Become a tester of the Android app
The Android app is ready, but Google only releases it after a test with at least 12 people who keep it installed for 14 days. If you help, the app ships sooner. It takes three minutes now and a few openings along the way.
What you need
- an Android phone;
- a Google account, that is a Gmail address or another address registered as a Google account;
- 14 days with the app installed, opening it now and then even for a minute.
Nothing to pay, no advertising and no data asked from us: you sign up on Google's own pages, not here.
The steps, in order
Join the testers group. It is a Google Group whose only job is telling Google Play who may download the test build. Open it with the same Google account you use on your phone and press Join group.
Open the test link and press Become a tester. That is the confirmation Google needs.
Install Passa il bus from the Play Store link on that same page.
Keep it installed for 14 days and open it now and then. Look at the map, search your line, open a stop: that is what Google checks before clearing us.
If something is wrong, tell us. One line to supporto@passailbus.it is worth more than ten stars.
1. Join the group 2. Open the test on Google Play
If something does not work
Google Play says "Item not found" or "Try again". That is normal in the first hour: Google takes a while to register that you joined the group. Wait and try later, without joining again.
The test link says you are not authorised. You are using a different Google account from the one that joined the group. Check the account in the top right corner.
The app does not show up in the Play Store. Open the Play Store, tap your picture in the top right and check the account matches the one in the group.
What happens next
When the test is over and Google clears us, the app becomes public and your copy updates by itself: nothing to uninstall, nothing to redo. You can leave the test whenever you like, but please tell us, so we can find someone else: if the group drops below 12 people the count starts again from zero.
I have an iPhone
Then you are already set: the iPhone app is published on the App Store. The test is only for the Android version.