Re: [Kiwix-developer] SERIOUS software bug on Android Kiwix app

[Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...>]

Hi Michael

On 08.08.19 22:38, Michael Mantouvalos wrote:
> Hi, I have installed Kiwix on both my Android 7 phone and tablet (these
> devices are: Xiaomi Mi Max 2 and Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7inch, with 4GB
> Ram, 64 GB Rom and 3GB/32GB respectively). The app installed ok, found 4
> zims I had already pre-downloaded on my two 64gb micro sd cards, opened
> them ok, browsed them ok, read 10-15 several articles without issues,
> *everything looked fine *(those zims are under 4GB in size each one, had
> pre-downloaded them via my Windows desktop pc and transferred them on
> the sd cards via usb cables into the devices, via the standard
> file-transfer process).
> 
> Next time I opened the app on both devices *_can't see any articles on
> those zims!!_* I get blank white screens. The 4 zims are still there on
> the sd cards, the app can see them, can open them, can search inside
> them (when I'm trying various search keywords), *_BUT it does not
> display any articles_* (I'm always staring at a blank white screen no
> matter what I do!!... just the top-bottom menus are there, but nothing
> at all on the screen's "article area"). Again, when I reinstall the app,
> it works fine *_BUT only for its first time!_*
Thank you for the report. I think this problem has been fixed in 2.5.3
we have released a few weeks ago. If not, please open a bug at
https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/issues.

Kind regards
Emmanuel

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