Android: best way to search for Greek word in BDAG

I have BDAG on my Android tablet and phones, but find it near to impossible to search BDAG for a Greek wordform... It's a piece of cake on the 'desktop' platform, but a real challenge (for me) on the mobile platform. How do others do this?

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Paul Unger

Hmmm... Maybe there's a reason no one has responded yet--what I'm trying to do is difficult enough that no one uses BDAG on their mobile device. [bump]

Graham Criddle

The best options I am aware of are:

Navigate in BDAG through the table of contents
Long-press on the word of interest in the text, click Info, run a Bible Word Study and then select BDAG from the list of lexicons.

I would probably prefer the first option

TCBlack

Graham has given you the only effective ways. Even with a Greek keyboard installed, I am unable to search for words. Typing diacritics is nearly impossible on my chosen keyboard. Navigating the TOC is your best bet.

Paul Unger

Thanks for chiming in, Graham. Your tip about the 'table of contents' was helpful. Still took a bit of digging to figure it out, but I finally found it by:

pressing once in the BDAG screen area for the 'tools' to appear (Menu, Star, Edit, Clipboard, etc., on the top and 'blue slider' on the bottom)
press Menu (the first icon; four stacked lines) for the Table of Contents (TOC) to appear
press the > at the far right of the letter in index (this is very faint in the black screen mode that the TOC appears in... [any reason it has a black background? can this be changed?])
press the > at the far right of the 'range of words' that the one you're looking for is in
select the word you're looking for

As for "long press, click Info, and run a Bible Word Study": I wish that was an option, but the only option I get is 'Search' (how do I enable more features in Android? It has always seemed 'neutered' when compared to the desktop version). And Search takes FOREVER; in fact, I've never actually had the patience for a search to complete, and I have waited for many many minutes... So I can see why you prefer the first method! Thanks again.