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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[–] Dot@feddit.org 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (12 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.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 weeks ago (4 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 3 weeks ago (3 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

Oh, I guess that explain what I noticed.

Thank you for the link.

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