Simple Furigana for Android

This isn’t a great app, but is one of the few that existin this realm. It applies furagana properly above the kanji, which helps with reading but there are many issues. The two largest: 1) The result page isn’t selectable. It comes out as a full image. You can select individual words, kinda…but that leads to 2) Installing new dictionaries isn’t possible. I think the overall goal was to allow one to select a word, and see the definition. You can click ‘install’ on the dictionary, it goes to the store and confirms the free purchase, then proceeds to not install them. Instead, a progress bar sometimes shows some progress, but it never finishes and many times it doesn’t even show that. For $5, roughly, I can’t say I recommend the app. The only problem is trying to recommend an alternative is difficult, given there aren’t many tools in this area, that’s a problem. Part of me wants to try and develop my own solution.

I think the app has great potential, but on Android OS Sierra I seem to get the spinning beach ball and can’t do anything and the app is useless. On El Capitan the app works and is responsive. However, the free in-app purchases of the dictionaries never finish downloading. I haven’t been able to see any translation to English. The speech feature doesn’t seem to read the Japanese, but appears to read individual character codes.