Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

Congrats, Android team! iOS how is the new release going? I assume silence is good... On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Michael Holloway wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to invite you to check out the newest version of Wikipedia Beta, > which will be available shortly on Google Play. > > Changes in

[WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

Hello, I'd like to invite you to check out the newest version of Wikipedia Beta, which will be available shortly on Google Play. Changes in the latest version include: * Add Link Preview dialog for some users * Handle image map links in-app * Make sure Share A Fact button works on all devices * F

[WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

Dear Android app friends, Around an hour ago I pushed out a new release for the beta app, so it should be available fairly soon. Unless there are major issues/blockers discovered, we're going to push this code base to production next week. Changes for 2.0-beta-2015-04-23 include: * Detect network

[WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

Dear Android app friends, Around an hour ago I pushed out a new release for the beta app, so it should be available fairly soon. Changes for beta / 2015-04-10 [1] include: * Show local page titles in language list entries of 'Read in other languages' * ShareAFact: correctly align WP wordmark

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

On 3 April 2015 at 17:15, Bernd Sitzmann wrote: > * Reduce size of face detection image > This is a big understatement. :-) Lead images (and all other images) are loaded asynchronously from the article text, so you can get reading while the app requests the images. Most people won't really no

[WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

Just pushed out a new release for the beta app, which should be available soon. beta / 2015-04-03 (versionCode 99... Luftballons) == Page load performance: * Reuse the same WebView for article navigation. -> No animations between page transitions anymore. * Reduce size of face

[WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

The next episode in this season of "Android Wikipedia beta app releases"[1] has been produced and published. Right after a short wait[2] you can enjoy a new feature right on your Android device screen: - New beta feature: Share a quick fact from a Wikipedia page as an image card on Twitter or othe

[WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

Hi all, A new apk for the beta app[1] was just published to Google Play, which should be available within a couple of hours. Here's what's new: beta/2.0-beta-2015-02-27: - 2 widgets for search and feature page (this time hopefully ;) ) - Improve moving of infoboxes to end of first paragraph - Don

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

> > We'll roll it out with notices in the relevant bits of the store listing > and see what the uptake is. > Makes sense to me! ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

On Tuesday, February 24, 2015, Adam Baso wrote: > To give the widgets a better chance of discovery for new downloaders and > people who don't have auto-updates turned on, could the Description and, > for the release introducing the widget, the What's New metadata fields > reference the widgets? >

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

To give the widgets a better chance of discovery for new downloaders and people who don't have auto-updates turned on, could the Description and, for the release introducing the widget, the What's New metadata fields reference the widgets? I was thinking it might be interesting to silently have the

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

What's the relative difficulty of that? This would capture even more users. --tomasz On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Dmitry Brant wrote: > Yeah, the problem with widgets is that they're not very discoverable. A > more worthwhile effort might be to integrate better with Google Now, so that > ou

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

Yeah, the problem with widgets is that they're not very discoverable. A more worthwhile effort might be to integrate better with Google Now, so that our content would be exposed whenever the user performs any kind of search from the device. On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Dan Garry wrote: >

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

On 19 February 2015 at 14:15, Tomasz Finc wrote: > > How difficult would it be to allow the feature article widget to be > resizable so that we can showcase a snippet of text and an image? > I'm glad you like the widgets! Before investing any more resources into widgets, we'll need to see how mu

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Bernd Sitzmann wrote: > * Two widgets added: search + today's featured article Correction. The widgets are not included in the beta app yet. We are going to include them as part of the next beta release. Bernd ___ Mob

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

Hi Tomasz, I don't think it would be very difficult since we already have most of the data we need. Resizable widgets are possible for Android 3.1+. We would need to add some responsiveness to the design. Could be a fun little volunteer time project. Bernd On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Tomasz

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Bernd Sitzmann wrote: > * Two widgets added: search + today's featured article Nice job team. How difficult would it be to allow the feature article widget to be resizable so that we can showcase a snippet of text and an image? --tomasz

[WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

Hi all, A new apk for the beta app[1] was just published to Google Play, which should be available in a couple of hours. Here's what's new: beta/2.0-beta-2015-02-19: * Bring back search suggestions * Two widgets added: search + today's featured article * Translucent toolbar * Lead image/gallery:

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia Beta app release

First of all, a big shout out to Daniel from the Wikidata team for adding the new pageterms API we can use for getting Wikidata descriptions directly from the local MediaWiki site. Before that, we had to talk to wikidata.org directly. Now we don't have to,

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia Beta app release

Nice job team. I'm excited to see WikiData show up more and and the read more sections. How are we sourcing those? --tomasz On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Bernd Sitzmann wrote: > Dear Android app users, > > A few minutes ago a new beta release got published, which should be > available throug

[WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia Beta app release

Dear Android app users, A few minutes ago a new beta release got published, which should be available through the store in a couple of hours. It's been a while since we last published a new beta so the list of changes is fairly long and exciting: * Material design icons and 5.0 toolbar/support *

[WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia Beta app release

Dear Android app users, I just published a new beta release, which should be available through the store in a couple of hours. Here are the changes: * Search improvements: ** Tab for full text search ("Within articles") ** Full text search results have descriptions from wikidata.org if available