Android context menu and lookups

[Jed Copestone]

Hi,

In Android 10 I can do lookups by selecting text / longpressing for the context menu / selecting Aard 2. In Android 12 my only option is share / Aard 2.

I have two questions:

1. Is it possible to add Aard 2 to the context menu in Android 12 (One UI 4.1) so that I don't have to go via share?

2. Whichever method I use, I am taken to a specific dictionary entry rather than the list of results showing which dictionaries have hits. Is there any way to change this so that I am taken to the results page, as if I'd done a manual search?

Thanks 

[Igor Tkach]

On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 10:38 AM Jed Copestone <ga...@fastmail.net> wrote:

In Android 10 I can do lookups by selecting text / longpressing for the context menu / selecting Aard 2. In Android 12 my only option is share / Aard 2.

Are you sure? It's there for me on Android 12, same as before, but it is buried under ⋮ menu, and even there it may not be visible until you scroll the ⋮ popup down.

The long press popup content depends on the words you select (a concept? geographical) and depending on that the overflow under ⋮ varies in length,

and tailing items may be pushed out of visibility (Aard 2 is the last in the list for me). I don't think applications can influence their placing in the context menu.

I have two questions:

1. Is it possible to add Aard 2 to the context menu in Android 12 (One UI 4.1) so that I don't have to go via share?

2. Whichever method I use, I am taken to a specific dictionary entry rather than the list of results showing which dictionaries have hits. Is there any way to change this so that I am taken to the results page, as if I'd done a manual search?

Not in the current version, no. The view you get is not just a specific dictionary entry though, it's a list of results, matching what you would get in the lookup screen but with actual articles instead of just title and navigating to the next one with a swipe instead of scrolling. When you get a match for your lookup it typically saves a click. When you get no results for your lookup you just get a short toast message saying so, and perhaps there could be a better behavior in this case.

Why do you prefer to go to the lookup screen instead?

Thanks 

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[Jed Copestone]

Thanks a lot for getting back to me.

I don't have the ⋮ on my context menu in Android 12, only copy, share and select all. I vaguely thought the ⋮ was a kind of overflow and wouldn't be shown if there was nothing to go in it.

I hadn't realized it was possible to get to the other hits via swipe. I see now they are shown on a bar along the top. That is probably a better solution than going to the lookup screen anyway. 

[Igor Tkach]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 8:23 AM Jed Copestone <ga...@fastmail.net> wrote:

I don't have the ⋮ on my context menu in Android 12, only copy, share and select all. I vaguely thought the ⋮ was a kind of overflow and wouldn't be shown if there was nothing to go in it.

Taking another look, I see that Aard 2 shows up in the context menu only for some applications, e.g. I see it in web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, DuckDuckGo), but not in email programs (GMail). Looks like Android 11 indeed made changes to how applications can interact, some details here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67660035/process-text-not-visible-in-text-selection-menu-in-most-apps-after-android-11 . My understanding is that it is up to the other applications to declare that they want to be able to query either Aard 2 specifically or any app that supports PROCESS_TEXT intent like so.

 

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