Title: Mobile Team Update – May 18th
Author: elibud
Published: May 18, 2021

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3:29 pm _on_ May 18, 2021     
Tags: [mobile ( 216 )](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/tag/mobile/)

# Mobile Team Update – May 18th

WordPress iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android version
17.4 is available for testing. [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**: Fixed an iOS issue that was causing the editor to 
   freeze in landscape mode under certain conditions.
 * **Full Site Editing:** Resolved an issue that was causing rendering problems 
   in the color picker.
 * **Other projects:** Several large text and localization fixes in iOS.
 * **Infrastructure:** We moved all the Android libraries which used Bintray to 
   S3 and moved all the CI Mac Minis to Big Sur. We started investigating options
   for the new CI infrastructure.

[#mobile](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/tag/mobile/)

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