wish: separate network permission as plugin

[kcwu]

some people may love a dictionary doesn't require any permissions.

ideas:

1. A plugin app: Only the plugin require network permission. Moedict can support network audio after install the plugin.
2. A plugin app which bundle audio data offline.
3. Build another app without network audio feature.

[audreyt]

Option 2 would be best, but according to MoE they're just a licenser of the audio data (and not its licensee), so Copyright Act §50 would not cover our fair use in including those .mp3 data.

I'd be happy to implement option 1 if there's some sample code / prior art available. :-)

[audreyt]

Now that we have ~6G of data including Mandarin voice files from dict.concised.moe.edu.tw, Option 2 is no longer an option. I'll research into Option 1 and links/tips welcome!

[audreyt]

Now that stroke animation also requires network access, this is getting even more difficult. :-)

As only 5.96% of our users opted to stay at 0.3.3 (the last offline-only version), I'm inclined to close this as won't fix for now.

[kcwu]

Actually , i want to suggest make strokes offline :)
I always feel it takes so long to load stroke data. what's the size of stroke data?

[audreyt]

208M uncompressed, 10M tar.gz.

[audreyt]

OK now stroke is offline, we can reconsider this. Here's a tentative plan:

• Release "國語萌典" "臺語萌典" "客家萌典" "兩岸萌典" as separate offline versions, each including stroke data
• of the four above, 國語 and 兩岸 can go without audio and so network permission becomes non-needed
• I still think 臺/客 works better with pronunciations, so maybe keep them?

Opinions welcome (note we still ship the all-combined version as usual.)

[audreyt]

Tentative sketch of icons: All-combined, Mandarin, Cross-Strait, Hakka, Taiwanese Holok:

[audreyt]

Tentative sketch of launcher (small) icons: All-combined, Mandarin, Cross-Strait, Hakka, Taiwanese Holok:

[kcwu]

This is code snippet to load one app's asset from another app.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12716607/accessing-assets-of-other-android-app-on-jelly-bean

[audreyt]

Cool, that will allow them to reuse stroke data — and audio data too if we ever get the licensing stuff sorted out.