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The Android app is working on improving its support for language variants. One problem we've found is that, for languages with variants, we store the canonical page title (which may be in a different variant than the user wants) and display that to the user in UI such as reading lists, history, and so forth. We'd like to be able to hold the title in an arbitrary variant of the user's choice for correct in-app display, and be able to submit it to the mobileview API to retrieve page content, but ApiMobileView doesn't implement anything like the `converttitles` parameter in the core API query module. (It does have a `variant` parameter that allows us to get content in any variant provided we have the canonical title, but that's not the case we're looking at). It looks like updating ApiMobileView to handle this case would be as easy as adding a call to `Language::findVariantLink` (h/t @Tgr). Is there any reason not to do this?

The Android app team is working on improving the app's support for language variants. One problem we've found is that, for languages with variants, we store the canonical page title (which may be in a different variant than the user wants) and display that to the user in UI such as reading lists, history, and so forth. We'd like to be able to hold the title in an arbitrary variant of the user's choice for correct in-app display, and be able to submit it to the mobileview API to retrieve page content, but ApiMobileView doesn't implement anything like the `converttitles` parameter in the core API query module. (It does have a `variant` parameter that allows us to get content in any variant provided we have the canonical title, but that's not the case we're looking at). It looks like updating ApiMobileView to handle this case would be as easy as adding a call to `Language::findVariantLink` (h/t @Tgr). Is there any reason not to do this?

The Android app team is working on improving itsthe app's support for language variants. One problem we've found is that, for languages with variants, we store the canonical page title (which may be in a different variant than the user wants) and display that to the user in UI such as reading lists, history, and so forth. We'd like to be able to hold the title in an arbitrary variant of the user's choice for correct in-app display, and be able to submit it to the mobileview API to retrieve page content, but ApiMobileView doesn't implement anything like the `converttitles` parameter in the core API query module. (It does have a `variant` parameter that allows us to get content in any variant provided we have the canonical title, but that's not the case we're looking at). It looks like updating ApiMobileView to handle this case would be as easy as adding a call to `Language::findVariantLink` (h/t @Tgr). Is there any reason not to do this?