Hi Dan -- did you get a chance to write up your findings?
thanks,
-Toby
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'll be eager to see you guys write up your findings after the spikes are
over.
thanks for moving that forward.
--tomasz
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:05 AM, Gautam Chandna gaut...@opera.com wrote:
OEMs care about the size of their OS, as this is stored in a restricted
read-only area (unless a device is rooted). Once the device is running,
those limitations don't apply as an app has tons of space to update
itself.
Quite like the network installer concept for desktop applications, OEMs
prefer if the pre-install is a small package that in itself doesn't
necessarily do much other than download the real app.
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Yuri Astrakhan
yastrak...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Don't preload apps still get over-the-air updates, often the whole app
re-download?
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Carolynne Schloeder
cschloe...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi, yes app size and yes optimization :-)
App size does matter
OEM's are sensitive to the size of the app for preload. They were
satisfied with our last version that was under 3MB; we'll find out
what they
will tolerate. And we will likely push appstore promotion as part of
our
deep dive.[1]
Couple of thoughts on optimization:
Yuri already worked to compress images on mobile web, only deployed on
zero partners so far. Rolling out the image compression could be an
easy
start to reduce the page load.
In a couple of weeks, we will get into Facebook/Ericsson's network
simulation lab in Menlo Park, where we can experience our UX on low end
devices and slow networks.
Dan and Maryana, can you help me organize who should go to the lab?
Thanks --
Carolynne
[1] The Wikipedia Zero team is getting together with product, UX, comms
and GLEE to go deep in one country, to understand the context for
Wikipedia
usage and how we can unlock growth in underserved market segments -
beyond
just making data free. More info in our QR notes.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On 1 February 2015 at 14:48, Toby Negrin tneg...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Dan -- can you please limit the scope to sizing the android app? I
think that's more relevant to reaching people in the developing
world.
I think that depends. In a world where we're focussing on preloads,
the
size of the app is pretty immaterial as the user isn't paying the
cost for
downloading it. In that world, the best optimisations to make are
probably
reducing network traffic and improving performance on slower devices,
things
where there's lot of room for improvement in our code base. Also, our
Android app is also an order of magnitude smaller than Facebook's
Android
app, so that's less of an issue for us. Facebook evidently decided to
TACKLE
ALL THE THINGS with Facebook Lite.
Also, can you see what percent of our GS traffic uses 2.3? Google has
it at about 10% globally but we need to understand our target market
better.
You might also want to check in with your new contact at App Annie
to see if
they have useful GS data.
Absolutely.
Dan
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Wikimedia Foundation
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skype: cschloeder
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