JZ2ME ENGLISH TO ENGLISH DICTIONARY USING INDEXED BINARY SEARCH

Abstract

In this era of modern technology life is becoming very easier. To make all activity of the human life easier and convenient, one of the major facts must be considered — device size. With the growth of technology the size of everything is becoming smaller. We everyone wants to get very powerful and effective services from a single, small thing. As an example, a Cell Phone. In present days, Cell Phones or Mobile Phones are not used only in voice or text communications, it provides multimedia, analytical etc functionality as well. Even the powers and working abilities of Cell Phones are becoming higher so that they are called smart phones or some times pocket PCs. In the other hand, English is the de-facto International Language to communicate with the people of different community and different country. Hence, English to English Dictionary can help to learn English in an easy way. As well as various dictionaries as paper copy and software are available for Personal Computers online and offline to learn a language. A few software or application is available for Cell Phones. In this Project English to English Dictionary application software has been developed for Java supported Cell Phones which are widely used in developing countries as Bangladesh. There are some English to English Dictionary applications available for Cell Phones. In this project, a simplified, user-friendly and efficient application has been tried to develop. This Project allows user to search for a specific word and navigate through a list of words and provides the word finder suggestion, selects a word, auto-navigates through the word list, corresponding meaning and synonym finding etc services. To make this application efficient and user-friendly Custom Item to create customized user interface and event handler, separate file-groups or file fragmentation to store the dictionary data and an especial customized searching technique called Indexed Binary Search for finding words from the list quickly have been used. In this paper the requirement, system analysis, system design, implementation, operation process of the system and other things are described very carefully. It is a hope that, this application will help the users to learn English in very different and easier way.