Re: [android-developers] Re: Dictionary for word game ..pls help :)

2011-02-06 Thread Justin Giles
Keep in mind though that depending on the word app, constantly hitting a remote resource is going to cause delays. It would be best to at least cache several words local to the device if you are using that approach. Also, you would need to keep in mind that a user may or may not have an active

[android-developers] Re: Dictionary for word game ..pls help :)

2011-02-05 Thread Traveler
Have you considered Sqlite? I'm using it in a speeling app I'm developing. Jerry On Feb 5, 3:36 pm, nivedita arora vivaciousnived...@gmail.com wrote: hi, i really need help. i am making a word game for college which uses  words of length 4 to 7. i have a certain array of string containing

[android-developers] Re: Dictionary for word game ..pls help :)

2011-02-05 Thread DanH
A trie would be most efficient, but probably a pre-built Sqlite file would be (much) simpler to implement. On Feb 5, 2:36 pm, nivedita arora vivaciousnived...@gmail.com wrote: hi, i really need help. i am making a word game for college which uses  words of length 4 to 7. i have a certain

[android-developers] Re: Dictionary for word game ..pls help :)

2011-02-05 Thread cellurl
You might consider starting with an example. I once started with some code from Progmatic Bookshelf called Translate. You should try it. I found it, its in this zip file under /code/ Translate. It connects to wikipedia and does word searching perhaps similar to what you require.