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:

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.

Unless there are any objections, I will submit our current production build for UX review on Wednesday 3rd September 2014. Once that review is complete, we can take a look at their feedback to see how much work is in there, and set a hard deadline. If we finish our work before that hard deadline, cool, we can submit forthwith! If not, then we submit on the hard deadline irrespective of how done we are. Dan On 28 August 2014 20:14, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

Unless there are any objections, I will submit our current production build for UX review on Wednesday 3rd September 2014. Once that review is complete, we can take a look at their feedback to see how much work is in there, and set a hard deadline. If we finish our work before that hard deadline, cool, we can submit forthwith! If not, then we submit on the hard deadline irrespective of how done we are. Dan On 28 August 2014 20:14, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

Exciting On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: at see work we wrote:

Dan Garry, 15/09/2014 22:28: Nice. https://trello.com/b/fuDbiOqN/mobile-app-sprint-40-android-insert-theme-9-15 Couldn't find anything there, unless it's https://trello.com/c/DpHf0vu0/4-1-add-xxxhdpi-launcher-icon Nemo _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

That's so great! :) On Aug 22, 2014, at 3:44 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 -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l