Any idea if the source will be posted online on their github <a href="https://github.com/Khan" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Khan</a> ?<p>Khanacademy is a non-profit but when it comes to licensing they are closer to for-profit business licenses in that don't allow commercial derivative like wikipedia does. I love what they do though.
It's amazing to see how far Khan Academy has evolved over the past few years from it's days as a simple gallery of YouTube links. I also think Khan Academy is a great example of the importance of structure and organization in learning. You could probably find all of the same material scattered all over the web, including the KA videos themselves, but the structure, tracking and assessments add immense value to the material.
Glad to see Khan Academy supporting Android! This is definitely the better way to reach the majority of the world at the moment.<p>Would really love to see AndroidTV / AppleTV apps too!
This is amazing. I blame the successful completion of my classes in post secondary and high school thanks to Khan Academy. In retrospect, I could've done better by staying at home watching khan academy and using mooc and open source than going to most of my classes.<p>School does kinda resemble prison [1].<p>[1]:
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Not actually related to the android app, but I was a bit confused as to what this would be other than just a video player. I hadn't seen the Khan Academy since it was a collection of maths videos. <i>Wow</i>. I've been playing with the coding tutorials, and it's incredible. My wife has been learning with codeacademy but the tutorials there are oddly restrictive in what they allow, and have a bunch of problems with code that should (but doesn't) or code that doesn't (but should) work.<p>Listening to someone explain their code, being able to pause it and modify the code and see the changes immediately (and helpful error messages if you bork it) then hitting play and having it go back to a sensible state is incredible.
Funny to realize I had the urge to have an Android app for Khan Academy just today, took the time to search and got into their Tester program, used it the whole day and now I've found they just released it officially.<p>That's great news, they've been doing a really awesome job evolving their business and it's great to see now they are expanding even more, an Android app was really something they've been missing for a long time.
What possible reason is there not to open the source for these apps?<p>There could be so many contributions and innovations from people who want to help with the code.
Any way to share content between devices? Or have a central repository of content on a LAN that you can download to your device? An Android app with content sharing could enable a great offline Khan Academy experience in places without high-speed internet.