The Android team[0] is pleased to announce a new Wikipedia Android app

beta release, v2.1.140-beta-2016-02-04[1]. This revision contains the

following new functionality[2]:

- Support for animated images throughout the app (gallery, search,

history, etc).

- Media saved in the gallery are now downloaded in their original form

and resolution.

- Improved app memory consumption.

- Resize wide images to fit without scrolling.

- Fix transparent image canvases in galleries.

- Fix copying large amounts of text to clipboard.

- Fix account creation without an email address.

- Bug fix to keep the toolbar hidden when scrolling down quickly.

Included in this version are patches from repeat contributor Dan

Garry[3] and first time contributor, Justin Du[4]. Great work, devs!

You too can help make it better! Read our getting started guide[5]. We

can't wait for your contributions!

-The WMF Android team

[1] Rolling out at

[2] A complete list of changes is available at

[4] IRC: MtDu