3.6.1).

This is a minor bugfix update on 3.6.0. Fixed problem where widget was sometimes blank on some Samsung devices Some minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.5.3 & Pro 3.6.1).

Lots of work under the covers in this update, but still plenty of goodies too! Brand new Homescreen Widget design (Android Honeycomb 3.1 and later, only). Resizable and text auto-sizes to fit widget. Supports tone coloring, custom fonts, Pinyin, Zhuyin and night mode. Swipe up/down and move through the words in a list. Note: Android version prior to Jelly Bean 4.2 cannot re-layout the text as the widget’s size is changed.

This is a small update on 3.5.1 released last week. Custom tone coloring! Fixed left/right swipe bug (bug introduced in 3.5.1) Fixed bug starring words containing spaces Some minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.5.2 & Pro 3.5.2).

This is a small update on 3.5.1 released last week. Custom tone coloring! Fixed left/right swipe bug (bug introduced in 3.5.0) Fixed bug starring words containing spaces Some minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Pro 3.5.2 & Lite 3.5.1).

Added support for colored pinyin/zhuyin - because in many ways it makes more sense to color-by-tone on the phonetic rather than the hanzi Improved Settings screen - now when you change the chinese display settings you instantly get to see how those changes would appear in the app, by way of sample text Improved Voice Recognition configuration - long-press on microphone icon brings up a dialog where you can specify which language (Chinese, English or System Default) to recognize.

This is a micro update on 3.5.0 released a few days ago. Improved ABC abbreviation info - now includes long explanations for most of the abbreviations (see screenshot) Added more menu options to Details screen - now you can access Settings, About etc from the Details screen Added Skritter (add word) to Links - only relevant if you have a Skritter account Fixed some Flash problems in Links - MOE and Skritter links use Flash so now, instead of taking you to the browser, you are taken to an internal browser view with Flash enabled (assuming you have it installed).

Added Backup/Restore feature - starred words, search history prefs are bundled into a single zip file which you can then place somewhere for safekeeping (and restore from at a later date). Please note: this is NOT a sync feature so is not useful if you use more than one device at the same time. However, this is extremely useful should you wipe your device (or SD card) or buy a new device ABC dictionary abbreviations now clickable - ever wondered what things like B.

Fixed missing camera icon Fixed bug when running in Turkish locale Several minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.4.3 & Pro 3.4.3). If you like this app, please consider upgrading to the Pro version for extra features and to help support our work.

Fixed incomplete downloads bug Fixed bug when running in Turkish locale Improved implementation for sending email to developer Fixed rare exception when paging left/right on Details screen Several minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.4.1 & Pro 3.4.3).

Fixed rare ABC CE database bug on some older devices (only a problem on some custom firmware running SQLite 3.7.2, for example) ABC EC divider (Details screen) now shows headword if different from Details screen headword (e.g. Lookup “anyway”, then click “see: anyhow”) Fixed linking bug in ABC EC word definition - would sometimes get “not in dictionary” when it clearly is Force update of very old CC-CEDICT database installations Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.

New Radicals lookup (access it through overflow menu at the top-right of the screen). If you want to enter a character and you know the radical then this new feature will help you. Radicals are grouped by stroke-count and sorted by frequency within each group. Click on the radical to get a list of all the characters that use that radical. Again, this list is grouped by stroke-count (actually, number of strokes not including the radical itself) and sorted by frequency within each group.

This is a minor bug fix update on yesterday’s 3.4.0 release. Fixed bug in lists containing more than 100 items Fixed bug when reporting incorrect dictionary entry Fixed bug when search term includes single quote Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.2.2 & Pro 3.4.1).

Improved sentence decomposition - better handling of punctuation etc Added concept of simple vs. complex headword forms. Some words are termed “complex” maybe because a syllable has multiple pronunciations or multiple characters. Such words are shown on the Details screen with a + icon in the top right. Hit that to see the complex form of the headword List items only appear once - so a list of 100 words actually appears as 100 items instead of something like 106!

Fixed ‘invisible’ example sentences in ABC Chinese-English dictionary Fixed tags ordering in Tags dialog Fixed some comma-containing links in CC-CEDICT dictionary Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

New Radicals lookup (access it through overflow menu at the top-right of the screen). If you want to enter a character and you know the radical then this new feature will help you. Radicals are grouped by stroke-count and sorted by frequency within each group. Click on the radical to get a list of all the characters that use that radical. Again, this list is grouped by stroke-count (actually, number of strokes not including the radical itself) and sorted by frequency within each group.

