# Android/Setup

From XOWA: the free, open-source, offline wiki application

## Application

- (Android) Open Google Play and search for "XOWA"
- (Browser) Go to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xowa and press Install
- (Offline) Go to https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/releases and grab the latest xowa_app_android_v*.apk

## Wikis

### Download the wiki

- Pick a wiki from the list below [1]
  - To view text only, download the `html` links
  - To view images, also download the `images` links
- Not all files are required for the wiki
  - Only the files marked `core` are required
  - Other files may be skipped, but you won't see data in those files

    For example, if you don't download `html.category articles`, you won't be able to read categories (articles in the [[Category]] namespace)
    For example, if you don't download `images.main articles.part-02`, you won't have 500,000 random images.

### Unzip the download

- Use 7-zip to unzip the downloads

### Move the files to your SD card

- The unzip will create a folder like `C:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org`
- Move this folder to your SD card.

  For example, if your SD card is on the X drive, you will be moving them to `X:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org`
  When done, you will have a file like `X:\xowa\wiki\en.wikipedia.org\en.wikipedia.org-core.xowa` as well as many others

### Import the wiki in XOWA

- Press `the menu button` in the top left-hand corner
- Press the `XOWA` item
- Press the `blue plus` image in the top right-hand corner of the grid

  If you're on Marshmallow, you will get a prompt to allow XOWA to read your SD card. Please allow it. For more information on XOWA's privacy policy, see Help/Privacy/Android

- Go to the wiki folder on your SD card

  For example, on an LG G4 device, you would navigate to `storage` -> `CARD-CODE` -> `xowa` -> `wiki` -> `en.wikipedia.org`

- Press the file with the XOWA icon. In this case it would be `en.wikipedia.org-core.xowa`

## Open the wiki

- Press the link for the wiki on the `XOWA` page
- You will be navigated to the Main Page. Enjoy!

## Android wikis

wiki | wiki date | posted date | size (GB) | type | download
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
https://simple.wikipedia.org | 2016-03-05 | 2016-03-28 | 1.9 | .xowa | html file
https://en.wikipedia.org | 2016-03-05 | 2016-03-20 | 28.8 | .xowa | html.core html.main articles.part-1 html.main articles.part-2 html.main articles.part-3 html.project articles html.category articles html.portal articles
https://en.wikipedia.org | 2016-03-05 | 2016-04-09 | 80 | .xowa | images.core images.main articles.part-01 images.main articles.part-02 images.main articles.part-03 images.main articles.part-04 images.main articles.part-05 images.main articles.part-06 images.main articles.part-07 images.main articles.part-08 images.main articles.part-09 images.main articles.part-10 images.other articles

1. ^ More wikis will be generated over the coming months. If you want a specific wiki, please make a request at https://github.com/gnosygnu/xowa/issues

### XOWA

- Main page
- Screenshots
- Download XOWA
- Download wikis

### Getting started

- Requirements
- Installation
- Simple Wikipedia
- English Wikipedia
- Other Wikipedias

### Android

- Setup

### Help

- About
- Contents
- Media
- Feedback

### Blog

- Current

### Links

- Wikimedia dumps
- XOWA @ archive.org
- English Wikipedia

### Donate

- archive.org
- Wikipedia