That sounds excellent! These are some truly exciting opportunities. (Regarding having our code featured in tutorials, the code might need a little combing-through, and a little more TLC, but still -- a fantastic idea.)
-Dmitry On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[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 unpublished, then submit that to be featured, coordinating the release 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 >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Dan Garry > Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps > Wikimedia Foundation >
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