Your work on the Wikipedia app for Android has been excellent. I particularly appreciate the black theme.
Below are a few minor bugs that have been bothering me for years already, that you may wish to correct.
- The context-menu item, "open in new tab" OFTEN opens links in the SAME tab, instead of a new tab, albeit not always. At that point, there is no back-arrow for returning to the spot where the user was reading before this glitch occurred, so the frustration is greatly compounded.
- I would find it much more useful if the "back arrow" did what ordinary internet browsers did: namely, if it took the user back to the previously-viewed article, not the Explorer page.
After all, the "Search Wikipedia" field is always visible at the top of any open Wikipedia article anyway, so why take the user back to the "Explorer page" with a click of the "back arrow," to perform his next search?" He can already do it from the opened article window.
2." Bookmarks' are not accessible from any "article" page, but rather, only from the Explorer page. I need fast access from any open article page.
- The icon toolbar is not really very customizable; it lets the user move the icons around, but it doesn't let him remove any of the ones that he never uses, and it does not offer him any other options to add to the toolbar either.
- The main top photograph at the head of every Wikipedia article is rarely ever centered in such a way that it is useful. For example, if I want to read the article about a certain movie star, the photograph often has the top part of his head cut off. If I want to read an article about a particular building, the picture might just show the lower half of the building or the top half or something like that rather than the whole building.
Now, I could understand, if some photographs were unusually oriented vertically or horizontally to the point that they would not fit into the top space of a Wikipedia article, but this problem persists in half of the Wikipedia articles; the photograph is usually off-centered or excessively cropped and can only be viewed correctly when double clicking on it to open it in a separate window.
(Coincidentally this problem exists in the WhatsApp Messenger profile pictures, and seems to be a point of frustration for many users there too)
I guess an easy work-around for you developers would be to generate empty space above, below, or to the sides of any picture that does not perfectly fit your designated space for that header. For example, if using the ordinary white theme, this blank space could simply be generated as white. In my case, I like your black theme, so that empty space could be generated automatically as solid black if the user is currently using the black theme. Regardless of which photograph Wikipedia editors choose to use for the main photograph at the top of any article, even if it is unusually tall but not wide, you could force the whole photograph to fit without readjusting the proportions and then automatically generate Blank Space to fill in the rest.
[By the way, I'm using a Galaxy S10+ SM-G975U1 Android 12.0 w system-wide dark theme]
Once again, you have done an excellent job on the app so I hope that my suggestions can help you to make it even beyond excellent.