That works well with what Bernd said about wanting to
submit the app for a
UX review first. We can round off these features while waiting for UX
review to get back to us, see what we make of the UX review, then submit
for featured.
Thoughts on that plan of action?
Dan
On 22 August 2014 18:24, Dmitry Brant <dbrant(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
This is great to hear!
As happy as I am with the current state of the app, I would definitely
wait to complete some of the features we're currently working on before
having it featured (full-text search being highest on the list, and maybe
even Nearby?)
-Dmitry
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,
On Wednesday, Katherine, Tomasz and I met with Joe Castorena from
Google’s Android Play Partnerships team. I’ve split up the most relevant
information into a few separate emails, to keep the discussion on each
separate point focussed.
Joe informed us of the process for getting featured in Google Play. The
long and short of it is that once we decide we’ve got a build that’s worth
featuring, we upload it to Google Play and contact Joe. There is a board at
Google that makes the decision about whether or not to feature an app and
that decision is multifactorial, including factors like what other apps are
featured at that time and whether it fits with the current theme of the
store (e.g. “Back to School”, etc.). We made need to make some tweaks to
get it featured (e.g. he said they might say something like “Make the app
more tablet-friendly and we can feature it”), and we’d be informed of what
those were.
We’ve got a choice with how we proceed with this:
1. We submit the current form of the production build to be
featured.
2. We wait to finish some of the current threads of work (e.g.
wrapping up page issues and disambiguation), upload and hold that build
unpublished, then submit that to be featured, coordinating the release date
with Joe.
I have a mild preference for option 2 as then we can coordinate the
release of the new features with the featuring, and get more bang for our
buck. That said, I am extremely proud of the app that we have out there
right now, so I would be more than happy to submit to be featured if that’s
the consensus.
Thoughts?
Dan
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation
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