Wikipedia iPhone app

This page's information is from 2010. For up-to-date information about Wikipedia mobile app development, see Mobile Projects.

Source
More information and build instructions on Github
 * Custom Rhodes fork --- http://github.com/wikimedia/rhodes/tree
 * Application --- http://github.com/wikimedia/WikipediaMobile

Features hopefully going in right quick

 * Language selection
 * Update the footer text & link back to full site

Features to consider adding for future

 * Default to phone's UI language if available
 * Bookmarking
 * Email-page-to-a-friend
 * Search suggestions while you type
 * (Retry) Search other languages
 * Table of contents for faster in-article navigation
 * Better section folding
 * Fold more aggressively on moderately long pages
 * Allow fetching the subsection contents later, so very long pages can be loaded up faster initially.
 * Video/audio playback?
 * cf Wiki Tap
 * probably needs either a native vorbis/theora player (!) or transcoding
 * Location-based search
 * May be easier to push this back until we have geo searching in the official API
 * Pre-seed app with offline articles (possibly in openZim format)
 * Queue pages to read later
 * Shake to retrieve a random Wikipedia article
 * Landscape/potrait re-orientation
 * Universal app / iPad support
 * Retina graphics support