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 <[email protected]> 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 unpublished, then submit that to be featured, coordinating the release date 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 > > -- > Dan Garry > Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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