Re: [WikimediaMobile] Hooking into Google Now's Cards

2015-02-02 Thread Prateek Saxena
I am glad that Google has APIs for this now. We can hope that they'll open up the voice commands to third party developers too. Another micro-contribution idea that Yuvi and I had a long time ago can now be easily executed—ask people to location tag articles with names similar to POIs nearby. —pr

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikipedia Lite app?

2015-02-02 Thread Lila Tretikov
sizing == development cost (in man hours) On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Dan Garry wrote: > I've scheduled 30 minutes on Wednesday for myself and the tech leads > (Adam, Dmitry) to scope out a Wikipedia Lite app. > > Dan > > On 2 February 2015 at 13:59, Dan Garry wrote: > >> On 1 February 2015

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikipedia Lite app?

2015-02-02 Thread Dan Garry
I've scheduled 30 minutes on Wednesday for myself and the tech leads (Adam, Dmitry) to scope out a Wikipedia Lite app. Dan On 2 February 2015 at 13:59, Dan Garry wrote: > On 1 February 2015 at 14:48, Toby Negrin wrote: > >> Dan -- can you please limit the scope to sizing the android app? I thi

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikipedia Lite app?

2015-02-02 Thread Dan Garry
On 2 February 2015 at 15:39, Carolynne Schloeder wrote: > Hi, yes app size and yes optimization :-) > > App size does matter > OEM's are sensitive to the size of the app for preload. They were > satisfied with our last version that was under 3MB; we'll find out what > they will tolerate. And we w

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikipedia Lite app?

2015-02-02 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Don't preload apps still get over-the-air updates, often the whole app re-download? On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Carolynne Schloeder < cschloe...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi, yes app size and yes optimization :-) > > App size does matter > OEM's are sensitive to the size of the app for preload

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikipedia Lite app?

2015-02-02 Thread Carolynne Schloeder
Hi, yes app size and yes optimization :-) App size does matter OEM's are sensitive to the size of the app for preload. They were satisfied with our last version that was under 3MB; we'll find out what they will tolerate. And we will likely push appstore promotion as part of our deep dive.[1] Coup

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikipedia Lite app?

2015-02-02 Thread Dan Garry
On 1 February 2015 at 14:48, Toby Negrin wrote: > Dan -- can you please limit the scope to sizing the android app? I think > that's more relevant to reaching people in the developing world. > I think that depends. In a world where we're focussing on preloads, the size of the app is pretty immate

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikipedia Lite app?

2015-02-02 Thread Nuria Ruiz
>Also, can you see what percent of our GS traffic uses 2.3? I think it will be worth it to get this from actual usage of the app. Google will report us downloads, but not activations and it is not infrequent that many users download an app that they do not use at all. Specially if a mobile web ver

Re: [WikimediaMobile] wikimedia - build problems with mediaWiki's android platform - Stack Overflow

2015-02-02 Thread Bernd Sitzmann
Hi, This was a temporary issue, and has been fixed by us restarting the web server. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, you might want to refresh Gradle dependencies: ./gradlew --refresh-dependencies or remove ~/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.mediawiki.api/json/1.3.0 Thanks for