Another minor-update-with-a-few-feature-changes, in this case addressing the issue of tone colors in Night Mode (about which we've received an astonishing number of emails) and adding a much nicer / easier way to install add-ons downloaded outside of the app (similar to the system we use on iPhone).
Also, our little launcher apps are now finished, on Android Market, and have their own "get" links:
http://pleco.com/getflashlauncher
http://pleco.com/getocrlauncher
http://pleco.com/getreaderlauncher
New Features
Design Tweaks
Bug Fixes
Also, our little launcher apps are now finished, on Android Market, and have their own "get" links:
http://pleco.com/getflashlauncher
http://pleco.com/getocrlauncher
http://pleco.com/getreaderlauncher
New Features
- Added much easier methods to install files downloaded from outside of Pleco; there's a new package containing only Pleco's required files that you can place in the root directory of your device's storage memory to have Pleco automatically detect and offer to install the files from it, and a new menu command in "Add-ons" to install a single Pleco add-on package from a .zip archive.
- Added night-mode-specific settings for tone colors and for the color of highlighted instances of the headword in example sentences; if you've already installed Pleco then these will default to preserving your old colors, but for new users they'll be a bit lighter and easier to spot against a dark background, and you can customize them to whatever you like.
- Officially released our new "launcher icon" apps - these add extra icons to your Android program launcher screen to instantly open up Pleco in flashcard / reader / OCR mode.
Design Tweaks
- Lightened the color of the full-text match highlighting in Night Mode (though for various technical reasons we haven't yet it made it customizable).
- Made the handwriting recognition candidate highlight disappear when tapping on the search input field.
- Added a helpful error message when attempting to restore an old database via Import Cards instead of Restore Database.
- Made the popup reader scroll up text at the bottom of English-Chinese dictionary entries in two-panel mode so that it's visible above the bottom toolbar, or turn the toolbar transparent when that's impossible.
- Made the option to clear pending purchases in Add-ons available when tapping on the Restore button as well as the Buy button.
- Made the duplicate card dialog scrollable on devices with small screens that can't otherwise fit the whole thing.
- Made the "Words" definition tab list scroll to the top when changing between 1 / 2+ / 1+.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that prevented the insertion point from appearing correctly in the input field on devices running Android 4.0 when in handwriting or radical input mode.
- Fixed a crashing bug when opening up images in OCR by "Send"ing them from the Gallery app.
- Fixed a crashing bug in OCR when opening up invalid still images in general.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the currently selected characters from being highlighted correctly in the document reader in Night Mode.
- Fixed two obscure crashing bugs when downloading add-ons on a device with very low storage memory and/or very low RAM.
- Fixed a bug that prevented entries from being consistently added to history on tablets when the definition remains visible with input open; now, if you simply go 3 seconds without changing the text in the search field or otherwise navigating to a different entry, Pleco will add the current entry to history.