I see the following paragraph in the monthly update:
Wikipedia's Android application has been updated with the ability to access ZIM files, but we are not promoting this feature at the current time. If you have ZIM files on your device, which you can get from Kiwix, you will see the feature in your app.
But I suspect the validity of this. AFAIK, the ability to access[1] ZIM files is only available as an opt-in feature in the alpha version of the app. Further, I don't think the app automatically enables the feature when ZIM files are present in it but it is provided only as an opt-in feature (but automatically enabling it seems to be a nice idea to me).
I'm not sure about this so Cc: mobile-android-wikipedia@wikimedia.org
-- Kaartic
Hi Kaartic,
You are right - thanks for catching this. We had anticipated that the changes would be out by the time the update went up, but should've checked before publishing. And you're right, users will need to turn the feature on in Settings.
I'll change the update right now to reflect reality. Thanks again.
Anne
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 9:29 AM, Kaartic Sivaraam < kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> wrote:
I see the following paragraph in the monthly update:
Wikipedia's Android application has been updated with the ability to access ZIM files, but we are not promoting this feature at the current time. If you have ZIM files on your device, which you can get from Kiwix, you will see the feature in your app.But I suspect the validity of this. AFAIK, the ability to access[1] ZIM files is only available as an opt-in feature in the alpha version of the app. Further, I don't think the app automatically enables the feature when ZIM files are present in it but it is provided only as an opt-in feature (but automatically enabling it seems to be a nice idea to me).
I'm not sure about this so Cc: mobile-android-wikipedia@wikimedia.org
-- Kaartic
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Also, I should add that we won't be able to have the feature turned on by default because it requires the user to approve memory permissions for read/write, and it's a poor user experience for folks who wouldn't need that feature to have to go through the permissions screen.
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 10:08 AM, Anne Gomez agomez@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Kaartic,
You are right - thanks for catching this. We had anticipated that the changes would be out by the time the update went up, but should've checked before publishing. And you're right, users will need to turn the feature on in Settings.
I'll change the update right now to reflect reality. Thanks again.
Anne
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 9:29 AM, Kaartic Sivaraam < kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> wrote:
I see the following paragraph in the monthly update:
Wikipedia's Android application has been updated with the ability to access ZIM files, but we are not promoting this feature at the current time. If you have ZIM files on your device, which you can get from Kiwix, you will see the feature in your app.But I suspect the validity of this. AFAIK, the ability to access[1] ZIM files is only available as an opt-in feature in the alpha version of the app. Further, I don't think the app automatically enables the feature when ZIM files are present in it but it is provided only as an opt-in feature (but automatically enabling it seems to be a nice idea to me).
I'm not sure about this so Cc: mobile-android-wikipedia@wikimedia.org
-- Kaartic
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