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(a)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(a)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(a)wikimedia.org
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