RD - Getting Started

First launch and tutorial

The first time you open RinoDicionarios, the app chooses a language for you and shows a short tutorial of the search screen.

Language

The app starts in your phone's language if it is Galician, Spanish, English or Latin, and in Galician otherwise. You can change it at any moment in Settings → Idioma / Language. See Settings.

Tutorial

A short guide highlights the main controls one by one: the search field, the dictionary picker, reverse search and the buttons of a result card. Tap the highlighted element to go to the next step.

Tutorial step highlighting the dictionary picker with the text Switch dictionaries

One of the tutorial steps, over the dictionary picker.

Note: The tutorial is only shown once. To watch it again, go to Settings → Watch tutorial again.

Word of the day

So that it does not cover the tutorial, the Word of the day is not shown on the first launch. From the next time you open the app, it shows a random word once a day. See Word of the day.

Word of the day window with the entry silúrico, silúrica

The Word of the day window, shown the first time you open the app each day.

Home screen

The search screen is the home of RinoDicionarios: from here you choose a dictionary, search for words, repeat recent searches and move to your favorites or settings.

Getting there

The search screen opens every time you start the app. It is the Explore tab in the bar at the bottom of the screen; from any other screen, go back with the arrow in the top-left corner until you reach it.

Search screen with the Spanish-Galician dictionary, recent searches and numbered markers on the main controls

The search screen with the Spanish-Galician dictionary selected. The numbers mark the controls described below.

  1. Settings: The gear icon in the top-right corner opens Settings, where you change the language, the default dictionary, the theme and other options. See Settings.
  2. Search field: Type the word you want to look up. The text above the field tells you what to type in the selected dictionary (for example, Write the word in Spanish to find the equivalent in Galician), and the field shows an example word that changes every time. See Searching the dictionaries.
  3. Dictionary picker: Shows the dictionary you are searching in. Tap it to switch between the four dictionaries: Spanish-Galician, Etymological, Supplementary and Latin-Galician.
  4. Reverse: Turns reverse search on or off, to search from Galician into Spanish or Latin. It is only shown for the Spanish-Galician and Latin-Galician dictionaries. See Reverse search below.
  5. Dictionary information: The number of entries in the selected dictionary and the date it was last updated.
  6. Recent searches: Your last searches in the selected dictionary, the most recent first. Tap one to search it again.
  7. Explore: The search screen you are on.
  8. Favorites: Opens the words you have saved. See Favorites.

Note: Your phone's back button also works inside the app: on the Favorites tab it takes you back to Explore, and on the Explore tab it first clears the current search. Pressing it on the empty search screen closes the app.

Reverse search lets you search the Spanish-Galician and Latin-Galician dictionaries the other way round: you type a Galician word and the app finds the Spanish or Latin entries where it appears. It is turned on and off with the Reverse button (number 4 in the screenshot above), which is only shown for these two dictionaries. This feature is in BETA.

Dictionary Reverse off Reverse on
Spanish-Galician Spanish → Galician Galician → Spanish
Latin-Galician Latin → Galician Galician → Latin

Turning reverse search on

Tap Reverse. The button turns white to show it is on, and the text above the search field changes, for example to Write the word in Galician to find the equivalent in Spanish.

Search screen with the Reverse button turned on and the text Write the word in Galician to find the equivalent in Spanish

Reverse search turned on in the Spanish-Galician dictionary.

Tap Reverse again to go back to normal search. Turning it on or off clears the search you had on screen.

Searching in reverse

The search works as usual: type the Galician word and pick a suggestion or tap the search key on your keyboard. The suggestions are Spanish (or Latin) entries whose definition contains the Galician word you typed.

Reverse search for bolbor with the suggestions mariposa, grumo, palomilla and efecto

Typing "bolbor" in reverse: mariposa, grumo, palomilla and efecto all mention "bolboreta" in their definitions.

When you tap the search key, the app shows the first entry found.

Reverse search for bolboreta showing the Spanish entry mariposa

Searching the Galician word "bolboreta" returns the Spanish entry "mariposa", whose first sense is bolboreta.

Note: In reverse search, the app saves the Spanish or Latin word it found (in the example, mariposa) in your recent searches, not the Galician word you typed. Tapping it later searches it in the normal direction.

Note: The app remembers whether reverse search was on the next time you open it. If you switch to the Etymological or Supplementary dictionary, reverse search is turned off automatically.