Fixed rare handwriting crash & made some handwriting UI tweaks - now, instead of pressing the “left” arrow icon in the bottom-left corner, you press the tick icon in the bottom-right corner, to take you to the search results Generate vocab sheet from starred list - this allows you to share a starred list as text using Android’s powerful Share feature. To access this feature, go to the Starred tab on the main Search screen and long-press on one of the starred lists Some new Hanzi colorings - introducing the brand new “hanping” coloring!

Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

Now that we have recently released a brand new free version of Android’s most popular Chinese dictionary, the old free app has been renamed to Hanping Chinese Classic. If your Android device is running Gingerbread 2.3 (or higher) you will most probably want to install the new Hanping Chinese Dictionary Lite app (and uninstall this Classic app if necessary). You can also keep both apps installed at the same time, if you wish.

This is a minor bugfix update on yesterday’s 3.2.9 release. Fixed English Text-to-Speech bug (only applicable if you have ABC English-Chinese installed) Fixed rare bug in Tag Selector dialog Better text sizing for character suggestions in handwriting recognition Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

Improved experience when downloading/installing audio and ABC dictionaries Fixed some bugs when tagging starred words Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

Better navigation - in older versions of Hanping, it could take many Back-presses to go back through all the dictionary entries to get to the Search screen. Long-pressing the Back button has always been the fast-track way to do this. However, hacking the Back button in this way goes against Android standards, so now we have replaced this with a simple click on the top-left app icon. So, if ever you want to go “up” from the Browse screen to the Search screen, simply press the top-left app icon.

Faster searching - improved Hanzi, Pinyin and English searches Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

Faster searching - improved Hanzi, Pinyin and English searches Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

3.2.6 is a bug fix update because of a bug introduced in 3.2.5 which affected widgets and left/right swiping (on Browse screen) on older (Gingerbread) devices. If you were not experiencing any issues with 3.2.5 then there is no need to update. Much faster pinyin searches for ABC Chinese-English dictionary We’ll be making more performance improvements in the coming days/weeks but this one was too good to hold back! Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

Action Bar UI goodness for both Search and Browse screens Search screen: Moved History/Starred/Lists tab bar to top of screen (which is more standard on Android) Search box now remains visible when switching between those tabs. This reduces the chance that you have to press Back an excessive number of times to exit the app. It also keeps the visible state of the app more consistent Browse screen: Moved “action” items (e.

Tidied up icons with better support for both day and night modes Fixed headword tabs bug (only applicable if you have the ABC English-Chinese Dictionary installed) Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

When searching English AND you have ABC English-Chinese Dictionary (i.e. a dictionary with English headwords) installed, you will now see a “中文” and “english” tab allowing you to choose whether to see Chinese headword results or English headword results. This replaces the old top-left icon functionality which was not inuitively positioned Better handling of when to show which icons (such as handwriting icon) in search bar More UI tweaks Minor bug fixes We will tidy up the icons in an upcoming update.

Note: 3.2.1 & 3.2.2 are very minor bugfix updates on 3.2.0. If you have not experienced any problems with 3.2.0 then there is no need to update. 3.2.2 fix: Rare crash on search screen (bug introduced in 3.2.0) 3.2.1 fixes: Better error message when handwriting engine cannot be initialised Rare bug that sometimes made it impossible to buy either ABC dictionary 3.2.0 changes: Action Bar UI goodness for both Search and Browse screens Search screen: Moved History/Starred/Lists tab bar to top of screen (which is more standard on Android) If you have ABC English-Chinese Dictionary installed, you will also get a second level of tabs (below Starred tab) allowing you to switch between languages Search box now remains visible when switching between those tabs.

