"share as text" gives no link, no URL
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	jeremyb-phone
	Jul 3 2015, 1:57 PM

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Again I ask: how to set a bug as a blocker for release? this would. do not promote the beta until this is fixed...

Android App 2.0.105-beta-2015-06-30

I can select text on the page and copy it. I can select the title and copy it.

The only way I knew to get the URL was to "share as text". Now even that doesn't work. It gives an excerpt from the lead followed by "(Full article...)" in plain text not a link. (anyway, I don't want a link... I want the URL in plain text)

Very often the reason to get the link is to open it in a mobile browser. I'll file separately the feature to directly open current article in other browser. (no clipboard, no pasting required)

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Add article URL to share-as-text	apps/android/wikipedia	master	+44 -48

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: rAPAW2048206641fe: Add article URL to share-as-text
T103951: Sharing to email should provide better references
T104705: add option to open current page in browser
Mentioned Here: T104705: add option to open current page in browser
T103951: Sharing to email should provide better references

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jeremyb-phone created this task.Jul 3 2015, 1:57 PM

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jeremyb-phone mentioned this in T104705: add option to open current page in browser.Jul 3 2015, 2:04 PM

Dbrant moved this task from Needs Triage to Next Sprint on the Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog board.Jul 5 2015, 4:41 PM

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Related to T103951.

Dbrant added a project: Mobile-App-Sprint-61-Android-Beach-Boys.Jul 6 2015, 9:24 PM

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Needs acceptance criteria: what precisely should be shared as text?

• Mholloway moved this task from Doing to To Do on the Mobile-App-Sprint-61-Android-Beach-Boys board.Jul 10 2015, 1:27 PM

until recently it would share just the URL and nothing else. I don't
remember for sure but here maybe was an intermediate period since then when
it shared page title (spaces not underscores) + URL

I don't care very much what it says but it must have a URL.

also there should be some way to copy just the URL alone. (some apps
recently have grown a "Copy URL" button when you hit share that's separate
from the rest of the share options. see e.g. youtube's share menu)

and a way to directly open the URL in another browser or to open the
Wikidata item in a browser.

• Mholloway moved this task from To Do to Doing on the Mobile-App-Sprint-61-Android-Beach-Boys board.Jul 10 2015, 2:34 PM

Change 224105 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mholloway):
Add article URL to share-as-text

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/224105

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 10 2015, 4:07 PM

• Mholloway moved this task from Doing to Code Review on the Mobile-App-Sprint-61-Android-Beach-Boys board.Jul 10 2015, 4:09 PM

@jeremyb A link to open the current page in the browser was recently added in T104705 and should appear in the next beta release. (Automated alpha builds are down at the moment.)

If a separate "copy URL" button would also be useful to you, please file a separate feature request task so we can keep the concerns separated. Thank you!

@jeremyb-phone ^

• Mholloway mentioned this in T103951: Sharing to email should provide better references.Jul 10 2015, 5:37 PM

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• bearND moved this task from Code Review to Design Signoff on the Mobile-App-Sprint-61-Android-Beach-Boys board.Jul 13 2015, 10:19 PM

Change 224105 merged by jenkins-bot:
Add article URL to share-as-text

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/224105

• Mholloway mentioned this in rAPAW2048206641fe: Add article URL to share-as-text.Jul 13 2015, 10:20 PM

Signed off by design.

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