Official Wikipedia App for Android, cell phone mobile, Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia containing more than 20 million articles in 280 languages, and is the most comprehensive and widely used reference work humans have ever compiled.
Ultimately the official Wikipedia application has arrived for the Android users. The Android users had to wait for the Wikipedia application for about a year from the release of the iPhone version.
Looks like Wikipedia was already ready for SOPA with finally its mobile app for Android making its appearance in the marketplace few days back but only noticed by few of its fan so even when it was all blackout today, All mobile fans had its access to the website using the mobile apps.
The app is pretty similar to iPhone version which comes with a some awesome set of must have wikipedian feature like you can Save article to read later or offline, Search articles nearby, You can share via Email, Facebook etc which uses the Android’s default share action, switch languages instantly.
A search bar on top makes it easy to find articles and supports full screen mode making it easy for you to find things. Also the app also supports History and option to change font size making it easy to read text.
The application had been rated more than 600 times and had an average rating of 4.4 stars out of 5 stars. It mostly has positive user reviews however some have complained that it continues using the GPS function in the background even after exiting the application. This ultimately leads to drainage of the battery.
Features:
• Save article to read later or offline
• Search articles nearby
• Share articles using Android “Share” function
• Read article in a different language
• Full screen search
Drawbacks :
* There is no support to move between sections of pages and since scroll bar is also missing you will never know what is the length of the article.
* There is an option to select text for copying paragraphs from the posts but I find it almost not working where selecting the mode or even double tapping resulted in nothing.
* The nearby search result is limited to 4 to 5 which changes when you search again. This should improve in terms of count.
* Lacks Its integration with Google search app/widget which is supported by popular third part apps like Wapedia.
* A small Bug in Saved Pages section will make you off because it appears blank when you are offline and sometimes you dont even get option to save pages.
* All the links open right inside here which makes sense but if you want to open in browser you don’t have an option yet.
* Seems like GPS stays on even when you exit the app so make sure you force kill it untill an update rolls in.
Download in Market Android
