Review of Monzo's Android Beta, Release Notes & Use of Labs! 👨‍💻

It’s been just over a month :calendar: I’ve been keeping the Android changelog thread alive and well but I figured I’d revisit the thoughts that I’d posted here and maybe respond to your awesome reply @cookywook :grin:

I love the Android team and everything they do but changelogs are still lacking some classic Monzo awesomeness, if they matched the TestFlight levels of detail then I think it’d be perfect :blush: But sadly it’s not quite there yet :thinking: I’m gonna drop a poll below to see how people feel about them but as an example - I’ve got this evening’s beta changelog:

It’s quite basic, brings back a fun fact though which is always nice :yum:

However this is the changelog that can be constructed after decompiling the app and taking a peak at the real changes :eyes:


For the most part I think that could’ve been pasted into the changelog and published to the play store :grin: Maybe keep locked pots hushed until iOS is ready (assuming it’s not) and then have it roll out after a blog post from Monzo :blush: but besides that I don’t see why the changelogs need to be so cut down - anybody who signed up for the beta channel did so (hopefully) knowingly :joy: so the theory is that they’re just as curious about all the little bits that’ve changed & been fixed between this week and last :smiley:

Heck, I reported a small bug last week:

And @edwoollard fixed it but there was no mention of it anywhere else :eyes: I reckon it would be cool for folks to know, not to the level of “I fixed the capitalisation of Tabs” but certainly things that’re a bit wonky that’re now sorted :blush:

But that’s enough “I” for one post :sweat_smile: Here’s a poll - I wonder how everybody else feels about Android beta changelogs :blush:

  • Keep the changelogs as they are (but add more animal facts :wink:)
  • Add a sensible amount of details (excluding NDA / undready things :eyes:)
  • Post a line-by-line breakdown of every single change :nerd_face:
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