QuickWord

Select a word anywhere on Android → its definition appears as a notification. No app switch, works offline, back to reading in five seconds.

Successor in spirit to NotificationDictionary, rebuilt in Kotlin + Jetpack Compose with modern Wiktionary data.

How it works

• Select text in any app → QuickWord in the selection menu (or Share) → a heads-up notification with the definition and [Thesaurus] [Open] [Save] actions. The Thesaurus button swaps the notification to synonyms in place.
• No dictionary hit? The word is looked up on Wikipedia (proper nouns, places, people), with attribution.
• The app itself: serif-typeset word pages (Literata), prefix search, recents & favourites, pronunciation via TTS.

Data

• Definitions/synonyms: kaikki.org wiktextract of the English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0). 1.4M words, built by etl/build_db.py, shipped as a GitHub Release the app downloads on first run (a small starter dictionary is bundled).
• Wikipedia summaries: Wikimedia REST API, CC BY-SA. Optionally offline: an opt-in 38 MB corpus of the top 50,000 article lead paragraphs, built from a Kiwix mini ZIM by etl/build_wiki.py. Kiwix has already solved which articles matter and how to get a clean lead out of wikitext; libzim is a build-time tool only, so nothing GPL ships.

Building

mise install         # JDK, Gradle, Python
mise run verify      # the whole gate: palette/schema parity, ktlint, detekt, lint, tests
mise run build       # debug APK
mise run shots       # render screens to PNGs (Roborazzi)
mise run etl         # rebuild the dictionary DB from a kaikki dump
mise run etl:wiki    # rebuild the offline Wikipedia corpus from a Kiwix ZIM
mise run build:release  # R8-minified release APK
mise run bundle         # Play upload AAB
mise run store-assets   # regenerate listing images in fastlane/metadata

Release builds are debug-signed unless an untracked keystore.properties sits at the repo root, so assembleRelease works for anyone and only uploads need the real key. Publishing steps (signing, Play data-safety answers, F-Droid submission) are in RELEASING.md; privacy in PRIVACY.md.

Android SDK: platform 37. See PLAN.md for architecture (and its adversarial-refutation tables), DESIGN.md/PRODUCT.md for the design system.

Support

QuickWord is free and always will be. If it saved you a trip to a browser, buy me a coffee.

License

Code: MIT. Bundled fonts: Literata & Inter (OFL, shipped inside the app at app/src/main/assets/licenses/ and shown on the app's About screen). Dictionary data: CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wiktionary contributors).