Lexica: The Android Word Game
Lexica is a word game that is available on the Android platform. Players are given 3 to 30 minutes to find as many words as possible on a grid of random letters.
Features:
- Several international dictionaries, with a combined total of millions of words
- Multiplayer mode (send challenges to friends via SMS/Email/etc)
- Customisable game modes:
- 4x4, 5x5, and 6x6 sized boards
- Different durations
- Various scoring modes
Screenshots
Contributing
Support
Lexica is an open source, GPLv3 game. It will always be freely available via F-Droid, or for anyone to build, fork, or improve via the source code.
If you wish to support further development, you can do so via:
Reporting Issues
Please report any issues or suggest features on the issue tracker.
Translating
We use Weblate to manage translations. Please see these instructions for using Weblate to translate Lexica.
Submitting changes
Pull requests will be warmly received at https://github.com/lexica/lexica.
Add a new language
Please read the documentation for adding a new language.
Compiling
This app uses a typical gradle folder structure.
- To build (a debug version):
gradle assembleDebug - To run tests:
gradle test
Alternatively, you can import the project into Android Studio and build/run tests from there.
Differences from original
This fork is based on the original Lexic.
Some differences include:
- Multiple international dictionaries and an internationalised UI.
- New scoring modes, hint modes, and other options.
- New user interface, including multiple themes.
Lexica API
A lot of work from many people in the community has gone into producing localised dictionaries for Lexica. To share this so that you can make your own word games, or your own Lexica versions, this information is published at:
