Well that was short lived. Actually, it was never born.
Before I get all negative, I would like to say I have never had more positive email over any application before in my entire life. I’ve been getting several emails every day with people curious about when this app will be out, how much it will cost, people telling me they will buy iPhones just for this application, and the ever present technical questions. I really want to thank all of you very much.
If you don’t know, XiaoCiDian was going to be an iPhone Application that you could use to lookup Chinese characters via pinyin or characters and get the English meaning. And to a lesser extent, lookup English words and find the proper Chinese characters.
Some people were curious what was powering the dictionary. The 1.0 version was using an old, public domain version of CEDICT, and the new version – the 1.0.1 version which is sitting finished on my computer collecting dust – was going to be using the excellent (and much updated) CC-CEDIT dictionary. CC-CEDICT has many more words, and far less errors than the, really old, public domain CEDICT version 1.0 was going to be using.
The 1.0.1 version had some code improvements too, as well as help – it was all black and slick looking:
However, this application will never be available outside of my own phone. Of course, I can’t say why. I’ll only say that I wont be writing any more iPhone applications (aside from ones people pay me to write for them).
I had several ideas for, what I think are, really cool applications; however, those will just have to wait for Android to come out.
My apologies to everyone who was eager for this application. Look for the Android version when that becomes available.