General comment:
I uninstalled the Wikipedia Android app awhile ago, as I was using it
little and didn't find that it added much value to tasks that are useful to
me. A few days ago, shortly before this update, I installed the app again
and was pleasantly surprised by how much development had taken place in the
meantime. The app now seems to be much more media-intensive and colorful
than mobile web. I'm not sure how much I'll use the app, but I can tell
there's been a lot of work invested in it, and the UX is more strongly
differentiated from the mobile web interface.
If I knew less about English vocabulary, I think that one of my favorite
features in the Android app would be the ease of obtaining definitions from
Wiktionary.
Overall, I'm impressed. Thanks for the good work.
Pine
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Dmitry Brant <dbrant(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all,
We're excited to bring you an updated version of the Wikipedia Android app
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en>,
rolling out now to the Google Play Store! [1]. Here are the highlights
from this update (or browse the complete change history
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;r/2.5.190-r-2017-02-24>
):
- Contribute to Wikipedia by editing title descriptions for articles that
you browse! (Powered by Wikidata, and currently limited to Russian, Hebrew,
and Catalan Wikipedia. More languages will follow, once we analyze
engagement data with this initial group of communities. If you're
interested, here is the original project outline
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Short_descriptions>, and
the rollout announcement
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_description_editing_in_the_Wikipedia_Android_app>
)
- Support for two-factor authentication when logging in.
- Improved multi-window support for Samsung devices and for Android Nougat.
- Improved network performance and offline support for cached page
previews.
- Minor UI refinements to image gallery, link previews, and reading lists.
- Changing the wiki language now also changes the app UI language.
- Numerous bug and crash fixes.
Special thanks to the volunteer contributors who submitted patches for
this release:
The Discoverer - [[mw:User:The Discoverer]]
Dinu Kumarasiri - IRC: sandaru,
https://github.com/sandarumk
Odysseas Kristalakos -
https://github.com/OdysseasKr
Kunal Grover -
https://github.com/kunalgrover05
If you'd like to help improve the app yourself, take a look at our getting
started
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_hacking>
guide.
We're looking forward to your contributions!
[1] For devices without Google Play services, you may download
<https://releases.wikimedia.org/mobile/android/wikipedia/stable/wikipedia-2.5.190-releasesprod-2017-02-24.apk>
the
app directly.
--
Dmitry Brant
Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android)
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering
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