Mobile-l June 2012

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Testing the final(?) RC for the WIkipedia for iOS app
by Yuvi Panda 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

Hello everyone! The Wikipedia for Android app has been released on Google Play, to generally very positive reviews. Thanks to everyone for helping test it! Pre-release testing of the Wikipedia for iOS app found a bunch of bugs, which we've fixed. However, the fix necessitated an upgrade of our underlying Platform (PhoneGap) from 1.4.1 to 1.7. This is a reasonably big change, and would be awesome if you guys could spare a few minutes and test it out. Instructions on installing this on your device: If you have already given us your Device's UDID (yay!) it is much simpler: 1. Download http://dumps.wikimedia.org/iOS/Wikipedia-iOS-3.2RC4.ipa toyour computer 2. Connect your iOS device to the computer 3. Open iTunes 4. Drag the IPA to the 'Apps' section of your device 5. Sync If your device's UDID has not been added, please email me or tfinc(a)wikimedia.org and we'll add it for you. Instructions on finding your UDID here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/How_to_start_beta_testing_iO… Major things to test: 1. Saved pages persist across app restarts. Save Page, Force close the app (not just minimize it (https://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137)) and open app again -> saved pages list is not empty. 2. Sharing via Facebook. First time you'd be asked to log in, and depending on your OS version might have to hit share again. 3. Sharing via Twitter - only on iOS5+ 4. Opening external links - should open fine in Safari 5. Scrolling - on articles large and small. 6. Upgrade testing. This tests the 'Upgrade' process from an older version of the app to the newer version, so that saved pages are migrated properly.http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Pre_launch_checklist#… has instructions on how to do this. Thanks for your help! -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog

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More RCs for Wikipedia app for iOS and Android
by Yuvi Panda 14 Jun '12

14 Jun '12

Hello everyone! We've a mostly final set of RCs for the Wikipedia app for iOS and Android. Unless showstopper bugs are found, these shall go to market in a few days. ## What to test? - Everything mentioned in http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2012-May/005606.html - Opening references, and using links (internal and external) from the reference reveal box - Saving pages, in multiple languages and testing them out. - Cancelling the spinner when it is in progress by tapping the 'X' button. Should actually cancel the current request - Map markers show up properly in Android ICS - Pinch and zoom for the map across all platforms except Android 2.x - Back button and history working properly - previously they just kept taking you back to your current article - Use the app as you normally would, and report anything that goes amiss! ## How to test? For Android: 1. Download http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/Wikipedia-v1.2RC3.apk into your Android device 2. Open it in your device to install it! Note: This build is available from Google Play at http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.beta For iOS: If you have not already given us your device's UDID, you need to do so. Follow the instructions at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/How_to_start_beta_testing_iO… to get started! If you have already given us your Device's UDID (yay!) it is much simpler: 1. Download http://dumps.wikimedia.org/iOS/Wikipedia-iOS-v3.2RC3.ipa to your computer 2. Connect your iOS device to the computer 3. Open iTunes 4. Drag the IPA to the 'Apps' section of your device 5. Sync ## How to provide feedback? You can provide us feedback in multiple ways: 1. Email us at mobile-feedback-l at lists.wikimedia.org 2. Add it to the wiki page: Android(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/WikipediaMobileAndro… or iOS(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/WikipediaMobileiOSFeedba… 3. Find us on IRC - #wikimedia-mobile on freenode -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog

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Sony PRS-T1 ebook reader
by Jakob Unterwurzacher 14 Jun '12

14 Jun '12

Dear list, I have just noticed that I'm not redirected to the mobile version automatically on the Sony PRS-T1 ebook reader. I'd suggest to that as the screen is really too small for the full version. The User-Agent is "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; en-us; EBRD1101; EXT) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1" Best regards, Jakob

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Pending fix for Windows 8 tablet app
by Brion Vibber 12 Jun '12

12 Jun '12

The Windows 8 tablet app started crashing on launch a couple days ago, due to not handling a slightly different link structure in some of our data feeds. I have a fix now ready, currently waiting on Windows Store approval. -- brion

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android fragmentation visualized
by rupert THURNER 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

some graphics about the fragmentation oft he android market: http://opensignalmaps.com/reports/fragmentation.php

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