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Aard2 is a simple and fast dictionnary reader for large dictionnaries. Aard2 for Android is a successor to Aard Dictionary for Android. It comes with redesigned user interface, bookmarks, history and a better dictionary storage format which allow additionnal functions like picture download.
Here are some basic instructions for the app, addressing Aard2-Beginners, which just don't know about Aard2 and want to give it a try.
Aard2 is running on Android 4.03 and above. As it is not yet on Google Play, you have to install it from here (Github). You need to allow installation of "Unknown sources" if you want to install Aard2, e.g. see here: http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-install-apps-outside-of-google-play/
To use Aard2 you need dictionaries, without a dictionary Aard2 is useless. These dictionary-files have the file-ending slob. In other words: Aard2 can read slob-files. Read here about slob. You can get dictionaries from: https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Dictionaries You can download dictionaries first, save them to your phone and install Aard2 after or vice versa. So as dictionaries can be very large files, best is to begin with downloading them first. You can put them on your phone in any directory you want, you can save them to your internal or, if available, external sd-card, there is no difference for Aard2.
To use any dictionary, you first need to let Aard2 know where they are. Aard2 has a tool to search them, you need to start this first, before you can use the dictionaries.
If you tap the Dictionary-Tab, this is the tab with the book-icon, on the right top you will see a Sync-Icon, two circled arrows. You tap this button and wait till Aard2 searched through the whole sd-cards. Without any dictionary it will look like this:
The search could take a while, depending on your device and the size of your sd-cards. You will read:
Please wait
Scanning device for dictionaries...
After the search you will have listed all your dictionaries in this window (the Dictionaries-tab), where you can disable or re-enable each dictionary, or you can delete it from the list (not from the sd-card!). You also can get information about the amount of items and the storage path of each dictionary file by tapping the arrow under the dictionary.
The history tab, the one with the circle-arrow around a clock, shows recently visited articles of all dictionaries.
The maximum ammount of entries is limited to hundred, same as the Bookmarks.
If you want to delete any entry, long tap on it and you can use the Garbage-Icon to delete it. You also can check more entries or you tap the Checked-Icon beside the Garbage-Icon to check all and delete them.