We’ve just published version 1.3.9 of WordPress for Android to the Android Market. The release includes some handy new features as well as some important bug fixes:
QuickPress Shortcuts
We’ve seen some great support from volunteer developers in the community. A big thanks to contributor Christof Dorner, who added support for QuickPress shortcuts on the Android home screen. Just long press on the home screen, select ‘Shortcuts->QuickPress’ and then select the blog that you would like to use. You will then have an icon on your home screen that takes you directly to the new post screen to start blogging straight away!
Share Post URL to Other Apps
You can now share a link to posts you’ve published on your blog to other Android apps. Just tap the post title and then ‘Share URL’, and then select the app you want to share the link to.
Bug Fixes
This release contains the following bug fixes:
- Use EXTRA_SUBJECT when adding shared content to a post
- Incorrect comment date if moderating from a different time zone than the WP blog’s set time zone
- Spanish translation updates
Grab the update from Android Market now:
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Great, updated
“Share Post URL” is a great new feature
Gr8 Release
It is possible to get the http authentication to the next release?
It would be fantastic!
A community dev is working on http auth, it should make the next release!
Thank you Dan for the good news
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Hello, just to let you found a bug on these application and ask you to fix it please.
The problem is descrived in the following text and in the several posts describing the tests we made, with our blog available in
http://www.rede2001.com/blogs/notas/?p=523
Conclusion:
On the tests made with these post “Test via Android I -V”, we discovered that WordPress for Android has a bug – it doesn’t accept Portuguese characters (accents and cedilla).
When one of those characters is used, the publication stops ta that same point.
I hope the developers of WordPress. org will correct this.
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It may help to check your database/wp character encoding settings, they should be UTF-8.
Hello
I have checked my wp characters encoding and it is on UTF-8…
Have you any ideia of any thing else i can try?
Or if the bug with portuguese characters has been resolved?
thanks
Are you running PHP 5?
Sorry for the late response.
No, my site hosting has only PHP4.
Is it related to the error?
thanks
thanks you!just updated.
how can i download this release APK？
cant find a download url…i dont want to download it in the market
tks
mail:bing.won@gmail.com
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Since updating, when I post images to my blog, the image gets duplicated on the way up, so I wind up with two copies of the image in my Media Library and in my post. This only happens when I post from my phone
NM, I figured out the problem, nothing to see here!
I’m a chinese website manager about Android apps.
But my htc desire doesn’t have the android market
so could you offer me the url of wordpress’s apk file?
that i can introduce this app on my website.
@iYu — Could you post this question to the forum, so developers can take a look?
Hi, I’m wondering if you can help me figure out why the content of my posts gets deleted when I upload a local draft from my phone to my self-hosted blog. It’s happened multiple times and this most recent time I forgot to copy the text before trying to upload so I lost the entire (lengthy) post.
I’m running app v. 1.3.9 on an HTC Incredible and uploading to WP 3.0.4.
I tried to find other people with the issue and only found a few who had commented on the apps page in the Market.
Thanks for any help you can give.
@Courtenay — could you post to the forum so we can take a look?
Done. Thanks!
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hello everyone!, I’m new on here and looking forward to being a part of the conversation !
Yes, it wasn’t sending me to the correct page when I clicked on it to letcha know about bugs and whatnot w/ the Android app….. well I recently purchased the HTC EVO, downloaded the app being I love to blog & having TONS OF PROBLEMS!! Freezes, crashes, etc. Being new to this Blogger site, should I have downloaded a diff app or is there ne thing that will fix the problems? BTW, I did try d/ling the iPad app, don’t have Apple OS tho!!! Help!!!!!!!!!
Visit us at http://android.forums.wordpress.org and we can get your issues sorted out.
I downloaded to my Xoom, but I get a 404 error when I try to connect to my blog.
No official support for tablets yet, but we have seen it work in the emulator. Check that you are entering the correct blog URL.
Are you entering baseballmusings.com as the url? baseballmusings.com/wp might work better.
Yes, I tried that and http://www.baseballmusings.com, http://baseballmusings.com.
Please try baseballmusings.com/wp
That worked! Thanks very much.
Hello, I use android wordpress on my HTC Desire and there is a problem with french accents. My posts are cut just at words that contains an accent
When I read comments above, I see that I am not alone to have that problem.
My encoding is set on UTF-8
Could you fix it please ? Thanks a lot
A lot of users have fixed this by upgrading to php 5. What version are you running?
My provider use PHP 5.0 but it does not work. It is a free provider.Encoding is also set in UTF-8.
However, my wordpress blog works fine on my mac and PC without encodings problems.
Another idea ? Thanks for your answer!
I finally find a solution on the web. I placed an .htaccess file (.txt file) at the root of my website.
In this text file, I wrote only :
PHP 1
and now it works fine! Maybe people who have problem with accents should give it a try ?
It is supposed to upgrade the database for my provider…
HTH ^^ and thanks for your support!
Great, enjoy the app!
I am seeing bugs using this application on a tablet device. I am trying to geolocate a post when a user creates a post from the application. Creating a NEW post seems to be working okay, it can find the location from the devices GPS. The issue is when you go and edit a post, the Location panel sits at “Loading” and you cannot update location or view on the map. Also, HTML tags are present inside the content of the post, again when editing a post.
This is not the desired effect I am looking for and consider these to be bugs with the application. Are these being looked at? If so, when can we expect a new release? I understand that there is no official support for tablets yet, but that doesn’t imply when we will see support.
Any information would be helpful, thanks.
WordPress Version: 3.1
Device: Motorola Xoom (Android 3.0)
Wordpress for Android Version: 1.3.9
Wordpress Geolocation Plugin Version: 0.1.1
Yes, we haven’t had a chance to get the app prepared for honeycomb yet. HTML has to be used when editing an existing post due to limitations in the Android platform at this time. If we used the same editor as a new post when you edit an existing post, there’s a good chance HTML from the post will be stripped out.
Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for the reply. I understand the editor issue when editing posts, thats what I figured. I think the bigger issue is when your editing a post it can’t seem to find the location and just sits at loading. We might take a look at the source code and see if we cant fix the issue and submit a patch back to you.
Thanks again.
Patches welcome
I dont know the best way to communicate this. I have submitted a new ticket and patch that added an option to “not” show images in the post content. Instead we wanted the images to be uploaded, but also be attached to the post itself as a gallery. After looking to wordpress source code found a way to properly do this.
http://android.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/130
Is a spell check feature planned for a future version?
Not really, since the Android keyboard has a spell checker built in.
Fair enough, but the X10 Mini Pro has a slide out qwerty that does not.
Really great Update
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Great update on wordpress.
Thank you for keeping it sharp.
Hi ADMINS, I have been using WordPress for Android 1.3.9 for about a week. I really like the App, it rocks! I am using this to update my hosted WordPress blogs.
WAIT!
Just want to suggest a “LABEL” between a DRAFT POST and EXISTING POST. Theres no difference, and I don’t know if I already hit the Publish button. I need to log on my computer to check if I had clicked the publish button from a DRAFT post by mistake. JUST a small text from a POST that says it is a DRAFT.
Great app, thank you.
Have one question, I can I upload a photo/picture that I already have stored on my phone? I can easily add a photo new photo using Quick Photo, which actually takes the photo, but what if you alreayd have them stored on your phone? I cannot find a way of doing this.
New Post > Post Format > Image also doesn’t do it.
Yes, create a new post and tap the content field. Then tap the camera icon and you will be prompted to select an image from your library.