Android Dictionary

Question

Is there a dictionary API for Android. I am mainly looking for simple features like:

-- Given a word, look up its meaning -- Look up all words that begin with "cat"

Thanks Chris

Answer 1

As CommonWare mentioned there is nothing that comes with android for that. But have a look at the google translate api. At least an ajax version seems to be available to integrate in your website. Maybe it is possible to use this service from your application as well.

You will need to find an external web service that does this for you(Google translate or something else) to get this functionality in your app.

Answer 2

Google Translate has a simple API that doesn't require Javascript (but you can't look up words that start with cat there).
I'll make the contract for Wordoholic Dictionary public soon (which can look up this way).