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
>>>>>
>>>>
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