mdict (*.mdx) file reader based on dictlab/mdict-cpp written by terasum.
Several changes have been made with respect to the original work and some bugs have been fixed. The JNI layer, which the original library doesn't provided, is implemented by me.
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Making sure you have both NDK and cmake in Android studio, the query wouldn't work without them as they are the prerequisites of JNI.
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Import this Gradle project with Android Studio and connect your phone to the computer, make sure USB debugging is enabled.
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run the APP on your phone, usually, the APP will fail to run properly at the first attempt, this is because the mdx file has not been put into the scoped storage of the APP yet.
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put the mdx file into the scoped storage of the APP, in my case, I have put the mdx into /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.example.mdictjnilibrary/files/
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check the MainActivity file in the project, you should modify the global variable path and the global variable word. The path is your mdx file name and the word is the search item. Run the APP again you will see that the returned HTML string is successful rendered.
Due to unknown reasons, for some mdx file, if the webview of Android renders the HTML passed from the jni layer directly, only a partial of the HTML will shown in the webview. I have circumvented this bug by writing the HTML that comes from the jni layer to local storage and then access the local HTML file through webview.
Many thanks to terasum for helping me understand his library and the consultation he provided.
https://bitbucket.org/xwang/mdict-analysis/src/master/
https://github.com/zhansliu/writemdict