Just pushed out a new release for the beta app, which should be available soon.
beta / 2015-04-03 (versionCode 99... Luftballons) ==================
Page load performance: * Reuse the same WebView for article navigation. -> No animations between page transitions anymore. * Reduce size of face detection image Design: * ShareAFact: use static image for English WP wordmark * Display local article name in 'Read in other languages' list Bugs: * Fix possible crash when failing to clear shared image folder. * Fix possible crash when highlighting text to share.
Please report any new bugs you encounter.
Enjoy, Bernd
On 3 April 2015 at 17:15, Bernd Sitzmann bernd@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Reduce size of face detection image
This is a big understatement. :-)
Lead images (and all other images) are loaded asynchronously from the article text, so you can get reading while the app requests the images. Most people won't really notice this, but those on slower connections definitely will. Face detection runs on the lead images after it's downloaded, delaying its display, as we didn't want to readjust the image shortly after displaying it due to that being quite jarring. By reducing the size of the image used for face detection, we've also significantly reduced the amount of time it takes for faces to be detected. In some cases, the reduction was around an order of magnitude (500ms to 50ms). See the Phabricator task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94702#1175501 for more information.
So, you should all notice lead images appearing a fair bit faster than they did before! Hooray!
Also, the patch that implemented this https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/185934/ was one of the first by our newest team member, Michael. Nice work, Michael!
Dan