Hello!

> 1

Animations are not configurable :( Prior to this release, we supported animations in articles and the new gallery animation support is a natural extension of that.

> 2

Yes! These changes only affect media explicitly downloaded by the user (via tapping the save button in the overflow menu). Bandwidth optimized images are still shown when paging through the gallery.

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Stephen. Questions:

1. Is it possible to disable animations so that the media files consume less bandwidth, CPU, and memory?

2. Does "Media saved in the gallery are now downloaded in their original form  and resolution" refer to media files after a user clicks on them? I can imagine that automatically downloading every media file in a gallery at original size would consume a lot of bandwidth.

Thanks,

Pine

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Stephen Niedzielski <sniedzielski@wikimedia.org> wrote:

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

[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

    https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;beta/2.1.140-beta-2016-02-04

[3] https://twitter.com/danjgarry, IRC: Deskana

[4] IRC: MtDu

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

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