Minor bug fixes for our new free dictionary app. Please don’t forget to leave a rating and/or comment, to help others find Hanping on the Play Store. Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

Now that we have recently released a brand new free version of Android’s most popular Chinese dictionary, the old free app has been renamed to Hanping Chinese Classic. If your Android device is running Gingerbread 2.3 (or higher) you will most probably want to install the new Hanping Chinese Dictionary Lite app (and uninstall this Classic app if necessary). Other changes in this update: Changed app icon to silver to help distinguish it from the other Hanping apps (new Lite is blue, Pro is green) Fixed bug (on older Android devices) where sometimes a list search would never not be properly executed (user would just see never-ending progress spinner)

We’ve just released a new free edition of Hanping Chinese Dictionary targeted specifically for Gingerbread (and higher) devices. The old free edition has been renamed to “Hanping Chinese Dict Classic”. How does the new free app differ from the old free app? Dictionary data is included in the application. This means there is no need for an internet connection to download/install the dictionary data on first run. Therefore, the app is now completely self-contained which is important in case you swap (or reformat) your SD card or your dictionary database somehow gets corrupted unexpectedly The new app is much larger (10MB vs 1MB) but this should not be a problem for most people because Google Play Store now supports smart updates (for Gingerbread and higher) and so bandwidth usage should be similar to as before No ads!

UI tweaks (Gingerbread and higher devices) Better installation experience (Gingerbread and higher devices) Minor bug fixes 3.1.1/3.1.2/3.1.3/3.1.4 are bug fixes on 3.1.0. Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

Fixed clipboard bug where old clipboard text was being searched on app launch Tweaked the tone colors Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

Fixed slow-loading issue (for Pro, already fixed in previous update) Added brand new app: Hanping Chinese OCR to Menu > Buy screen Minor bug fixes (including not reading clipboard) Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

3.0.10 changes: Fixed slow-loading issue Voice recognition settings now in Settings screen (used to be on About screen). If you are lucky enough to be running Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) then you can download data files for offline voice recognition. See screenshots below: 3.0.9 changes: Tag names can now include Chinese characters - before, you could only use letters (a-z) and digits (0-9) but now you can use almost any characters (including Chinese characters and punctuation).

Search history & Settings now auto-imported from Lite version (no earlier than 3.0.5) when upgrade to Pro Some bug fixes This is a bug fix update on the 3.0.5 update a few days ago. Ongoing promotion: 25% off ABC dictionaries (in-app purchases, pro version only) Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

Fixes a pre-Froyo bug introduced in the 3.0.5 update (which stopped Starred words working properly) Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Settings and search history now automatically backed up to device storage (SD card) Jelly Bean bug fixes Other bug fixes Ongoing promotion: 25% off ABC dictionaries (in-app purchases, pro version only) Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro). Information about the settings and search history backup file Your settings and search history are automatically backed up to your device storage (usually SD card) whenever you press the back or home key to exit out of Hanping Pro.

Added setting to Prefer Chinese Results (only applicable with ABC English-Chinese installed). You can still switch search result language by clicking on the top-left icon. This will be made more intuitive in an up-coming update Faster lists Searches also update in Browse screen Some bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Note: 3.0.1 fixes some bugs in 3.0 (which is described in this post). This major update brings in several features that Hanping Pro users have been enjoying for over a year: Starred words - star any word (or even a phrase not in the dictionary) for easy recall later on Clipboard support - copy any Chinese headword to Clipboard to use outside of the app (e.g. in email/sms app) External links (only when you are online) - quickly & conveniently look up a word in one of the many supported 3rd party websites such as YellowBridge (for detailed word information), nciku (for sample sentences), Skritter (for stroke animations & writing practice) and many more Lookup Chinese words within dictionary definitions Lookup characters within headwords Other improvements include:

3.0.3 is a minor bug fix update on 3.0/3.0.1/3.0.2 fixing an in-app billing crash, minor handwriting issues and a crash on startup on some old Motorola devices. Other recent changes are: Improved sentence decomposition - for example, try pasting a Chinese SMS into the search box Merged dictionary search (only relevant if you have ABC Chinese-English dictionary installed) - gives you the combined results for CC-CEDICT and ABC Chinese-English Both ABC dictionaries (which are currently on SPECIAL OFFER) now include both Simplified & Traditional characters as well as Pinyin & Zhuyin!

Today, Hanping Chinese Dictionary Pro hit the magic 10,000 downloads mark on the Android Market! We believe this is the first paid offline dictionary to achieve this :) For posterity, here is the User Reviews breakdown: A big thanks to all the support we have received over the last couple of years to make this happen. UPDATE 28.01.2012: Free version hits HALF A MILLION downloads!

Refreshed app icon Added English starred words functionality (only relevant if ABC English-Chinese installed) - from Starred Tab, touch top-left icon to switch between Chinese and English starred lists Fixed FC (ICS-only) when swiping on Browse screen Minor bug fixes Available from the Android Market.

