The Android team[0] is excited to announce a _very_ new Wikipedia Android app beta release, v2.1.131-beta-2015-09-28[1]. This revision contains the following features and fixes[2]:

* Completely reworked Nearby screen! View the locations of nearby Wikipedia articles overlaid onto an *interactive map*. Explore Wikipedia articles near your current location, or pan & zoom the map to explore articles in any other part of the world * Significant improvements to the app appearance including the navigation drawer, status bar, and search results * Fix image sizing on high-resolution devices * Fix possible crashes in saved pages and link previews

This is a milestone release warranting a minor version bump from 2.0 to 2.1: it is the *first maps beta release* as well as the first release to shed support for legacy devices[3]. All forthcoming releases will only be available on Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich MR1) and newer[4].

A special mention worth making is that the Android maps client code was authored by Katie Filbert (aude)[5] back in May[6] and has received a lot of help from many people to get released today. Way to go Katie!

You can help make it better too! Read our getting started guide[7]. 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

http://git.wikimedia.org/commits/apps%2Fandroid%2Fwikipedia/beta%2F2.0.111-b... [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-August/009724.html [4] https://source.android.com/source/build-numbers.html [5] https://twitter.com/filbertkm [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/212922/ [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_hac...