Apple announced the best application of the week in the App Store in the course of yesterday, those from Cupertino promoting a great title for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touchusers from all over the world.
Viki · A Nice Reader for Wikipedia is the name of the application chosen by the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), to be promoted in this section and you probably already realized that we are talking about a title that gives us the opportunity to access Wikipedia much more easily from our own iDevices.
According to the developers Viki, the application offers us a multitude of functions that we would not normally have at our disposal, more precisely information from Wikipedia about the locations around us, a better interface to read that information and a much more efficient system for bookmarking.
Wikipedia, better than ever—on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Discover the world and enjoy beautiful typography with this sleek app. NEARBY PLACES: Discover interesting Wikipedia articles about the area around your location. Or explore any other spot in the world. It's fun with Viki's unique map visualization. SEARCH RESULTS: Viki is powered by Wikipedia's full-text search. Matches are displayed as rich article previews, tweaked for both legibility and high information density.
Separately, the application Viki it has a more efficient system for loading images, redoes the design of information to be better viewed on mobile terminals, has a menu for fast navigation, allows editing Wikipedia from Safari, has support for 3D Touch and many, many others.
- Efficient images load right before you view them, saving time and bandwidth
- Large tables are shrunk proportionally to fit on the screen
- Table of contents panel for quick navigation
- Wikipedia editing in Safari — just tap the share icon
- Slide Over and Split View support on iPad
- 3D Touch action menu on the app icon
- Open articles in Viki from Safari's share menu
- Search in Viki from any other app via the text-selection context menu
- Dynamic Type respects your device's font size settings
- VLC integration to play Wikipedia's esoteric media file formats
- Natural image zoom with swipe-to-dismiss
- Syntax highlighting for source code examples in articles
- Sophisticated sharing that you'll actually want to use
Viki · A Nice Reader for Wikipedia is available for DOWNLOAD in universal format from the App Store.