This contains a few minor bug fixes to the recently-released 2.8.0 which added support for the ABC English-Chinese Dictionary (as in-app purchase). Fixed CC-CEDICT deep-search bug Fixed bug when switching to new SD card - dictionaries were being installed in an order that caused some problems Fixed Share feature for ABC English-Chinese Dictionary Available from the Android Market.

Added ABC English-Chinese in-app purchase (~10USD). Press Menu button > Buy for more details Improved Search screen header: now much cleaner Minor bug fixes A few weeks ago we launched the ABC Chinese-English Dictionary as an in-app purchase. Now, we are launching the other way with the superb ABC English-Chinese Dictionary. This is something we’ve wanted to add for ages because doing English lookups on a Chinese-English dictionary (CC-CEDICT) is never going to match on the less common English words.

Pro version now offers superb ABC Chinese-English Dictionary as in-app purchase Added dialog explaining how to get Pro version in China Minor bug fixes Available from the Android Market.

Fixed Pinyin ü bug (recently-introduced bug that was causing problems with colouring the Hanzi) Improved About screen (merged Installed Dictionaries and Purchased Dictionaries into one Dictionaries section) Minor bug fixes Available from the Android Market.

Improved formatting of ABC entries (see screenshot) Clicking on individual Hanzi in headword is now more intelligent Fixed potential startup delay caused by looking for custom fonts Minor bug fixes Available from the Android Market. [gallery link=“file” columns=“2”]

Browse screen (showing a single dictionary entry) now also shows the definition for the same word in any other dictionaries installed. This is only applicable if you have the ABC Chinese-English dictionary installed (because otherwise you only have one dictionary) Before, when clicking on Chinese character in a headword, Hanping would search for that character in the dictionary and show the corresponding entry. This would not always result in the desired result (because sometimes there are multiple entries for the same character) and so now, Hanping also takes the corresponding Pinyin into consideration Minor bug fixes Users running Cyanogen Mod: If you have purchased the ABC Chinese-English dictionary you may have noticed the formatting of the dictionary entry (on the Browse screen) does not include any indentation (i.

The Pro version now includes an in-app product for the superb ABC Chinese-English Dictionary. Here are the highlights: Over 200,000 Chinese headwords including Simplified & Traditional characters as well as Pinyin pronunciation A total of over 10,000 example sentences including Simplified & Traditional forms and Pinyin pronunciation (but no Traditional) Grammatical information such as Part of Speech and Measure Words When you search using Chinese characters or Pinyin, Hanping Pro performs a lookup on the ABC dictionary first.

Minor bug fixes Available from the Android Market.

Significant changes: Custom font support Improved dictionary entry formatting (Pro version only) Disabled word prediction when entering search term (now much better for entering Pinyin) Minor bug fixes You now have the possibility to use your own Chinese font instead of the one included by default on your Android device (and without the need to root your phone). Place the TTF font (for example C:\Windows\Fonts\simkai.ttf) on your SD card here:

Unfortunately paid Android apps are currently unavailable in China & Taiwan amongst others (for a full list of paid-app countries see here although it’s not always up-to-date). Android Market determines your “country” by checking which country your sim card comes from. If it comes from a paid-app supported country then you will be able to view, buy and download paid apps. Otherwise, they will be hidden away from you. So, the simplest way to buy paid apps is to temporarily swap out your Chinese/Taiwanese sim card for another sim card from a paid-app country.

Added Chinese localization

As most of you know, paid Android apps are not available in China or Taiwan, but there are a couple of tricks to work around this (such as the sim card swap). The key point to know is that (at least for smartphones), your location is determined by the country of your sim card. So, if you are using a US, UK, German etc sim card then you will see paid apps no matter where you are.

Fixed bug where on rare occasions audio installation would freeze mid-way Other minor bug fixes

Supports Move to SD card Minor bug fixes

Handwriting improvements including: Redesigned layout (replaced OK button with Back icon, shifted suggestions to top of screens like with normal IMEs) Fixed conflicts with some IMEs (e.g. SwiftKey) Can now “undo” strokes Strokes now survive screen rotation Faster startup time (fixes rare ANR) Long-press on suggested character to look up character in dictionary

Added built-in handwriting recognition* Support for Move to SD** Minor bug fixes * Handwriting stroke data may be sent to a 3rd party server to improve recognition research. No personally-identifiable data will be sent ** Please note, Android disables homescreen widgets for apps that have been moved to the SD card. If you wish to use Hanping widgets, please do not move the app to SD card. We will look for a better long-term solution to this.

