We launched Pots on iOS last Monday, and in the announcement on our blog said Android users could expect them at the start of this week. Unfortunately, thereās been a bit of a delay in bringing them to Android, and Pots will now make it into the Play Store next week. Sorry!
In the interests of transparency, I thought itād be worth briefly breaking down why.
At Monzo, we use release trains to manage the development of our iOS and Android apps. That means that every other Wednesday, there is a ācode freezeā. The product is then tested internally and, after we determine that everythingās working well, we push the new release out to a small proportion of users via TestFlight on iOS, and our Beta channel on Android. If bugs are flagged as part of this testing, we work to get them fixed, before we bring the release to 100% of users. @JordanFish is writing a blog post thatāll be up soon too for those interested in the details of this
Pots didnāt make it into the latest Android release train at the last minute unfortunately, but weāre working hard to make sure theyāll be in the next one. That means they will go out to the Beta channel for testing at the end of this week, before coming to 100% of Android users next week (assuming nothing horrible happens!)
To make it up to you, weāve also added some new functionality, that wasnāt available in the initial iOS release: youāll be able to deposit and withdraw custom amounts from pots!
Thanks so much for bearing with us, I promise theyāll be worth the wait!