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user1498512
user1498512

Reputation: 33

How can create a dictionary in android?

Am developing A Malayalam-> English dictionary app in android .how can i do this stuff? can anyone please help me.which is the best method to create a dictionary?..all answers are highly appreciative..

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4594

Answers (3)

Edward Falk
Edward Falk

Reputation: 10073

Will your database fit in the limited memory of the device? If so, then go with some sort of Map as suggested above.

Otherwise, it gets complicated. I would put your dictionary into an sqlite3 database and access the database from your app. For performance improvement, I would cache each word locally in a HashMap once it's been looked up. You can get clever and use WeakHashMap instead, which will purge entries from the cache as memory gets tight. (Caveat: does Android implement WeakHashMap?)

Finally, consider implementing a content provider backed up by the above-mentioned sqlite3 database. Then your dictionary is easily accessible by multiple clients and the database only needs to be opened once, by the content provider.

Upvotes: 0

Sats
Sats

Reputation: 885

you can either use hashmap or dictionary class. which use key/value pair concept. to read more about that click the link below-

Click here

Upvotes: 1

hmjd
hmjd

Reputation: 121971

A Map implementation seems the obvious choice for a dictionary, where the key is the Malayalm word and the value is the English word.

Upvotes: 4

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