Audio fix (please email us if you have any problems) Long-press clipboard icon to append Chinese characters to clipboard

Better phrase support - now you can star Chinese phrases (or any Chinese word even if it is not in the dictionary). Also provides Pinyin* for those phrases and the ability to play the corresponding audio. This is great for building phrase lists - build your own phrase book! Tweaked the way results are formatted in the search page. Now, instead of the old two-column format (Hanzi on the left, Pinyin on the right), the Hanzi runs right across the screen and the Pinyin follows likewise.

Minor bug fixes regarding handling of corrupt database file Audio enhancements* * Hanping Pro now includes brand new audio files (provided by FlashDragon Publishing, LLC). New users will automatically receive these files when they download the audio files when installing Hanping Pro. Existing users will need to rename the following folder on their sd card: /Android/data/com.embermitre.lib.audio.pinyin to: /Android/data/com.embermitre.lib.audio.pinyin.old The next time you run the app, you will be prompted to download the new audio files.

Fixed bug regarding list items not in dictionary. This bug appeared in 2.5.0-2.5.3. For example, bringing up the hsk6 list would show the same entry (報酬, 报仇,”bao4 chou5″) multiple times due to a caching bug. It was this entry because this was the first entry in hsk6 that does not appear in the dictionary (CC-CEDICT 2.1.1). All later list items not in the dictionary were showing as the “bao4 chou5″ also.

Some minor widget enhancements - now you can force that the phonetics are never displayed in the widget. Also, if you reinstall the app or reboot your device, the old word is still shown Improved swipe left/right, up/down on Word Details screen - there was a bug introduced in 2.5.3 where (at least on Xperia X10) swiping left/right or up/down no longer worked. That has been fixed and the swiping generally improved - now you can swipe from anywhere on the screen (before you could not swipe starting from a clickable item like the Hanzi or Search/Links icons).

Made some changes to the Word Details screen: Moved “External Websites” icon down to below entry description (now called “Links”) Added “Search” icon (also below description) allowing easy searches related to the currently displayed word. For example, if you are looking at the word 朋友, now you can easily search for all words starting or ending in “朋友” and also all words starting in “朋” or ending in “友”. Note - this uses the wildcard characters: * = any string of characters (maybe none), # = exactly one character Added Skritter to Links so you can see (and practice) drawing a character.

This is a major update: Much better search results - search results are now shown dynamically which means as you scroll down, Hanping searches deeper into the dictionary to find more matches. For example, type “pengyou” (which means friend) and you will see not only the entry for “朋友” (péngyou, friend) but also[gallery link=“file” columns=“8”] for “男朋友” (nánpéngyou, boyfriend) and “女朋友” (nǚpéngyou, girlfriend) History - any successful search you type is now automatically added to your History of searches.

Fixed bug which resulted in very slow queries when including tone numbers in pinyin search queries (e.g. “ni3 hao3”) Added online check to inform user when a new stable release is available (useful because many users disable automatic Market update checks) Improved way to allow user to update dictionary data to latest version

EDIT: 31 March 2011 - First stable release of 2.5.0, today. This is a major update. Most of the changes are internal allowing for exciting enhancements in future updates. Other changes include: Much better search results - search results are now shown dynamically which means as you scroll down, Hanping searches deeper into the dictionary to find more matches. For example, type “pengyou” (which means friend) and you will see not only the entry for “朋友” (péngyou, friend) but also for “男朋友” (nánpéngyou, boyfriend) and “女朋友” (nǚpéngyou, girlfriend) History - any successful search you type is now automatically added to your History of searches.

Some bug fixes

Much better management of Faves/Starred words. Now, a “Starred” word corresponds one-to-one with whether the Star icon (second screen) is glowing. If a word is Starred, then you can assign any number of Tags. These correspond to the old “User List” names. The main benefit of this change is that now you can see all your Starred words together at the same time (called the “All Starred” list). When viewing the list of Starred lists, you can now see how many words are in each list (number in brackets after list name).

Switched from MobClix to AdMob ad network

Major improvements to homescreen widgets including: Each widget takes words (at random) from the configured word list Mini skip icon (top-right) allows you to skip to the next word Configurable update period (1, 4, 8, 24 hours, or no automatic update at all) Some bug fixes Try adding multiple widgets!

