Available from the Google Play Store.

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:

• Search term is highlighted in results, when searching English
• Improved support for long phrases/sentences.  Try pasting a Chinese SMS into the search box and you get instant Pinyin and Simplified/Traditional conversion, as well as all the vocab!
• You can now disable ads (see Settings screen)

So why buy the Pro version?

• Chinese handwriting recognition:  This is much more convenient than using a 3rd party IME, not just because it is built directly into the Search screen but also because it waits for you after each stroke!
• Homescreen widgets:  Have one, two, three (or as many as you like) widgets on your homescreen to test/remind yourself of the words that are important to you.  You assign a Hanping word list to each widget so you can test yourself on all your starred words, or just the ones with a certain tag, or maybe use a predefined word list such as frequent characters or popular idioms.
• Audio by a real native Chinese speaker:  Over 2,000 single-syllable audio files with support for Erhua variants.  These are designed for the beginner, so are spoken slowly and clearly
• Multi-dictionary support.  If you want your dictionary defintions to have more grammar and sample sentences then you need to  invest in a high quality dictionary!  The superb ABC Chinese-English & ABC English-Chinese dictionaries are available as separate in-app purchases.  We have worked very hard to integrate these seamlessly into the app.  So, no need to cycle through dictionaries to find the word you are looking for. Instead, Hanping Pro merges the results so you can see everything in one go
• Last but not least, Hanping Pro is, for a limited time, on special offer – HALF PRICE!

SMS breakdown

Browse Screen is now in Hanping Lite

Hanping Lite is available from the Google Play Store.

We hope you like these new changes and are always grateful for your feedback.

Many thanks,

embermitre

• 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! *
• Improved search engine
• (ABC English-Chinese only) when searching English, can now switch (using top-left icon) between English and Chinese headword results
• When searching English, search word is now highlighted in bold in the search results
• Better support for Android Intents – i.e. better interoperability with other apps
• About screen now shows for each dictionary whether there is an update available
• General improvements and some bug fixes

A quick word on Sentence Decomposition…

It’s been over a year now since we introduced the functionality to type a long phrase/sentence into the search box and automatically show the corresponding vocab list (breakdown). You could also see the phrase/sentence in it’s entirety by clicking on the “not in dictionary” item.

Now, we’ve gone one step further.  As you type (or paste) Chinese text into the search box, Hanping automatically works out the Pinyin/Zhuyin. Furthermore, if your settings are set up to show both Simplified & Traditional characters, you will also see the Simplified/Traditional variants.  In other words, you now get automatic Simplified-Traditional-Pinyin/Zhuyin conversion!

Here is the result of pasting a typical Chinese (Simplified form) SMS message:

Available from the Google Play Store.

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!

Available from the Android Market.

• 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.

Available from the Android Market.

Available from the Android Market.

Available from the Android Market.