Posted by Georgia Doyle, Senior UX Author and Content material Designer, and Kanu Tibrewal, Software program Engineer
We’ve launched a brand new Save for later characteristic on Google Play Console’s Publishing overview to offer you extra management over while you ship modifications for assessment.
Prior to now, modifications to your app had been bundled collectively earlier than being despatched for assessment. This offered challenges when you wanted to reprioritize modifications, or if the modifications had been now not related. For instance, updates to your take a look at tracks grouped with advertising and marketing modifications that must be rescheduled. This lack of flexibility meant that if some modifications had been prepared for assessment however not others, you could possibly find yourself delaying pressing fixes, or publishing modifications that you simply weren’t fairly able to make.
Now, you’ve got the power to carry again the modifications you’re not able to have reviewed.
The way it works
Within the ‘Adjustments not but despatched for assessment’ part of the Publishing overview web page, choose ‘Save for later’ on the teams of modifications that you simply don’t need to embody in your subsequent assessment. You’ll be able to view and edit the checklist of saved modifications, and return them to the Publishing overview when you change your thoughts. As soon as the assessment has began, your saved modifications shall be added again to ‘Adjustments not but despatched for assessment’.
Integration with our pre-review checks
- If points are remoted to a person monitor, we’ll present you an error beside that change, so you already know what to avoid wasting for later to be able to proceed to assessment together with your different modifications.
- You probably have points that have an effect on your complete app, for instance, App content material points, Save for later shall be unavailable and you will want to repair them earlier than you possibly can ship any modifications for assessment.
Better flexibility in your workflows
Our objective for Save for later is to offer you larger flexibility over your launch schedule. With this characteristic you possibly can handle what modifications you ship for assessment, and tackle points affecting particular person tracks with out holding up ready-to-release modifications, so you possibly can iterate quicker and reduce the influence of rejections in your launch timeline.
We’re dedicated to constantly bettering your publishing expertise. Save for later is a major step in direction of offering you with extra granular management over this all-important stage within the journey to publishing your app. We’ll proceed to assemble your suggestions and have a look at methods we are able to present larger flexibility to the assessment and publishing course of.
We’re excited to see how Save for later lets you streamline your launch course of and produce your app improvements to customers even quicker.