Performance bug fix for when decomposing long search strings (was very slow on pre-2.2 devices)

Performance bug fix for when decomposing long search strings (was very slow on pre-2.2 devices)

Minor bug fixes

Fixed lock-up on Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 when trying to loads ads when there is no network connection Some speed improvements by no longer partially matching English when it is very short Now, before user ever specifies Pinyin or English, the searching will try to match Pinyin first. Before, if user started the app and typed “wo”, they would get results matching English (for example results about “Wo river”). Now, because Pinyin matching is tried first, the Pinyin matches will come up instead together with an “English” button allowing the user to see English matches.

Some speed improvements by no longer partially matching English when it is very short Now, before user ever specifies Pinyin or English, the searching will try to match Pinyin first. Before, if user started the app and typed “wo”, they would get results matching English (for example results about “Wo river”). Now, because Pinyin matching is tried first, the Pinyin matches will come up instead together with an “English” button allowing the user to see English matches.

Fixed bug when attempting to download word lists.

Fixed bug when attempting to download word lists.

New features: Traditional & Simplified chars can now be displayed together. On the main screen, hit Menu and then you will see the current setting (probably “Simplified”). Press the menu option to cycle through the four different display types: Simplified, Simp [Trad], Traditional, Trad [Simp]. New “What’s new?” dialog automatically shown every time you update to a new version. To view the change details, use the “More…” button which will take you to the appropriate blog entry.

More Chinese localization (please email me any corrections) Minor bug fix for when downloading word lists

Added Chinese (Traditional & Simplified) localization (please email me any corrections!) Minor bug fixes

On second screen, fling (fast swipe) up or down to step through the search results. Left/right steps through the dictionary

New features: New “Share” option menu in second screen. Allows you to send a dictionary entry (Chinese, Pinyin and English) as an email, Twitter, Google Buzz etc Traditional & Simplified chars can now be displayed together. On the main screen, hit Menu and then you will see the current setting (probably “Simplified”). Press the menu option to cycle through the four different display types: Simplified, Simp [Trad], Traditional, Trad [Simp]. The second screen still only shows either simplified or traditional (never both).

Major update from 1.6.4: Complete overhaul of the UI/UX Lots more built-in word lists (e.g. HSK, most common characters, common idioms) Better handling of situation where search term language is ambiguous – no longer shows the two English/Pinyin buttons on the line below Bug fixes

Changes include: Create/rename/delete user list now performed in second screen (instead of first). Menu -> Active User List and then long press on the user list you want to rename/delete Added presets for different Hanzi Coloring schemes. In second screen, press Menu. From there you can cycle through the various presets Export user list functionality back again. In main screen, Menu -> Lists -> User tab -> long press on user list you want to export Hint text (in Search box) now shows 汉字 or 漢字 depending on whether in traditional or simplified mode When showing word list, now icon in top right brings up Word List Selector dialog Added filters to make sure unsupported characters (such as punctuation) are not entered into search box.

Major update: Complete overhaul of the UI/UX Lots more built-in word lists (e.g. HSK) Multiple user lists. So no longer have to put all favorites in one place In Single Entry screen, hanzi is now clickable. Click on a character and the longest word starting with that character, will be shown. For example, when the Single Entry screen is showing 女朋友, if you click the 朋, then the entry for 朋友 will be shown.

New features: Quick Search Box (QSB) support. Looks up Chinese (Hanzi) or English (but not Pinyin) Hanzi in entry description now clickable so you can look up things like measure words. In the Word Details screen, Hanzi within the English description is now underlined so that you can click on/touch it and you will be taken to the search page Fixed ANR bug when accessing favorites shortly after dictionary update

Added word-of-the-day widget. This is updated every 24 hours and picks a random word from the 1000 most frequent two-character chinese words. Place more than one widget on your homescreen for the best effect!

This brings the Lite version up-to-date with the Pro version (minus the Pro-specific features, of course!). The main changes since the previous Lite version are: Custom search Voice recognition (Android 2.1+) Dictionary data downloaded from server (used to be downloaded through the Android Market) Better search results (ordering and matching) When searching Hanzi, now matches against both Traditional & Simplified characters

Changes since 1.4.0 are: User is notified (one-time dialog box) when a dictionary update becomes available When the search text matches both Pinyin and English, now the English results are shown (as well as the Pinyin/English buttons). The idea here is its better to show something rather than nothing Streamlined the search engine

Changes are: Voice recognition (Android 2.1+ only) - uses Google’s remote voice recognition engine which is supposed to support both English and Mandarin Chinese, but, in my tests, actually only supports English. Still its a nice feature to add! Custom Search - touch the magnifying glass (top right of search screen) and you are presented with alternative ways to match dictionary entries. In the as-you-type mode, prefix-matching is always performed (e.

