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Very slick app, but discovery on Android can be tough.

Shoot me an email, aschobel (at) catch.com and I can put you in touch with our Google Developer advocates, you definitely want to get featured.

What are you thinking of using for online sync/backup? RTM? Google lets you backup blobs using BackupManager, might be worth looking into.

Good luck!

I've always wondered how they chose their featured apps. Any more insight?

You need to contact them and they have a team decide if they will feature you.

They look at how closely you follow the Android HIG, level of polish in the app, have you been recently featured, etc.

We also send them beta version of our apps and they give us great feedback.

Thank you! I was wondering how that works even though I have contributed some bug fixes to the android sdk before...

Is there a google page with the addy to send the betas ?

Once again thanks for the info

shrug I haven't seen any online page to send betas and such.

Meet a few of the dev advocates at IO, SXSW, and a bunch of the Android events around SF.

I just found another way.. several of my Angel VC contacts are friendly with Google Android Dev Advocates..

Wow thanks! I'll send you an email right now.