[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia mobile apps (was: Please be considerate of everyone's time.)

As Sage notes, the functionality of the new apps is about the same on both Android and iOS, with some differences in the UI. Like the beta Android version, we're using a sidebar ToC instead of collapsing sections (though it's a bit fancier looking on iOS right now!) and we've added basic login and editing ability. Note that in both OSs we do not yet have any talk page or notification support -- this should be coming a couple months down the line as we continue to tune up the editor-facing features. We hope to iterate fairly quickly once we've got the first new version out! Unfortunately due to Apple's store policies we can't have an open public "beta" version of the app easily installable like we do on Android. We're currently doing "in-house" betas with Apple's Enterprise Distribution program combined with the TestFlight beta distribution service; when they release upcoming improvements to TestFlight we'll be able to distribute betas much more publicly but this may not arrive until iOS 8 as well. Regarding iOS 8 features -- they are very much on our minds, but we can't actually use them yet so we're working on polishing up the iOS 6/7-compatible release. :) Aside from various nice internals updates in the OS, one of the main user-facing improvements is better app-to-app integration based on extension points. This would allow us to make Commons available as a "share" destination for photos directly from other apps as we do on Android, and other potential things. -- brion On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote: