kiwix-js-pwa VS kiwix-android

WikiMed by Kiwix is now at v2.7.4. The packages for 64bit and 32bit Linux and Windows contain the October 2023 WikiMed English ZIM (mdwiki_en_all_maxi_2023-10), together with the changes in the CHANGELOG. The Electron app uses Electron v22.3.25.

Release packages for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, AppImage, Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js-windows/releases/tag/v2.5.0

The packages contain the March 2023 WikiMed English ZIM (mdwiki_en_all_maxi_2023-03), because there have been no new updated MDWiki ZIM archives since March, together with the changes in the CHANGELOG (also copied below). The Electron app uses Electron v22.3.8.

Release: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js-windows/releases/tag/v2.4.6-Wikivoyage

See full changelog for fixes and updates.

For overall changelog, see https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js-windows/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md.

Please note that Zimit support in the PWA is experimental, and it may struggle with highly dynamic content. Any issues can be reported to me here. Kiwix devs will be working on standardized (and hopefully more universal) Zimit support across the range of apps, with dedicated developer focus planned for the end of May.

u/verrucagnome This fix is now released in v2.4.0: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js-windows/releases/tag/v2.4.0 and the PWA https://pwa.kiwix.org (let it update to v2.4.0).

u/Nibb31 There's no need to run it in Docker, as you can compile the Electron versions on either Linux or Windows simply by cloning the Repo and running npm install --save-dev, then npm start to test, or npm run dist-linux (or dist-win), to make packages. See scripts in package.json. It uses electron-builder to build the apps, in case you're familiar with its CLI.

The packages contain the December 2022 WikiMed English ZIM (mdwiki_en_all_maxi_2022-12), together with the changes in the CHANGELOG. The Electron app uses Electron v18.3.15.

Thanks for checking that. So it seems like we have an issue with UTF8 search for mutli-byte character sets. I've opened this issue on GitHub to investigate further: Search appears to be broken with Chinese characters (possibly all UTF-8 multibyte characters).

Either way the previous version still works. https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/releases/tag/3.8.0

Looking further it looks like 3.6.0 used to be on f-droid https://www.reddit.com/r/Kiwix/comments/wxaf88/kiwixandroid_360_available_on_fdroid_major_fix/ but was pulled all the way back to 2.4 due to containing non FOSS. https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/issues/30910 which looks like isn't slated to be fixed until 3.7.0

https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android haven’t been there for a few years now but happy with what I did and taught. Introduced kotlin to a pure java environment and it was so much better every time

Kiwix (version 3.6.0): Offline Wikipedia reader

https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/blob/develop/core/src/main/java/org/kiwix/kiwixmobile/core/extensions/CursorExtensions.kt ah good it is still there, haven’t been on the project in years

Never had such a problem with my Pixel4 but I would totally suggest you open a ticket on github describing the issue.

It's a known issue and should be fixed with the next release, but feel free to open a ticket on https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/issues

That's an unusual issue - would you mind opening a ticket on https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/issues ? (basically indicate the Android version, device, Kiwix version, etc. so we can try and reproduce)