Well, its good to hear that these items are on the radar. It would be nice if we could have an "exclude these categories" option from the All Applications. Also, I'm guessing maybe Google wants to keep this closed for business reasons, but opening some sort of XML API to the market app information would probably result in a ton of community solutions for both desktop and phone searching.
Thanks for the info -Randy On Mar 25, 1:32 pm, Dan Morrill <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, we've also noticed the rise in things like themes/skins and similar > apps. We are looking into some improvements, such as a new category for > themes. (Speaking only for myself, I expected to see us need a category for > books, but this theme phenomenon was a surprise to me. :) > The other things you mentioned (new types of sorting such as by rising > stars, and a desktop/web UI) are also on the roadmap, though we don't have a > timeline for those features yet, or details on how they'll work. > - Dan > > > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:49 AM, mossman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think one of my biggest beefs with android these days is the market > > I wonder if most people use it like I do: > > > Every couple days, I jump in and scroll through all the applications > > sorted by date so that I can see whatever has just been released. > > > Problem is, its getting filled with aHome themes. There really needs > > to be a way to filter it based on stuff I like. The categories are > > alright, but not so great if I want to find all the new apps that > > aren't XYZ. Also, it would be great if there were more sorting options > > like by average rating or "rising stars". Doesn't seem like it would > > be rocket science to add something like this. Though I guess it would > > help even more if I could do some searching of the market from my > > desktop.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
