Hey! I believe we update the Wikipedia for Fire
OS (Android) app[0]
whenever a production version has fully rolled out on Play, although we
don't offer the Beta[2] on Appstore. I can see they're both currently at
the latest and greatest. I don't have Fire device presently, but if you
highlight a term for sharing and have Wikipedia installed, you should get
the option to search with the app. I *thought* there was also some
additional platform level support for Wikipedia lookups built by Amazon but
I might be mistaken.
--stephen
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On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Brion,
Ok, thanks.
Is the Wikipedia app promoted to Kindle Fire users very much? It would
be interesting if highlighting a term in a Kindle book or newspaper would
take the user to a Wikipedia or Wiktionary article for definitions and
background info.
I wonder if Microsoft would be willing to support Wikipedia app
development for Windows with Microsoft financing or in-kind contribution of
developer time. Any thoughts?
Pine
On Jul 25, 2015 6:08 PM, "Brion Vibber" <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Pine W
<wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mobilizers,
>
> 1. Do you think it would make sense to develop a Wikipedia app for
> Kindle, or to encourage Amazon to do so or financially sponsor its
> development?
>
Kindle Fire devices are Android-based and can run the existing Android
Wikipedia app. The bare-bones e-ink Kindle readers are another story
perhaps. :)
> 2. Same questions for Windows and Microsoft, especially considering
> the Windows 10 launch.
>
I did an experimental JavaScript/WinJS-based Windows tablet app back
for the Windows 8 launch, which is still in the Windows Store but needs to
be cleaned up for Windows 10 or perhaps killed and replaced. :)
Windows 10 will also have a Mobile edition for phones 'and small
tablets'; there's a unified app platform between desktop and mobile on
Windows 10 so it should be possible to adapt the tablet app to run on
phones (or rewrite it entirely to run on both!)
There's also been some talk about using the framework Microsoft has put
together for porting Android apps to Windows 10 Mobile, but I don't think
anybody has a good handle on how tricky that will be to use, or the
cost-benefit of working on Windows 10 Mobile in general.
I've also floated the idea of cleaning up / replacing the experimental
Firefox OS app (which is based on our old PhoneGap app code) and using a
modernized HTML5+JS app for both Firefox OS and Windows 10 Tablet/Mobile.
Nobody's bitten on the idea yet, but I think it might be better than trying
to separately spin up resources for multiple minority mobile OSs.
-- brion
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