Title: Call for Testing: WordPress for Android 15.5 Author: Sheri Grey Published: August 10, 2020 Last modified: August 17, 2020 --- [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/designsimply/) [Sheri Grey](https://profiles.wordpress.org/designsimply/) 6:18 pm _on_ August 10, 2020 Tags: [15.5 ( 2 )](https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/tag/15-5/), [Android ( 166 )](https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/tag/android/), [call for testing ( 130 )](https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/tag/call-for-testing/), [mobile ( 198 )](https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/tag/mobile/)    # Call for Testing: WordPress for Android 15.5 WordPress for Android version 15.5-rc-1 is available for testing on the BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. channel. You can ask to join the Beta Program at [Android App Testing](https://href.li/?https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.wordpress.android) on Google Play. Once you have been accepted, click the “Become a Tester” button at the same link. To test with an apk, you can download `[wpandroid-15.5-rc-1-universal.apk](https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android/releases/tag/15.5-rc-1)`. ## Bugs & Feedback If you find a bug or want to share a feature request after testing, you can comment on this post, pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” one of us in the [#mobile room on WordPress.org Slack](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/), or head straight GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. [https://github.com/](https://github.com/) and open an issue—please see “ Where to Report” below. ## Release Notes * BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Editor: New feature for WordPress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. [https://wordpress.com/](https://wordpress.com/) and Jetpack sites: auto-complete username mentions. An auto-complete popup will show up when the user types the@ character in the block editor. * Search on post list for self-hosted sites has been enabled. * Upload of audio files and documents in the media library has been enabled. * Block Editor: Media editing support in Cover block. * Block Editor: Fixed a bug on the Heading block, where a heading with a link and string formatting showed a white shadow in dark mode. ## What to Test To prepare: * Go to Account > App Settings > Privacy settings and turn on the “Collect information” and “Crash reports” options. * Go to My Site > Settings > Use Block Editor to enable the block editor for new posts. * Switch to Dark Theme when testing Android 9.0+ devices for this release. On the device, go to Settings > Display > Advanced > Device theme and choose “Dark”. * If you are comfortable testing in a language other than English, please test in that language. To test: 1. [11693](https://href.li/?https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android/pull/11693) Test with a WordPress.com Simple or Jetpack site. Create a new post or page, type`@` to select any user from the site, verify the mentioned user is notified. Repeat the test using the `@` option in the editor toolbar. Try typing an `@` symbol as a word by itself or at the start of the word with using mentions. 2. [12488](https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android/pull/12488) Test with a WordPress.com Simple or Jetpack site. Go to Media, “+” (top right), “Choose from device” and try uploading each file type mentioned at [https://wordpress.com/support/accepted-filetypes/](https://wordpress.com/support/accepted-filetypes/). Verify you can add images and videos into a post or page using the available blocks in the block editor. Verify you can add a file to a new post from the notice that appears after uploading it in Media. What happens when you do this with an audio file? (Note: the audio block is not yet supported in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/) Mobile.) 3. [12488](https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android/pull/12488) Test with a Self-hosted site. Go to Media, “+” (top right), “Choose from device” and try uploading each file type mentioned at [https://codex.wordpress.org/Uploading_Files](https://codex.wordpress.org/Uploading_Files). Verify you can add images and videos into a post or page using the available blocks in the block editor. Verify you can add a file to a new post from the snackbar notice after uploading it in Media (what happens when you do this with an audio file?). 4. [12565](https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android/pull/12565) Test with a Self-hosted site. Go to My Site > Blog Posts and search for posts. Check to see if words in the title and/or body work and that you can see older posts. Verify search results are the expected results. Test using a site with several hundred posts. 5. [23280](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/23280) Create a new post or page, add a cover block, add an image, verify you can tap the image to preview, replace the image, and tap the media editing icon at top to make edits to the image and then verify the edits are visible after publishing. If you are able to complete the entire list above, please continue testing by looking at all the related PRs targeting [WordPress-Android 15.5](https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android/milestone/176?closed=1) and [gutenberg-mobile 1.34](https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/gutenberg-mobile/milestone/51?closed=1), specifically any that you are able to and that aren’t already represented above. ## Where to Report * [WordPress-Android](https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android/issues) on GitHub for non-block-editor issues. * [gutenberg-mobile](https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/gutenberg-mobile/issues) on GitHub for block editor issues. * This post for questions, feedback, or issues you’re not sure how to report in GitHub. ## Instructions for Reporting Issues * Search the GitHub repository first to see if the bug is a known issue. If you verify a known issue, please leave a comment noting the app and device info you tested with! * For new issues, please follow the template GitHub repository that shows up when creating a [new issue](https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android/issues/new). * Please be aware that a bot will ask for labels but you may not have rights to add them. Know that labels will be added by someone on the triage team. 👍 * Please do not include full Activity Logs which include tokens. Activity Logs can be very helpful for debugging but you should only include them if you have removed tokens as those should not be shared publicly. 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