Solves the issue where showing all the favourites, but none being stored, could cause a Force Close.

Lots of behind the scenes improvements here primarily geared towards the search results, in particular ordering. Exact matches always come before inexact matches. Searching using traditional vs simplified characters gives the same results. For example, if you search for “国” while in Traditional Mode, you will still see the result for “國” (which is the traditional variant). Before, you would get no results. Note - you need to update the dictionary to get this behaviour.

Not too many new features as such, but lots of improvements to the way the dictionary is installed & updated. dictionary & audio now downloaded from internet ability to cancel dictionary install mid-way through notification bar shows dictionary install progress/completion About screen checks for dictionary update availability better layout of icons at top of Word Details screen - should be easier to hit clipboard icon etc uses new dictionary (1.1.2 - you may need to update your existing dictionary) which includes better idioms list and updated CC-CEDICT dictionary data at more discrete location: /sdcard/Android/data new website (forum and blog) By the way, the Hanping Dict CC-CCEDICT app in the Market is no longer needed (since the dictionary data is now downloaded from the Internet).

Updated recognition engine Bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Added support for Hanping Dictionary’s new Notes feature. Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a minor update. Shows HSK level, custom taggings and whether starred Updated recognition engine Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a minor update: Fixed problem (Android 7.1) regarding Launch Camera App Note: 2.4.2 (July 2016) fixed problem loading images on some Samsung devices (mark/reset issue) Available from the Google Play Store.

New app announcement: Hanping Chinese Popup. Available on Google Play Store. This is a minor update: Improved character recognition Auto-snapshot cropping bug fix Available from the Google Play Store.

These are minor bug fix updates and include information about our new free app Hanping Chinese SoundBox which helps beginners learn Chinese pronunciation. Available from the Google Play Store. Available from the Google Play Store

New app announcement: Hanping Chinese Popup. Available on Google Play Store. This is a minor update: Added support for Google Translate integration Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

New app announcement: Hanping Chinese Popup. Available on Google Play Store. This is a minor update: Added support for Android Marshmallow Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Since YouTube is unavailable in mainland China, our product demo videos (currently Hanping Popup and Hanping Camera) are now also available on Youku i.youku.com/hanpingchinese

New app announcement: Hanping Chinese Popup. Available on Google Play Store. This is a minor update: Aesthetically improved tutorial Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

We’ve finally got around to making a quick demo video of our Hanping Chinese Camera app!

Updated app icon to material design Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a significant improvement on the bug fix updates from last week: Live mode: Better operation in low light Live mode: Less aggressive refocusing strategy Improved downsampling mode Fixed Live Preview alignment issue (Xiaomi Mi 2) Live mode: More accurate focusing (2.0.7) Replaced one of the traditional character sample images (2.0.7) Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a series of significant bug fix updates on the major 2.0 update released last month. Faster recognition to auto-snapshot in Live mode Further improvements in support of high res images. Got a 10,000 by 10,000 pixel image with characters only 10 pixels high? No problem for Hanping! If you are using SIMP-only mode and have an image containing Traditional characters, Hanping will show a simple “toast” message informing you.

This update brings a UI refresh of Material Design goodness and is currently being rolled out to all devices running Android 4.4 (KitKat) and higher. The rollout may take a few days to complete. Improved recognition Material Design and redesigned action barn - even more user-friendly :) Navigation Drawer Better support for high-res images - now (on most newer devices) you can work with up to 16 megapixels. This is great when you are working with a page containing a lot of text, such as a large menu Updated sample images - now there are two sets; one for Simplified characters and one for Traditional characters.

Minor bug fixes. Available from the Google Play Store.

Fixed crashing on 4.4 (KitKat) devices. Available from the Google Play Store.

1.2.2 is a minor bug fix update on 1.2.1. Available from the Google Play Store.

