The old PhoneGap app repo lives here on GitHub: https://github.com/wikimedia/WikipediaMobile
(I haven't touched it and can't speak to its current state.) On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I've also floated the idea of cleaning up / replacing the experimental >> Firefox OS app (which is based on our old PhoneGap app code) and using a >> modernized HTML5+JS app for both Firefox OS and Windows 10 Tablet/Mobile. >> Nobody's bitten on the idea yet, but I think it might be better than trying >> to separately spin up resources for multiple minority mobile OSs. > > > Where is such phonegap app? I'm very interested in building a web client and > have already been doing so for the last 2 hackathons > <http://chimeces.com/webkipedia/> (T106275 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106275>) and I'm working on it > thinking mobile first. > > I would be very interested in checking the feature set of the old phonegap > app and when good enough, making an effort to package something like that > web client for firefoxOS & windows phone. > > Thoughts? > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 4:10 AM, Stephen Niedzielski < > sniedziel...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Hey! I believe we update the Wikipedia for Fire OS (Android) app[0] >> whenever a production version has fully rolled out on Play, although we >> don't offer the Beta[2] on Appstore. I can see they're both currently at >> the latest and greatest. I don't have Fire device presently, but if you >> highlight a term for sharing and have Wikipedia installed, you should get >> the option to search with the app. I *thought* there was also some >> additional platform level support for Wikipedia lookups built by Amazon but >> I might be mistaken. >> >> >> --stephen >> >> [0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/dl/android?p=org.wikipedia >> [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia >> [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.beta >> >> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Brion, >>> >>> Ok, thanks. >>> >>> Is the Wikipedia app promoted to Kindle Fire users very much? It would >>> be interesting if highlighting a term in a Kindle book or newspaper would >>> take the user to a Wikipedia or Wiktionary article for definitions and >>> background info. >>> >>> I wonder if Microsoft would be willing to support Wikipedia app >>> development for Windows with Microsoft financing or in-kind contribution of >>> developer time. Any thoughts? >>> >>> Pine >>> On Jul 25, 2015 6:08 PM, "Brion Vibber" <bvib...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Mobilizers, >>>>> >>>>> 1. Do you think it would make sense to develop a Wikipedia app for >>>>> Kindle, or to encourage Amazon to do so or financially sponsor its >>>>> development? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Kindle Fire devices are Android-based and can run the existing Android >>>> Wikipedia app. The bare-bones e-ink Kindle readers are another story >>>> perhaps. :) >>>> >>>> >>>>> 2. Same questions for Windows and Microsoft, especially considering >>>>> the Windows 10 launch. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I did an experimental JavaScript/WinJS-based Windows tablet app back >>>> for the Windows 8 launch, which is still in the Windows Store but needs to >>>> be cleaned up for Windows 10 or perhaps killed and replaced. :) >>>> >>>> Windows 10 will also have a Mobile edition for phones 'and small >>>> tablets'; there's a unified app platform between desktop and mobile on >>>> Windows 10 so it should be possible to adapt the tablet app to run on >>>> phones (or rewrite it entirely to run on both!) >>>> >>>> >>>> There's also been some talk about using the framework Microsoft has put >>>> together for porting Android apps to Windows 10 Mobile, but I don't think >>>> anybody has a good handle on how tricky that will be to use, or the >>>> cost-benefit of working on Windows 10 Mobile in general. >>>> >>>> I've also floated the idea of cleaning up / replacing the experimental >>>> Firefox OS app (which is based on our old PhoneGap app code) and using a >>>> modernized HTML5+JS app for both Firefox OS and Windows 10 Tablet/Mobile. >>>> Nobody's bitten on the idea yet, but I think it might be better than trying >>>> to separately spin up resources for multiple minority mobile OSs. >>>> >>>> -- brion >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mobile-l mailing list >>> Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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