Help:Community Apps


 * If you are the admin of your community and are interested in learning how to curate content for your Community App, please read the Mobile Main Page help page and the Community Apps for Admins help page.
 * For a list of all Fandom mobile products, visit the Fandom Mobile help page.

Did you know that approximately half of the visits across Fandom are coming from mobile devices? To support that mobile traffic, Fandom is creating iOS and Android apps that focus exclusively on individual communities.



What are Community Apps?
Community Apps are free apps available for Android and iOS. They provide quick mobile access to your community's content that is curated by you! Community Apps allow your community to have an optimal display and format for mobile devices, so your community is easy to read, navigate, and explore.

You can download the App for your community in the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

Your Community App's home screen
After you have downloaded and started the app for the first time, you'll go through a very quick tour of the app's features. You'll then be presented with the home screen. At the top of the home screen is the top nav bar, containing a search button and a button to open the app menu. Via the app menu, you can invite friends, discover other Fandom communities, and change your app settings.

Located beneath the nav bar is a slideshow of featured content the community's admins have put together for you. Underneath you see stats about the community. They show you the total number of pages, total number of photos, and total number of videos on the wiki. You then see your community's content, sorted by categories. These are curated by the community's admins as well.

If your community has Discussions enabled, you will see a link to Discussions and a preview of trending posts as well. Finally, there is a feed of the wiki's most frequently read pages and categories, and of the most popular videos. This is a good way to stay current with news in your topic of interest, and to see what your community has been looking at lately.

Content navigation
The purpose of any Community App is to connect fans with the articles, images, and videos from their community of interest. The content is organized by the categories that exist on the community where the content lives (usually nameofcommunity.wikia.com). This content is selected by category by the admins of a given community.


 * If you are an admin and curious about how to curate content for your own community, see Community Apps for Admins.

There is a navigation bar on the app's home screen, as well as the main screens for your community's Discussions, articles, and videos. It will disappear as you scroll down to see more content, and reappear if you start scrolling back up. You can use this bar to quickly navigate to the different sections of your community:
 * Home screen
 * Discussions
 * Articles sorted by "Trending" and "Recommended"
 * Videos sorted by "Trending", latest, and popular
 * Fandom stories and trending content (only available on some communities)

Finding Content
There are several ways to find content on a Community App.
 * 1) By category - The first option is to tap your way through the categories and subcategories presented on the home screen. Simply select the category that pertains to the article you are looking for. For example, the Weapons category would be a good place to look for a 'Sniper Rifle' article.
 * 2) By search - The second method is to click on the search button in the navigation bar at the top of the screen. There you can type in the name of any content you are looking for.

Navigating an article page
Once you've found the article page that you are looking for, you will see the main content space, and a navigation bar at the top of the screen.


 * 1) Content Space - In an article page you will find all of the various forms of content that an article might have. This could include text, tables, images, videos and more. Articles are pulled directly from their desktop versions via the curation process mentioned above.
 * 2) Top navigation bar - The top navigation bar has three buttons: search, share, and options. The search button allows you to find other pages. The share button allows you to share an article as an image or as text via your phone's sharing apps.

The menu button opens a dropdown menu with further options. Related pages shows you a list of other articles that pertain to the one you are viewing. They are most likely from the same category. "Sections" shows you the page's table of contents and lets you jump directly to a specific section. Under "Display options", you can change text size, background color and brightness, among other page settings. This allows you to tailor your experience to your personal preferences.

Further help and feedback
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