WikiReader | Android app for reading Wikipedia pages distraction-free.
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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How does the wikipedia android app suck? It's open source and the ui is, imo, quite nice.
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.
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
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.
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.
Tabs meaning the chrome-like article selection? I use it all the time, FWIW.
Huh
Isn't the official wikipedia app built with kotlin not a web browser
yep it broke
HEY I WANTED TO POST THIS
Too late GolfNovemberUniform
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.