Thanks guys. I feel that it would be nice to have an option to make animations download and play only when a user clicks them. There could be an overlay with the words "Click to see animation" so that a user knows than an image will animate if clicked.
Pine On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Dmitry Brant <[email protected]> wrote: > If bandwidth is a concern, you can always turn images off entirely > (Settings -> Show images). > > As for CPU load (viz. battery usage) considerations, we haven't done > *extensive* testing, but at least on the devices I own, the increase is > barely discernible. Of course, part of the reason for releasing this to > Beta is to test the waters with how this feature will behave in the wild, > and what feedback our users will give. > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Stephen Niedzielski < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> > 1 >> Animations are not configurable :( Prior to this release, we supported >> animations in articles and the new gallery animation support is a natural >> extension of that. >> >> > 2 >> Yes! These changes only affect media explicitly downloaded by the user >> (via tapping the save button in the overflow menu). Bandwidth optimized >> images are still shown when paging through the gallery. >> >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thanks Stephen. Questions: >>> >>> 1. Is it possible to disable animations so that the media files consume >>> less bandwidth, CPU, and memory? >>> 2. Does "Media saved in the gallery are now downloaded in their original >>> form and resolution" refer to media files after a user clicks on them? I >>> can imagine that automatically downloading every media file in a gallery at >>> original size would consume a lot of bandwidth. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Pine >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Stephen Niedzielski < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> The Android team[0] is pleased to announce a new Wikipedia Android app >>>> beta release, v2.1.140-beta-2016-02-04[1]. This revision contains the >>>> following new functionality[2]: >>>> >>>> - Support for animated images throughout the app (gallery, search, >>>> history, etc). >>>> - Media saved in the gallery are now downloaded in their original form >>>> and resolution. >>>> - Improved app memory consumption. >>>> - Resize wide images to fit without scrolling. >>>> - Fix transparent image canvases in galleries. >>>> - Fix copying large amounts of text to clipboard. >>>> - Fix account creation without an email address. >>>> - Bug fix to keep the toolbar hidden when scrolling down quickly. >>>> >>>> Included in this version are patches from repeat contributor Dan >>>> Garry[3] and first time contributor, Justin Du[4]. Great work, devs! >>>> >>>> You too can help make it better! Read our getting started guide[5]. We >>>> can't wait for your contributions! >>>> >>>> >>>> -The WMF Android team >>>> >>>> [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team#Android_App >>>> [1] Rolling out at >>>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.beta >>>> [2] A complete list of changes is available at >>>> >>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;beta/2.1.140-beta-2016-02-04 >>>> [3] https://twitter.com/danjgarry, IRC: Deskana >>>> [4] IRC: MtDu >>>> [5] >>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_hacking >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mobile-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mobile-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> >> > > > -- > Dmitry Brant > Mobile Apps Team (Android) > Wikimedia Foundation > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering > >
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