DPD Flutter App

Native offline Flutter app for the Digital Pali Dictionary.

Features

• Offline dictionary lookup via local SQLite database
• Full-text search with Pāḷi-aware collation and Velthuis transliteration
• Android text selection integration — select any word in any app → "Look up in DPD"
• Entry sections: grammar, examples, inflection/conjugation/declension tables, word families (root, word, compound, idioms, sets), frequency heatmap, notes, feedback
• Material 3 UI with dark/light theme
• Webapp-parity styling matching the DPD webapp dictionary pane

Tech Stack

• Flutter/Dart — latest stable
• Drift — type-safe SQLite ORM with code generation
• Riverpod — reactive state management
• flutter_html — render pre-built HTML content
• url_launcher — external links (sutta references, feedback forms)

Development

Prerequisites

• Flutter 3.29+
• Android SDK (for device/emulator testing)
• Sibling dpd-db repo at ../dpd-db/

Setup

flutter pub get
dart run build_runner build
ln -sf /path/to/dpd-db/dpd.db assets/db/dpd.db
flutter run

The app uses the full dpd.db in debug mode (via hardcoded dev path). In production it downloads mobile.db from GitHub Releases.

Code Generation

After changing lib/database/tables.dart or any Riverpod provider:

dart run build_runner build --delete-conflicting-outputs

Spec-Driven Development

This project uses Conductor for spec-driven development. Tracks, specs, and plans live in conductor/.

conductor/
├── product.md              # Product vision and goals
├── product-guidelines.md   # Visual identity and UX guidelines
├── tech-stack.md           # Packages and platform targets
├── tracks.md               # Master track list
├── tracks/                 # Active tracks
└── archive/                # Completed tracks

Bundle ID

net.dpdict.app