Yesterday, 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.

Tomasz put forward the idea of using the Wikipedia app as a code tutorial. Have you ever been on the Android help pages online and seen code snippets? Tomasz suggested that since our app is totally open source, they could actually use living examples from the Wikipedia app on those pages if they wanted. It’d be good PR and branding for them to use the Wikipedia app as an example, and it would expose our code base to a much larger group of people, and specifically those people would be developers!

This idea is obviously in its infancy, but I think we should definitely try to push forward on this. Many thanks to Tomasz for suggesting this.

Thanks,
Dan

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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation