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WikiReader | Android app for reading Wikipedia pages distraction-free. (apt.izzysoft.de)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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GitHub Repo.

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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (4 children)

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

I don't even know who use the tabs future 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Huh

[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Oh, I guess that explain what I noticed.

Thank you for the link.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

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