Awesome! Haven't had a reason to fire up my Android environment recently.
I'll give it a shot.

-Chad
On Oct 6, 2011 9:26 PM, "Tomasz Finc" <[email protected]> wrote:
> One good question that Brion just asked me was when we plan to release
> this app to the Android market.
>
> We'd like to get the baseline app in the android market two weeks from
> now. To track what we need to fix check out our tracker bug
>
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31447
>
> We need your help to make it happen.
>
> --tomasz
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Tomasz Finc <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Greetings All,
>>
>> Over the last couple of weeks a group of devs from Nitobi have been
>> putting together an Android Wikipedia App for us. They've been using
>> the PhoneGap framework to build the app and now it mostly has the same
>> features as our iOS app. I think it's finally gotten to a good state
>> for people to start hacking on it.
>>
>> For those just wanting to get started here are the links
>>
>> code: https://github.com/nitobi/Wikipedia
>> bugs: http://bit.ly/q1B9Bj
>> feature ideas:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/App_Features_&_Roadmap#Features_committed
>>
>> Right now the code is sitting in github but the plan is to move it
>> into our own git repo, alongside MediaWiki.
>>
>> How can you help?
>>
>> * Fork the code and help us with open bug requests
>> * Critique the code and suggest cleanup
>> * Port the app to iOS, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows, WebOS, & Bada —
>> first get it running, then customize to each platform's look and feel
>> * Start to hack on new features like image uploads, starting a new
>> article, offline article saving, openZIM support, etc ...
>> * Localization for the user interface
>> * ... and whatever else you can come up with
>>
>> Don't worry if you don't know Objective C, Java, etc .. All you need
>> to know is HTML5, CSS3, and JS. It's really simple to write these
>> apps.
>>
>> Lots of pretty screen shots and a user flow diagram here :
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/WikipediaAndroidApp
>>
>> Come join us on #wikimedia-mobile and let us know how it goes.
>>
>> --tomasz
>>
>
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