The time commitment (any participation for heuristic evaluation) expected from us but it sounds like a great platform for reach, we should do it.
Usually their feedback is about improving existing stuff and not adding new features. Having lead images and the disambig/ page issues in the build we submit to them would be super useful.

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Vibha Bamba
Senior Designer | WMF Design








On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Monte Hurd <mhurd@wikimedia.org> wrote:
That's so great! :) 

On Aug 22, 2014, at 3:44 PM, Dan Garry <dgarry@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some of the current threads of work (e.g. wrapping up page issues and disambiguation), upload and hold that build unpublished, then submit that to be featured, coordinating the release date with Joe.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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