Wikipedia has had an official iOS app for some time now, but was missing a presence on Android. That ends today with the launch of the official Wikipedia app for Android.

The Wikipedia app has been re-designed to add a slew of new and useful features to make it easier to check out content on the go.

– In Android 6.0, highlighting a word in any other app gives the option to search for it in Wikipedia. – Deleting your browsing history will now also clear your open tabs.

On individual Wikipedia articles the bottom links shift to a bookmark icon, share button, translate button, quick search, and an activator for the slide-out menu.

To say that mobile has been a huge boost for Wikipedia would be an understatement according to a post from the site today, saying that its 2-month-old Android version alone has accounted for 23M ...

The beta program for the Android app, as well as the separate Wikipedia Beta app, has just received a new update that drastically changes the reading list functionality.