Is the firefox os wikipedia app that's currently out there based on the old phonegap app?
https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/wikipedia/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/apps/firefox/wikipedia On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Michael Holloway <mhollo...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > -- Stephane Bisson Wikimedia Foundation 1 416 270 3830
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