Hi all,

We're excited to bring you an updated version of the Wikipedia Android app, now available on the Google Play Store! [1]. Here are the highlights from this update (or browse the complete change history):

- New: lazy-loading of images! When browsing articles, images will be loaded only when they are scrolled into view.

- Improvements and fixes for saving and managing offline reading list articles.

- The dark theme can now be enabled from the app settings, as well as from the article overflow menu.

- Improved dark mode color scheme.

- Minor design enhancements throughout.

- Numerous bug fixes.

Special thanks to the volunteer contributors who submitted patches for this release:

- Jorge Casariego, (IRC: Jcasariego, Github: https://github.com/jorgecasariego)

- Yashasvi, (https://about.me/yashasvigirdhar)

- Florian Schmidt, (IRC: FlorianSW, GitHub: https://github.com/FlorianSW)

- Amir Aharoni (IRC: aharoni, Wikipedia User:Amire80)

- Kaartic Sivaraam (GitHub: https://github.com/sivaraam)

If you'd like to help improve the app yourself, take a look at our getting started guide. We're looking forward to your contributions!

[1] For devices without Google Play services, you may download the app directly.

Cheers,

Dmitry Brant
Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android)
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering