Wikimedia Apps/Commons/Archives/Iteration 1

Archive for the first iteration of the Commons app, that ended on 8th Feb 2013:

Iteration 1

Date: 1/28/13 - 2/08/13

Android

• Nightly build
• https://github.com/Wikimedia/android-commons
• https://github.com/Wikimedia/java-mwapi
• https://github.com/wikimedia/android-mwlogin

Tasks

android wireframes for v1.0

iOS wireframes for v1.0

1. Persistant Secure Login  Done
2. Upload a photo to commons (only via share intents - no launchers) (background uploads!)  Done
3. Be able to set title, description, select categories  Done
4. Able to queue and upload multiple files (shouldn't have to wait for one to finish uploading before next one can be queued)  Done
5. Feedback on what is happening via Notifications (not too spammy!)  Done
6. Resume uploads appropriately (never have to type in info for an upload twice)  Done
7. Tag mobile uploads appropriately, to enable tracking  Done
8. My uploads (queued, currently uploading, previous)  Done
9. Compatibility with Android 2.3 Moved to next iteration

Plumbing

1. Setup Maven for http-fluent  Done, java-mwapi  Done, android-mwlogin  Done and commons app  Done

Design Assets Needed

1. Variant of the logo for Nightly releases [1]
2. Icons for the notification bar (Strictly to guidelines, appropriate to both 2.3 and 4.x) - see [2]
3. Background to indicate that an image is 'loading'

Wireframes v 1.0

iOS

• Source: https://github.com/Wikimedia/Commons-iOS
• Screen shots and workflows: /iOS/Workflows

Tasks

1. Persistant Secure Login (use iOS Keychain services for storage)  Done
2. Select photos from gallery or take photo in app  Done
3. Upload a photo to commons (upload while app is foreground; no background uploads yet?)  Done
4. Upload using async i/o  Done
5. Be able to set title, description  Done
6. Retry when upload fails (I should never have to type title, description, etc more than once)  Done
7. Able to queue and upload multiple files (shouldn't have to wait for one to finish downloading before next starts)  Done
8. show queue in the app  Done
9. allow canceling  Done
10. link to your already-uploaded images on mobile web  Done
11. + Allow receiving files from other apps  Done

Focus Areas

1. Compatibility with iOS 5.0 and later  Done
2. Appropriate retry functionality  Done - can restart manually after failure, without reinputting.
3. Does not 'fail silently' -- good error messages everywhere  Done
4. Clean progress bar, backgrounded i/o  Done