Keep at it, mobile apps. Looking good!

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Toby Negrin <tnegrin@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Congrats iOS folks -- a good day for apps indeed!

-Toby

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Joshua Minor <jminor@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello mobile wikimedians,

Big day for Wikipedia apps. First, big congrats to the Android team on today's awesome update!

On iOS, after a long beta testing period[1], focusing on improving performance and reducing crashes and instability, we've released the 5.0.5 version of Wikipedia to the App Store.

We expect users will see:
- less hangs or failures to load on the Explore feed
- full AuthManager support and stable account log in and creation
- use less device resources, espeically when backgrounded and in our backups
- most importantly, less crashes!!

We also fixed over a two dozen other bugs and usability issues, large and small.

Thanks to our volunteers (particularly thanks to huayu0723, bart-kneepkens and gregggreg2 for their code contributions, and josve05a for his invaluable help with OTRS and testing). I also want to thank our beta testers, who put in extra effort on this version to help us find and diagnose stability issues.

Thanks,
Josh

[1] - You can read about the changes we made and the reason behind the long beta in previous announce post here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2016-June/010254.html

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