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 function on Google Play Console’s Publishing overview to provide you extra management over if you ship adjustments for overview.
Prior to now, adjustments to your app have been bundled collectively earlier than being despatched for overview. This offered challenges in the event you wanted to reprioritize adjustments, or if the adjustments have been not related. For instance, updates to your check tracks grouped with advertising and marketing adjustments that should be rescheduled. This lack of flexibility meant that if some adjustments have been prepared for overview however not others, you can find yourself delaying pressing fixes, or publishing adjustments that you just weren’t fairly able to make.
Now, you’ve gotten the flexibility to carry again the adjustments you’re not able to have reviewed.
The way it works
Within the ‘Adjustments not but despatched for overview’ part of the Publishing overview web page, choose ‘Save for later’ on the teams of adjustments that you just don’t need to embody in your subsequent overview. You may view and edit the checklist of saved adjustments, and return them to the Publishing overview in the event you change your thoughts. As soon as the overview has began, your saved adjustments might be added again to ‘Adjustments not but despatched for overview’.
Integration with our pre-review checks
- If points are remoted to a person observe, we’ll present you an error beside that change, so you understand what to avoid wasting for later as a way to proceed to overview along with your different adjustments.
- If in case you have points that have an effect on your entire app, for instance, App content material points, Save for later might be unavailable and you will have to repair them earlier than you’ll be able to ship any adjustments for overview.
Better flexibility in your workflows
Our purpose for Save for later is to provide you better flexibility over your launch schedule. With this function you’ll be able to handle what adjustments you ship for overview, and tackle points affecting particular person tracks with out holding up ready-to-release adjustments, so you’ll be able to iterate sooner and decrease the influence of rejections in your launch timeline.
We’re dedicated to repeatedly enhancing your publishing expertise. Save for later is a big step in the direction of offering you with extra granular management over this all-important stage within the journey to publishing your app. We’ll proceed to collect your suggestions and have a look at methods we are able to present better flexibility to the overview and publishing course of.
We’re excited to see how Save for later lets you streamline your launch course of and convey your app improvements to customers even sooner.