Title: Mobile Team Update – March 26th
Author: elibud
Published: March 26, 2019

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4:25 pm _on_ March 26, 2019     
Tags: [mobile ( 216 )](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/tag/mobile/)

# Mobile Team Update – March 26th

WordPress iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android version
12.1 will be available for testing later today. [Sign up here](https://testflight.apple.com/join/AkJQt8Pw)
to join 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. program on 
iOS or follow [this link](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wordpress.android)
on your Android device, tap on _Become a beta tester_.

Highlights for the last two weeks:

 * 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: We continued working on bug fixes after a smooth soft
   launch.
 * Post FilterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks [https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks](https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks).
   They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are 
   the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated
   manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables
   and output. improvements in Android continues.
 * Offline Support: iOS offline messages were migrated from Alerts to Notices.
 * Infrastructure: We continued working on end-to-end tests on Android and iOS.
 * Marketing: More progress on the [https://wordpress.org/mobile/](https://wordpress.org/mobile/)
   [redesign](https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4096).

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