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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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