The app is very rough and only have search functionality and might need months to get to great point, but I am super relived to see someone working on a true third party native client.
I wanted to share it with the community here, because the wikipedia app for android sucks on so many levels.
How does the wikipedia android app suck? It’s open source and the ui is, imo, quite nice.
It’s a non native app + the navigation is counterproductive.
I don’t even know who use the tabs feature in the app, it’s like the people who developed it do not use it in real life.
In my opinion, the application does not follow the modern design of Android apps in general.
I can’t put in words, the frustration I felt using the official app and the countless times I searched for third party apps for Wiki.
Before finding out about WikiReader, I would be using the browser to see Wikipedia instead of using the app.
Now I have a more comfy way to use Wikipedia.
Interesting. I’m really surprised by this. I really like the wiki app. And use the tabs a lot. Never would have expected someone to dislike it so much. Designing mobile apps must be a incredibly hard job.
i disagree on some of the points, but theyre all fair.
But it shows up in fdroid for me, so im not sure why you say it isnt
Oh, I guess they fixed their releases on F-Droid.
They used to have very old version on the F-Droid repo that they stopped updating years ago, the last time I checked it on F-Droid.
There was a few months where Wikipedia was reverted to a very old version as newer versions didn’t meet their build standards. That has since been fixed.
Oh, I guess that explain what I noticed.
Thank you for the link.
I get at least an update every two weeks or so… and it worked for at least the last four years, since I installed it from f-droid.
Tabs meaning the chrome-like article selection? I use it all the time, FWIW.
Huh
Isn’t the official wikipedia app built with kotlin not a web browser
Try to disable android system webview and open the app.
yep it broke
So there you go, it’s not a native app.
it’s not available in F-Droid
Uhh, that’s very much so incorrect. You don’t even need Izzy to get it, it’s available in the vanilla F-Droid repo: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.wikipedia/
HEY I WANTED TO POST THIS
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Too late GolfNovemberUniform
It is indeed very rough for now, but good to see another app
Even if it gets better it would need a good multi language (multi-lingual?) support for me to switch, which the official app did a stellar job with.
