About this app

This free offline Italian dictionary application explains the meaning of Italian words, based on Italian Wiktionary. This is a monolingual dictionary only in Italian, i.e. words must be entered in Italian. Warning: lot of words are missing due to the italian Wiktionary's incompleteness.

Features
♦ Over 70000 Italian words, large number of inflected forms and conjugation of verbs
♦ Fast as it works offline, internet is used only when a word is not found in the offline dictionary
♦ You can leaf through words using your finger (swipe right and left)
♦ Easy and functional user interface, optimized also for tablets
♦ Bookmarks and search history with option to backup your bookmarks
♦ Crossword help: the symbol ? can be used in place of single unknown letter. The symbol * can be used in place of any group of letters.
♦ Random search (shuffle): useful to learn new words
♦ Share word definition using other apps, like gmail or whatsapp
♦ Compatible with Moon+ Reader and FBReader
♦ Personal notes, write your own text
♦ Camera search via OCR Plugin, available only on devices with back camera. (Settings->Floating Action Button->Camera). The OCR Plugin has to be downloaded from Google Play.

Your settings
♦ Black and white themes with user defined text colors (press menu-->select Settings-->click on Theme)
♦ Optional Floating Action Button (FAB) supporting one of the following actions: Search, History, Favorites, Random search and Share option
♦ Persistent Search option to get automatic keyboard at startup
♦ Text to speech options
♦ Number of items in history
♦ Customable font size and line spacing

You can listen to the word pronunciation, provided that voice data have been installed in your phone (Text-to-speech engine).

Acknowledgements, comments and useful suggestions are welcome.

You can improve the Italian dictionary by adding the missing definitions using the site http://it.wiktionary.org

Question & Answers: http://goo.gl/UnU7V
Information about permissions used by the application can be found here: http://goo.gl/AsqT4C

Information for application developers:
✔ This application provides Dictionary API for 3rd party developers, please read further details: http://thesaurus.altervista.org/dictionary-android

This application requires the following permissions:
♢ INTERNET - to retrieve the definition of missing words
♢ WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (aka Photos/Media/Files) - to backup configuration and bookmarks

New features

Version 6.7
♦ Application UI updated to Material Design 3 (note: automatic theme can be disabled in application settings)

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to read from external storage.