Hey everyone,
The iOS team has released an update to the iOS app, which is now version
4.1.7. This update is a relatively minor one, mostly crash fixes and
localization updates.
As always, we'd love to hear what you think—especially if you think
something's broken!
Regards,
WMF iOS team
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TLDR: Performance audit of the mobile site, please help & chime in
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105365#1477762
Hi,
The Reading web team is focusing on performance of the site in one of
our quarterly
goal <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104432>s, specially the mobile
version to improve the experience of all our users on the least powerful
devices.
As part of such goal we've (Baha & Jon) conducted an initial performance
audit of the mobile site, where we've discovered a few interesting facts,
mostly regarding how images are loading and how they are not cached.
We encourage you to read up the phab task
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105365#1477762 and if it is of your
interest try and help us understand the highest impact areas where we'll be
able to improve the performance of the site, and technical problems you can
foresee in performance profiles of it.
Thanks a lot,
Joaquin
Hi
Last June, the Kiwix team has organised a hackathon focused on mobile
technologies in general and Android in particular.
http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Hackathon_Mobile_2015
Sponsored by Wikimedia Switzerland, this one week long event has been
the occasion to do a few steps forward thx to the hard work of the 4
volunteer developers.
As a result, we are proud to announce the release of Kiwix for Android
1.94/1.95 which brings a lot of improvements. Among others:
* NEW: Revamped tabs system
* NEW: Revamped zoom system
* NEW: Audio/Video suport
* NEW: Updated "Ray Charles" ZIM demo file
* FIXED: AutoCompleteTextView in landscape mode
* FIXED: PDF & EPUB viewing
* FIXED: Many bugs related to "night mode"
* REMOVED: Gingerbread support
* REMOVED: Share with friends
* REMOVED: Zoom button
Install in one click on your device:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile
We have also created a new set of tools allowing us to generate and
publish quickly Android Bundle Apps (app+content). These apps are really
useful for users because in one click in the Google Play Store they have
what they want. We have started to use these tools and have already
released two high value apps:
* Wikivoyage in English:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoya…
* Wikimed in English:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikimed
An other consequence of this bundling software solution is that it is
now trivial for NGO & Companies to distribute devices with free content
pre-packaged on it.
Regards
Emmanuel
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