+ The desktop app is a major release. It resolves several wiktionary errors on non-English pages and has better HTML dump generation for other wikis. +
++ The Android app is a major release. It has a more responsive search, instant image loading when reloading page, and a fix for pages failing to load if they have spaces and colons in the title. +
++ There were several dozen pages with script errors in English Wiktionary. They basically fell into these categories: +
++ The build log for English Wiktionary looks a lot cleaner now, though I still have to add some support for the {{categorytree}} function. +
++ I ran the HTML dump generator through all the English wikis, as well as French Wikipedia. The results looked good, but there were a lot of log errors that were addressed with this release. +
++ Search is still slow on Android. I'll fix this in a future relase, but I'll have to change the format of the search databases. +
++ In the interim, I hacked in the following approach. Assume a search term of "Earth": +
++ First, some background. XOWA loads pages in two stages: +
++ The 2nd stage is necessary because it takes a few tenths of a second to retrieve an image from the database. For large pages (20+ images), this would delay page load by a few seconds (for example: 20 images * .2 second = 4 seconds). +
++ However, once a page is viewed, reloading a page shouldn't have to re-retrieve the image from the database. The previous releases were actually re-retrieving the image. This release just uses the image if it's already there. +
++ This only affects a small minority of items that have a colon and spaces in the title. For example, "List of A:B items". XOWA didn't load this page because the underlying Wikipedia Mobile App was encoding the spaces as +. +
++ I haven't uploaded wikis this week, because I'm working on a blocking item in Wikivoyage (Pagebanner). I'm going to delay another week and focus on updating 2016-01-13 English Wikipedia. This means a new HTML dump which should be available by next Sunday. I'm also hoping to upload the other English wikis, and then continue on to French, etc. +
++ Meanwhile, I'm going to delay the Google Play Store a few weeks. If anyone thinks I should go to Google Play Store earlier, please let me know. From my side, there are a number of items that still need polish. If you have any feedback, please do post in https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues/36 I'd appreciate anything: from "Works fine" to "This feature needs some more work". +
++ Finally, if you have an Android device and want a wiki for your device, let me know which, and I'll bump it up in priority. The next items in queue are French, German, Chinese and Arabic Wikipedia. I'll get to all the wikis but it may take a few months unless I hear requests otherwise. +
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