Crowd Sourced Application Tags

[XVicarious]

I'm not sure exactly how minimalist the goal is, and if this suggestion goes beyond your goals, but crowd-sourcing tags for applications would be a neat idea. There already are some applications (pre-installed) that get tags, but it would be great if other apps got tags also.

[ntninja]

Adding this probably wouldn't be a huger burden in terms minimalism then the many translations we already have (almost half our final .apk size is translations currently). We'd need some way to make it easy for (non-technical) users to contribute tags for different apps and languages through.

One possible way would be to add some mapping (in code or as a resource) somewhere that contains all the currently known apps, as well as a string-resource ID for each, then do the translations using the current translation system. This would unfortunately imply that registering a new app requires a reviewed PR (since its a code change) – something that most users would probably not attempt to do for a variety of reasons. Putting the burden of tagging on the translators also seems a bit wrong (hard to tag an app that you've never heard of before).

Otherwise we'd need a custom – KISS specific – solution (probably some kind of web-app).

@Neamar: Any thoughts on the above analysis?

[EnricoMonese]

Maybe when (if) the plugin-thing system will be implemented something like this would become easier. For example translations could be plugins, so the main app won't require as much space

[Neamar]

@alexander255 you summed it up pretty well -- it can be added to the strings files, but it will make translation harder for a lot of person.

Do you have examples for apps that could greatly benefit from this tagging system?

[XVicarious]

Greatly benefit? I'm not sure.

I know for example the American Express app is called "Amex Mobile" and I constantly find myself trying to search for "American" or "Express". Or Fire Emblem: Heroes is "FE Heroes". These aren't huge deals, but having the tags would be a QOL improvement. Especially because I flash semi regularly.

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Do you have examples for apps that could greatly benefit from this tagging system?

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[Neamar]

Not sure this was already live by the time of this issue, but you can now add custom tags to all apps.

Closing