The Android team[0] is excited to announce a _very_ new Wikipedia

Android app beta release, v2.1.131-beta-2015-09-28[1]. This revision

contains the following features and fixes[2]:

* Completely reworked Nearby screen! View the locations of nearby

  Wikipedia articles overlaid onto an interactive map. Explore Wikipedia

  articles near your current location, or pan & zoom the map to explore

  articles in any other part of the world

* Significant improvements to the app appearance including the

  navigation drawer, status bar, and search results

* Fix image sizing on high-resolution devices

* Fix possible crashes in saved pages and link previews

This is a milestone release warranting a minor version bump from 2.0 to

2.1: it is the first maps beta release as well as the first release to

shed support for legacy devices[3]. All forthcoming releases will only

be available on Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich MR1) and newer[4].

A special mention worth making is that the Android maps client code was

authored by Katie Filbert (aude)[5] back in May[6] and has received a

lot of help from many people to get released today. Way to go Katie!

You can help make it better too! Read our getting started guide[7]. 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%2F2.0.111-beta-2015-09-16..beta%2F2.1.131-beta-2015-09-28

[3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-August/009724.html

[4] https://source.android.com/source/build-numbers.html

[5] https://twitter.com/filbertkm

[6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/212922/

[7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_hacking