1.2.1 is a very minor update on 1.2.0 which includes: Improved first time installation experience if user does not already have Hanping dictionary installed (1.2.1-only) Fixed Gallery bug (saving image) Better About screen Simpler Settings screen Some bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

1.1.6 (Android 2.2) & 1.1.7 (Android 2.3+) are minor updates including: Faster recognition library (1.1.6 for armeabi, 1.1.7 for armeabi-v7a) Some bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

1.1.5 is a bug fix update which includes: New app icon! Fixed problem with devices where the camera preview resolution is considerably lower than the screen resolution More informative feedback to user when camera unable to focus - try holding the camera further from the text Several other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, and 1.1.4 are bug fix updates on 1.1.0 which includes: Merges multiple matches into one (e.g. 的 de) Invoke app from Screenshot Captured notification Better custom font support Supports phonetic coloring Several bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Fixed bug when prompting user to install dictionary app - they were incorrectly being taken to the old Hanping Chinese Classic app rather than the new Hanping Chinese Dictionary Lite app. Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a bugfix release on the beta version released earlier this year. Some old Gingerbread devices (predominantly Samsung ones) were showing the Live view sideways. This is now fixed, but if you are still having problems see the Compatibility section of the Settings screen to control it Renamed app from Hanping Chinese OCR to Hanping Chinese Camera Supports Move to SD card Fixed crash when attempting to complete Hanping Chinese Dictionary installation from Camera app More bug fixes If you see any bugs, such as a stretched/rotated Live preview, please email us.

Better memory management and less battery usage More bug fixes If you see any bugs, such as a stretched Live preview, please email us. Available from the Google Play Store.

UI tweaks including brighter tone coloring and more transparent grey overlay. Blue recognition line now green. Some bug fixes If you see any bugs, such as a stretched Live preview, please email us. Available from the Google Play Store.

Fixed some rare crashes Better handling of out of memory errors Available from the Google Play Store.

Updated recognition engine Fixed Quick Settings Tile state Long-tap on copy button was not working Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Added support for Hanping Dictionary’s new Notes feature. Available from the Google Play Store.

Popup shows tags (e.g. “hsk 1”, custom tags etc) Long-press star icon to assign custom tags Bug fix: properly detect characters against left edge Added button to popup to switch between Mandarin & Cantonese (if both Hanping dictionary apps installed) Cleaner notification (Android N) with buttons for Popup settings, hide/show handle, stop Available from the Google Play Store.

This fixes a bug where the soft keyboard would close as soon as the popup window (showing the Chinese headword & definition) appeared. This made it difficult to read Chinese text in the soft keyboard itself (for example, the word suggestions). [country-filter code=“cn” display=“0”] [/country-filter] Available from the Google Play Store

Added support for Android N Quick Settings Tile (version 1.1.5) Fixed Android N bug where tutorial images were not displaying (version 1.1.4) Available from the Google Play Store

These are minor bug fix updates and include information about our new free app Hanping Chinese SoundBox which helps beginners learn Chinese pronunciation. Available from the Google Play Store. Available from the Google Play Store

Fixed Trigger on System Startup Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store

Better popup swipe-to-dismiss: now nicely fades out as you slide left/right and animates away properly Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store

Improved character recognition Added support for Android Marshmallow No longer requires permission to write to external storage (e.g. SD card) From Android Marshmallow upwards, does not require read access to external storage either Several minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store

Here is our new promo video for our latest app for Android Lollipop. The app is available on Google Play Store. If YouTube is blocked, please try youku. And here is a little animated GIF!

This is a minor bugfix update for our app released a couple of months ago. Fixed popup layout issue on devices using unusual system fonts Fixed annoying problem where hiding handle would sometimes bring up main Hanping Popup screen Fixed problem where sometimes popup would show a definition like “See: X” (i.e. not useful) Some minor UI tweaks Available from the Google Play Store

Since YouTube is unavailable in mainland China, our product demo videos (currently Hanping Popup and Hanping Camera) are now also available on Youku i.youku.com/hanpingchinese

We’re delighted to announce our brand new app: Hanping Chinese Popup (Android Lollipop) The ultimate solution for quickly looking up Chinese words on your smartphone or tablet, no matter what app (or system screens) you are using. (Video also available on Youku for those in mainland China) The green/white “handle” hovers on top of all of your apps, and when you place it next to a Chinese word, you are presented with a popup showing not only the pronunciation and definition, but also buttons allowing you to: copy-to-clipboard, play audio, and star (add to favorites).