The app is very rough and only have search functionality and might need months to get to great point, but I am super relived to see someone working on a true third party native client.

I wanted to share it with the community here, because the wikipedia app for android sucks on so many levels.

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[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How does the wikipedia android app suck? It's open source and the ui is, imo, quite nice.

[–] Dot@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

It's a non native app + the navigation is counterproductive.

I don't even know who use the tabs feature in the app, it's like the people who developed it do not use it in real life.

In my opinion, the application does not follow the modern design of Android apps in general.

I can't put in words, the frustration I felt using the official app and the countless times I searched for third party apps for Wiki.

Before finding out about WikiReader, I would be using the browser to see Wikipedia instead of using the app.

Now I have a more comfy way to use Wikipedia.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Isn't the official wikipedia app built with kotlin not a web browser

[–] Dot@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Try to disable android system webview and open the app.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yep it broke

[–] Dot@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

So there you go, it's not a native app.

[–] Unmapped@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

Interesting. I'm really surprised by this. I really like the wiki app. And use the tabs a lot. Never would have expected someone to dislike it so much. Designing mobile apps must be a incredibly hard job.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i disagree on some of the points, but theyre all fair.

But it shows up in fdroid for me, so im not sure why you say it isnt

[–] Dot@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh, I guess they fixed their releases on F-Droid.

They used to have very old version on the F-Droid repo that they stopped updating years ago, the last time I checked it on F-Droid.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There was a few months where Wikipedia was reverted to a very old version as newer versions didn't meet their build standards. That has since been fixed.

[–] Dot@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago

Oh, I guess that explain what I noticed.

Thank you for the link.

[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

I get at least an update every two weeks or so... and it worked for at least the last four years, since I installed it from f-droid.

[–] prograhammingdev@lemmy.prograhamming.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Tabs meaning the chrome-like article selection? I use it all the time, FWIW.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Huh

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

HEY I WANTED TO POST THIS

[–] Dot@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

;)

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Too late GolfNovemberUniform

[–] Imhotep@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It is indeed very rough for now, but good to see another app

Even if it gets better it would need a good multi language (multi-lingual?) support for me to switch, which the official app did a stellar job with.