Hi all,
A new apk for the beta app[1] was just published to Google Play, which should be available in a couple of hours.
Here's what's new: beta/2.0-beta-2015-02-19: * Bring back search suggestions * Two widgets added: search + today's featured article * Translucent toolbar * Lead image/gallery: ** white background if image has transparency ** crop off more of the bottom of images * Styling tweaks: infobox color/shadow, disambig link padding * Avoid NPE crash from onPrepareOptionsMenu
Android guidelines: * Updated app icon to be more material * Make nav drawer overlap over search bar * Ripple effect when highlighting navigation items * Nearby: secondary action instead of long-click to view on a map * Don't keep History, Saved Pages, or Nearby fragment in the backstack
Please report any issues you find. Thank you!
Enjoy! Bernd
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Bernd Sitzmann bernd@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Two widgets added: search + today's featured article
Nice job team.
How difficult would it be to allow the feature article widget to be resizable so that we can showcase a snippet of text and an image?
--tomasz
Hi Tomasz,
I don't think it would be very difficult since we already have most of the data we need. Resizable widgets are possible for Android 3.1+. We would need to add some responsiveness to the design. Could be a fun little volunteer time project.
Bernd
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Bernd Sitzmann bernd@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Two widgets added: search + today's featured article
Nice job team.
How difficult would it be to allow the feature article widget to be resizable so that we can showcase a snippet of text and an image?
--tomasz
On 19 February 2015 at 14:15, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
How difficult would it be to allow the feature article widget to be resizable so that we can showcase a snippet of text and an image?
I'm glad you like the widgets!
Before investing any more resources into widgets, we'll need to see how much they're used relative to our other features. We suspect that they will not be used much, but chose to prioritise getting them out because Dmitry already had a proof of concept patch ready which just needed some minor design polishing.
Dan
Yeah, the problem with widgets is that they're not very discoverable. A more worthwhile effort might be to integrate better with Google Now, so that our content would be exposed whenever the user performs any kind of search from the device.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 19 February 2015 at 14:15, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
How difficult would it be to allow the feature article widget to be resizable so that we can showcase a snippet of text and an image?
I'm glad you like the widgets!
Before investing any more resources into widgets, we'll need to see how much they're used relative to our other features. We suspect that they will not be used much, but chose to prioritise getting them out because Dmitry already had a proof of concept patch ready which just needed some minor design polishing.
Dan
-- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation
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What's the relative difficulty of that? This would capture even more users.
--tomasz
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Dmitry Brant dbrant@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yeah, the problem with widgets is that they're not very discoverable. A more worthwhile effort might be to integrate better with Google Now, so that our content would be exposed whenever the user performs any kind of search from the device.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 19 February 2015 at 14:15, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
How difficult would it be to allow the feature article widget to be resizable so that we can showcase a snippet of text and an image?
I'm glad you like the widgets!
Before investing any more resources into widgets, we'll need to see how much they're used relative to our other features. We suspect that they will not be used much, but chose to prioritise getting them out because Dmitry already had a proof of concept patch ready which just needed some minor design polishing.
Dan
-- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
To give the widgets a better chance of discovery for new downloaders and people who don't have auto-updates turned on, could the Description and, for the release introducing the widget, the What's New metadata fields reference the widgets? I was thinking it might be interesting to silently have them in place to see what the uptake is, and then follow that with explicitly calling them out later to see what the impact might be.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Dmitry Brant dbrant@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yeah, the problem with widgets is that they're not very discoverable. A more worthwhile effort might be to integrate better with Google Now, so that our content would be exposed whenever the user performs any kind of search from the device.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 19 February 2015 at 14:15, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
How difficult would it be to allow the feature article widget to be resizable so that we can showcase a snippet of text and an image?
I'm glad you like the widgets!
Before investing any more resources into widgets, we'll need to see how much they're used relative to our other features. We suspect that they will not be used much, but chose to prioritise getting them out because Dmitry already had a proof of concept patch ready which just needed some minor design polishing.
Dan
-- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
On Tuesday, February 24, 2015, Adam Baso abaso@wikimedia.org wrote:
To give the widgets a better chance of discovery for new downloaders and people who don't have auto-updates turned on, could the Description and, for the release introducing the widget, the What's New metadata fields reference the widgets?
Absolutely.
I was thinking it might be interesting to silently have them in place to
see what the uptake is, and then follow that with explicitly calling them out later to see what the impact might be.
The scientist in me finds this experiment interesting, but the product manager in me would rather have our users informed and using the stuff we make... and the product manager bit wins. ;-)
We'll roll it out with notices in the relevant bits of the store listing and see what the uptake is.
Dan
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Bernd Sitzmann bernd@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Two widgets added: search + today's featured article
Correction. The widgets are not included in the beta app yet. We are going to include them as part of the next beta release.
Bernd