On 03/07/2013 01:39 PM, Fabio Alessandro Locati wrote:
Hi everyone,
After a brief talk with YuviPanda in IRC, I decided to start the
development of a new Wikipedia Mobile application for Android. Why not
continue the develop of the previous version? YuviPanda discouraged me
since it was developped in PhoneGap and he noticed that the tool does
not suite our needs. So this new version will be 100% native.
Do you have any thoughts/suggestions/[other]?
Thank you for your help, Fabio.
First it would be good to know whether someone is already working or
planning to work here on a native Wikipedia app for Android, with open
source license and an aim to become official.
Then I would go for feature parity with the current official Wikipedia
app as it runs in Android. I would also follow the look & feel as much
as possible except for those cases where the Android native suits
better. Maybe the team that maintains the official app has better advice
on this.
Last but not least, don't call it "Wikipedia" and don't use the
Wikipedia trademarks during the development process. We can sort that
out when there is a good candidate to evaluate.
PS: we started drafting a proposal for the process an app has to follow
to become official at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/proposal . Feedback and
edits welcome.
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
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