Wikipedia has had an official iOS app for some time now, but was missing a presence on Android. That ends today with the launch of the official Wikipedia app for Android.
The app hasn’t been in the Android Market very long, but shows that it falls within the 10k-50k download bucket. Android doesn’t provide actual numbers on its Market pages, but gives you a fair guesstimate as to how its doing. Needless to say, Android users are excited about the new app with many reviews simply saying “Finally!”.
Features include:
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
The app looks gorgeous and utilizes many of Android’s built in features, especially share.
Even though Wikipedia’s mobile version works just fine on all mobile devices, the addition of location-based features with its native app is definitely a reason to download it. Of course, the app is free and hopefully more features will be introduced as has been the case with its iOS counterpart.
UPDATE: The app is on a tear and now fits into the 100k-500k downloads bucket
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