The Android team[0] is happy to announce a new Wikipedia Android app beta release, v2.1.132-beta-2015-10-23[1]. In precisely 500 characters, this revision contains the following features and fixes[2]:
* More consistent article language and simpler app language selection dialog. * Fixed occasional abnormal CPU usage * Many UI enhancements and tweaks. * Improved crash reporting. * Better link preview UI and extract. * Add preference to enable/disable link previews. * Use higher resolution icons when possible. * Display system notification after saving an image. * Fix page thumbnail caching. * Fix possible crash when sharing highlighted text. * Fix possible crash when returning to Nearby screen.
This release saw volunteer contributions from Daniel Rey[3] and Wikinaut[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
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team#Android_App [1] Rolling out at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.beta [2] A complete list of changes is available at
http://git.wikimedia.org/commits/apps%2Fandroid%2Fwikipedia/beta%2F2.1.131-b... [3] https://twitter.com/DanReyLop [4] https://twitter.com/Wikinaut, WikiMail [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_hac...