Read and queue Wikipedia articles on Android
Having access to Wikipedia can be helpful in a lot of cases. Maybe you are at school and currently using it for research or in a foreign country or city that you want to know more about. As long as you have Internet connection you can simply browse Wikipedia while you are online. Sometimes though you may not have an always-on Internet connection available or prefer not to waste bandwidth by saving Wikipedia articles at home for offline reading later on.
LoboWiki is a free program for Google's Android 4.0 or higher operating system that lets you read and queue Wikipedia articles in an elegant manner. The app may not look like much when you open it for the first time. All you get is a search field at the top and that's about it.
Once you start using the search you quickly realize that this is one of the best implementations of Wikipedia on Android yet. The program displays suggestions right away while you type that you can use to quickly add the relevant article to the queue.
Why it is not opening the articles directly? Because it has been designed to give you options to quickly add multiple articles to the reading queue. All articles that you add are automatically available locally so that you do not need online access to open them on your phone or tablet.
The main interface gets filled up with the articles that you add to it and you can use it as a starting location to browse individual articles.
Just tap on any article listed here to open it. Articles are optimized for readability and include both links and images next to text.
You can make use of the queuing feature while reading articles as well. A tap on a link adds the linked article to the queue so that it becomes available offline as well. This also means that you can add Wikipedia articles to the reading queue easily without navigating away from the article you are reading. Even better, swiping to the right or left opens the next or previous article in the queue immediately on the screen.
The application supports only three interface languages, English, Polish and Italian, but a couple dozen Wikipedia languages. You can set preferred languages in the preferences of the application to get search results that match your language preference.
Verdict
If you are using Wikipedia regularly on your Android 4.0 or higher phone or tablet you may want to try out LoboWiki as it may make things a lot easier for you. The queue feature coupled with the offline reading ability is really powerful and handy at the same time.
Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.