Good news, everyone! We've just released a new production version of the
Wikipedia Android App to the Google Play Store. Here are some of the major
highlights:
- Nearby: Learn more about what's around you by getting links to articles
about things that are near your current location. (Location services are
used only by this feature)
- Added a one-time Table of Contents tutorial screen.
- Rolled up "page issues" boxes into a link that shows them as a popup
dialog.
- Rolled up disambiguation links into a single link that shows them as a
popup list.
- Frequently-used languages are now kept at the top of the list, for easier
selection.
- Improved page loading speed and data usage by using compression in
network requests.
- Updated language translations.
- Numerous miscellaneous bug fixes.
As always, you can download the app through the Google Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia
...or download the APK directly:
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mobile/android/wikipedia/stable/wikipedia-2.…
Cheers,
Dmitry Brant
Mobile Apps Team (Android)
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering