'Market' app suggestion

Aaron Williamson aaron at copiesofcopies.org
Fri Oct 22 17:12:52 UTC 2010


On 10/22/2010 10:52 AM, Ciaran Gultnieks wrote:
> Yes - as much as possible comes out of the APK, and the rest from
> additional metadata files that are designed to be human-friendly (i.e.
> NOT XML).
> 
> A python script does the job of extracting the data from those two
> sources, merging it together, collating the APK versions to their
> associated applications and building the index file.

Ok, thanks for explaining.  I think that ultimately it would be nice to allow
developers (and maybe randoms) to upload apps via a web interface and enter all
of the metadata we can't extract from the APK, and then have someone moderate
submissions on the backend.


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