The first public beta of Hanping Chinese SMS Reader. This app is for those who receive Chinese SMS messages and want to know more about the meaning. You can read the pinyin, vocab list (built using Hanping Chinese Dictionary) and Google Translate translation. You can also play the audio of the message. Optionally, when you receive a Chinese SMS, this app will automatically append the pinyin/translation etc and also raise a system notification.

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