Turn Android phone into a electronic dictionary

Remember these electronic Japanese dictionaries called Denshijisho when you were studying Japanese, probably not, because you don't speak Japanese. Any ways, these electronic dictionaries costs a fortune, but I'm going to show you how to turn your Android phone into one of Denshijisho for umm... FREE. All you need is your Android phone and your hacking skillls.

First you will need to download an app called Droidwing, this will be your dictionary client on your Android phone, there is also a free version of this app on Google Play.

Now all you need to to find dictionaries in EPWING format, according to wikipedia 

EPWING（イーピーウィング）は、電子辞書の標準形式。EPWINGのサブセット(V1相当)がJIS X 4081「日本語電子出版検索データ構造」として制定されている。

What it says is EPWING is basically the standard format for Denshijisho, so dictionaries loaded onto Denshijisho are always in EPWING format and if you can find them, then you can use that dictionary on your phone. So you ask what is the difference between EPWING dictionaries and the one you can readily on Play store, well the difference is huge, all EPWING are professional dictionaries while the ones on Play are most based on open source EDICT database. All Japanese to Japanese are all EPWING while free Japanese dictionary apps are always Japanese to English and vise versa.

So if you want good Japanese to Japanese dictionary (国語辞典) like Koujien, Daijirin, Shinjirin, Meikyo on your phone, you will either have to pay hundreds of dollars or find a to get EPWING files and open them in Droidwing.

Here is screenshot of my phone, I have uploaded all major Japanese 国語辞典 to Droidwing, and my Android phone has since replaced my Denshijisho.

-Xiao Chuan Sun