This is really great cross team work between apps and services. Well done team.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Dmitry Brant <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > In the last few weeks, we've been rolling out the ability of our Android app > to connect to the Mobile Content Service[0], built on RESTBase[1], for > retrieving article content, and the rollout is now complete. Over the > course of the next day or so, the app installed on your device should > seamlessly switch over to using MCS instead of the MediaWiki (mobileview) > API.[2] > > While this change won't affect your day-to-day browsing, it does mean that > several additional features that were dependent on the content service will > now become enabled in the app! These include: > > - Definitions of words from Wiktionary. Tap-and-hold any word in an article > to highlight it, then tap the "Define" button to see a popup definition of > the highlighted word. (Note: this is currently enabled only for English > Wikipedia articles) > > - If an article has a recorded audio pronunciation of its title included in > it, the app will display an "audio" button next to the article title. Tap > the button to play back the pronunciation. > > - If an article has geo coordinates associated with it, the app will display > a "pin" button below the article title. Tapping this button will open the > default maps app on your device, and navigate to the coordinates of the > article. > > Many thanks to the Services team for helping us reach this important > milestone, and props to our own Bernd and Michael for their efforts to get > this done. This will enable us to build future service-based features much > more easily, and it's our hope that the content service will be adopted by > many other consumers, not just the Android app. > > > [0] https://rest.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/v1/?doc#/Mobile > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase > [2] This is done within the app itself, and does not require an update from > the Play store. > > Cheers, > > -- > Dmitry Brant > Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android) > Wikimedia Foundation > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
