Greetings All,
After a furiously paced week I'm happy to release RC2 of the Wikipedia Android application. Brion and Yuvi did a lot of stability cleanup, caching fixes, and in general magician work to get this closer to market release. Note that we've also changed 'bookmarks' to 'saved pages'. Were pushing fast to get this ready to launch by January 13th.
For those that just want to get going
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/WikipediaMobile-RC2.apk (MD5 451c64247ce7ef7bfdab9cc7056e8741)
You can also find it attached to this email.
As before we need you to test this extensively and file bugs under https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia%20Mobile.
Key points to test (mostly same as before)
* Browse as you would normally do on WIFI, 2G, 3G, & no connectivity * Save an article that your on and then load it as a saved page. Delete that saved page. ** Go into airplane mode and load the saved article. Follow a link <== new * Open your browsing history and load a previous page * Tap 'near me' and browse articles. Move the map and tap 'redo search in this area' * Share a link with someone on twitter or facebook * Changing your language preference in the Settings menu * Use a phone that is in a non US local to test other languages like Hebrew, Japanese, Arabic, etc * .. and whatever else you may want try out
Items fixed or updated since RC1
* Updated Wikipedia App icon * Remove 'example checkbox' from settings dialog before release * Android back button troubles (history vs bookmarks?) * Text in search box remains as you typed it even if you select another search suggestion or move on to another page * Add inter-wiki language links * Flash of Unstyled Content when loading bookmarks in Android App * Android bookmarks list should show most recent at top * Links from bookmarked page sometimes open in full screen * Wikipedia Android app uses internal path when sharing offline links * Wikipedia Android app saves wrong article when on 'San Francisco' * Offline page is now styled
Known issues
* Search box doesn't always highlight * Saving pages can be slow
Feedback page is still here @ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/WikipediaMobileAndroidFeedbac... (edit away)
As before there are bound to be bugs but don't think that someone will file them for you. If you don't file it then chances are that we wont know its an issue. If your not sure of wether its a bug or not then come join us on #wikimedia-mobile (freenode) and we'll sort it out.
thanks!
--tomasz
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
After a furiously paced week I'm happy to release RC2 of the Wikipedia Android application. Brion and Yuvi did a lot of stability cleanup, caching fixes, and in general magician work to get this closer to market release. Note that we've also changed 'bookmarks' to 'saved pages'. Were pushing fast to get this ready to launch by January 13th.
Testing in Android 2.3.3 on Droid Pro. Really, really nice. Pages load fast and generally without issues. Saving pages is easy and seems to work fine.
Issues: * Haven't been able to get "Nearby" to work; it just shows me a gray background with placemarks and Google logo on it (map tiles don't load). * Still some viewport issues where templates or other page content might cause the page to scroll horizontally. I know this is a long tail of issues, many of which have to be fixed in templates, site CSS, etc.
Cheers, Erik
- Haven't been able to get "Nearby" to work; it just shows me a gray
background with placemarks and Google logo on it (map tiles don't load).
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32978
I just need to get our account in place
- Still some viewport issues where templates or other page content
might cause the page to scroll horizontally. I know this is a long tail of issues, many of which have to be fixed in templates, site CSS,
Agreed. It'll be a long road but were thinking about these.
--tomasz
Great improvements on the latest release. I'm seeing a few issues (formatting, etc.) like everyone else but if I see something that's not reported in bugzilla I'll go ahead and add it. Nice work!
Kul
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Haven't been able to get "Nearby" to work; it just shows me a gray
background with placemarks and Google logo on it (map tiles don't load).
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32978
I just need to get our account in place
- Still some viewport issues where templates or other page content
might cause the page to scroll horizontally. I know this is a long tail of issues, many of which have to be fixed in templates, site CSS,
Agreed. It'll be a long road but were thinking about these.
--tomasz
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Kul Wadhwa kwadhwa@wikimedia.org wrote:
Great improvements on the latest release. I'm seeing a few issues (formatting, etc.) like everyone else but if I see something that's not reported in bugzilla I'll go ahead and add it. Nice work!
So for anyone who sees a formatting issue we need you to do two things. Load the article both in the Android app AND in a stock android mobile browser. Then let us know. This will let us isolate wether its the Android app, MobileFrontend, or a content issue.
--tomasz
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Haven't been able to get "Nearby" to work; it just shows me a gray
background with placemarks and Google logo on it (map tiles don't load).
I am also getting this issue on Android 2.3.4
Other than that, seems like you smashed most of the other bugs I saw. :) As for tweaks/requests...
* It would be nice if the indicator that a page is loading was more prominent. After clicking on links or hitting back, I didn't always know whether the app was hanging or just loading slowly (I was on BART, mind you) because the indicator is a very light gray color and I don't expect status updates from up in the search box unless that's what I typed/tapped in. * It would be cool to see the main page listed as "Main Page" or "Home" in history, instead of "http://en.m.wikipedia.org/". Though I understand that might make more localization work for you...
Can't wait to see this in the Market!
- Haven't been able to get "Nearby" to work; it just shows me a gray
background with placemarks and Google logo on it (map tiles don't load).
I am also getting this issue on Android 2.3.4
Fixed and I did a one off build which fixes it
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/WikipediaMobile-RC2-3.apk ( 274e77a5566ba749415e3e0a42d100bd )
The Engineering team uses the X-X releases internally to vet new release candidates. Soon we wont need them as our nightly build system is nearing completion!
https://integration.mediawiki.org/ci/job/WikipediaMobile%20-%20Nightly%20bui...
We'll mail out when this is ready.
Other than that, seems like you smashed most of the other bugs I saw. :) As for tweaks/requests...
We've been very busy there :)
- It would be nice if the indicator that a page is loading was more
prominent. After clicking on links or hitting back, I didn't always know whether the app was hanging or just loading slowly (I was on BART, mind you) because the indicator is a very light gray color and I don't expect status updates from up in the search box unless that's what I typed/tapped in.
So the way that the android browser achieves this is two fold.
1) It has the same kind of spinner to identify that work is being done 2) A progress bright yellow/orange progress bar indicating how much work is left
Would that address it ?
- It would be cool to see the main page listed as "Main Page" or "Home" in
history, instead of "http://en.m.wikipedia.org/". Though I understand that might make more localization work for you...
Put in a bug and we'll assess and prioritize. That would certainly look more user friendly but would need more testing. We can look at it for a future version.
Can't wait to see this in the Market!
Us too!
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
- It has the same kind of spinner to identify that work is being done
- A progress bright yellow/orange progress bar indicating how much work
is left
Would that address it ?
Yes, progress bar would be great.