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WWWJDIC for Android 1.8.7 Released

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The latest version is now available in the Android Market  and soon in the Amazon Appstore. Example search has been largely improved by using a feature recently added to  WWWJDIC 's API . While clicking on the 'Ex.' button next to a dictionary entry would only show you sentences containing the exact word before, searching for examples is a lot 'smarter' now. It now matches inflected words, alternative spellings and more. For example, searching for 飲む will match 飲んだ, as well as のまない; searching for 綺麗 will match きれい, キレイな, as well as the original 綺麗, of course. Up to 100 sentences matching the query will be returned by default. For common words, you might want to turn the 'Random examples' option in Settings on. If you do, you will get 10 random examples containing the target word each time you search, giving you a much broader view of the word's usage. Another new feature in this release is support for optical character recognition (OCR) of gallery im