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Web App Manifest - Application Information
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Add F-Droid platform #24

Closed toby3d closed 3 years ago

toby3d commented 3 years ago

F-Droid has supported the distribution of open source application builds for the past 10 years. Perhaps we should include it in the list of supported manifest platforms?

aarongustafson commented 3 years ago

Moving to the App Info Spec

aarongustafson commented 3 years ago

@toby3d F-Droid looks like an app catalog as opposed to an app platform. Is that right?

toby3d commented 3 years ago

F-Droid looks like an app catalog as opposed to an app platform. Is that right?

I could be wrong, as I'm not in the mobile app development and distribution business, but no. It's not just a catalog of apps, but also a platform for delivering them, checking builds, and so on.

aarongustafson commented 3 years ago

F-Droid looks like an app catalog as opposed to an app platform. Is that right?

I could be wrong, as I'm not in the mobile app development and distribution business, but no. It's not just a catalog of apps, but also a platform for delivering them, checking builds, and so on.

As it is not an operating system, however, F-Droid isn’t really a candidate for use in platform because screenshots would not be different for that vs. another Android, for example. We’re also going to be recommending authors use platform in a more generic sense (e.g., "narrow" vs. "wide") rather than using the specific platform on which the screenshot was taken. The OS-specific platform values should only be used if absolutely necessary (e.g., screenshot of a feature only available on ChromeOS).