Re: [Wikitech-l] Phonegap and Wikimedia mobile apps

2011-08-29 Thread Tomasz Finc
Agreed. I'd LOVE to see openZIM support in a Wikipedia app. We need to make sure that our users can still access content even if their disconnected. I personally would love to be able to download a couple of collections in the openZim format and redistribute as needed. It would be really cool to do

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phonegap and Wikimedia mobile apps

2011-08-27 Thread Patrick Reilly
That would be a really nice addition to the official application in the future. We should definitely continue to talk about this and try to figure out the optimal approach. Also, once the PhoneGap based Android application is developed it should be easy to fork and experiment with the various app

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phonegap and Wikimedia mobile apps

2011-08-27 Thread Christian PĆ¼hringer
Hi, It would be really nice if offline (=zim) support was integrated in the official wikipedia app: The user could switch between online access and offline reading. If I understand Tomasz correctly, it is planned to implement the wikipedia app with phonegap, so having zim support for phonega

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phonegap and Wikimedia mobile apps

2011-08-27 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi, is this maybe also useful for ZIM - to make ZIM readers which are working cross-platform? As far as I understood phonegap is mainly a framework to create mobile apps based on HTML 5. At least the display of ZIM contents should be simple then as we just need a HTML widget for that. But what ab

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phonegap and Wikimedia mobile apps

2011-08-26 Thread Tomasz Finc
Thanks for the super detailed write up Brion. I've been actively talking with the PhoneGap guys after doing some more research on this and it seems like a really good fit to have a consistent experience across a whole host of devices. What were looking at is not necessarily a lot of depth in every

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phonegap and Wikimedia mobile apps

2011-08-16 Thread Brion Vibber
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Tomasz Finc wrote: > I've been asking around on IRC but thought it would be good to open up > to a larger audience. > > Has anyone here used PhoneGap (http://www.phonegap.com/) for mobile > app development? I'm eager to get your thoughts and potentially > brainsto

[Wikitech-l] Phonegap and Wikimedia mobile apps

2011-08-16 Thread Tomasz Finc
I've been asking around on IRC but thought it would be good to open up to a larger audience. Has anyone here used PhoneGap (http://www.phonegap.com/) for mobile app development? I'm eager to get your thoughts and potentially brainstorm some new ideas. I'll have a longer mail about this later but