I've heard a few reports from my friends that the Android app is back to showing cached versions of pages too aggressively. This was an issue a while back which we thought we had fixed. I guess it's back! This should be investigated.
Random idea: only cache aggressively on mainspace articles. I think these people are reading discussions on noticeboards which update much faster.
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tweak local cache policy in app. | apps/android/wikipedia | master | +1 -5 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Dbrant | T101271 Improve local cache policy in the app. | |||
| Resolved | Dbrant | T101845 Android app showing cached versions of pages too aggressively |
Another report: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29/Archive_137#Nexus_5_wikipedia_app. Bumping up priority.
@JKatzWMF @dr0ptp4kt @Dbrant Please check in to this soon!
Change 217296 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dbrant):
Tweak local cache policy in app.
Checked on 2.0.103--alpha-2015-06-12 on Samsung Tablet Ce0168(Android 4.0.4)
Is the following expected?
After the page was updated from another device, I need to click on 'Refresh page' to view the updated content. I cannot see the updated page content if I click on the article in 'Saved pages' or navigate with Back button.
Clicking in History on the article title will bring the updated version.
@Etonkovidova Yes, that's the expected behavior for now. Going "back" or via Saved Pages will prefer the cached/saved versions of the page, before attempting to fetch from the network.