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
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 releasin
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 me
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 au
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 down
