Thanks guys. I feel that it would be nice to have an option to make
animations download and play only when a user clicks them. There could be
an overlay with the words "Click to see animation" so that a user knows
than an image will animate if clicked.
Pine
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Dmitry Brant <dbrant(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
If bandwidth is a concern, you can always turn images
off entirely
(Settings -> Show images).
As for CPU load (viz. battery usage) considerations, we haven't done
*extensive* testing, but at least on the devices I own, the increase is
barely discernible. Of course, part of the reason for releasing this to
Beta is to test the waters with how this feature will behave in the wild,
and what feedback our users will give.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Stephen Niedzielski <
sniedzielski(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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(a)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(a)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/2.1.1…
[3]
https://twitter.com/danjgarry, IRC: Deskana
[4] IRC: MtDu
[5]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_ha…
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