option one would be my preference, or option two. Option three was what
we effectively had a while a back and was more confusing for developers.
On 17/04/2014 21:27, Wil Clouser wrote:
Hi,
We are hitting a scenario in the apps world which warrants some discussion. The
Marketplace was built to treat the manifest as the ultimate source of truth and
changing your app's name or authors in the manifest would automatically update
it on the Marketplace.
Harald has brought up a couple of use cases a few people are hitting (from bug
991288):
Use Case:
1) Game developer X has a game with a well-known brand "Give me Cookies!".
For the device the name would be too long so they set the "name" in the
manifest to "Cookies!". When submitting the app to Marketplace they want to
use the full name, as there is no space limitation that would require
shortening the name.
2) App studio Iahoo has a weather app. The brand is well known, so for
Marketplace they want it to be titled "Iahoo Weather", but on the device
"Weather" would work better.
Both Apple and Google allow developers to set short and long names on their
stores, so there is some precedent here. From the Marketplace POV, I'd like to
continue to keep the manifest as the source of truth so my first reaction would
be to add an optional "short_name" attribute to the manifest which would be used
on the device in icon grids, but for places where space wasn't an issue (both on
the device and on the Marketplace) we would use the current "name" field.
An obvious alternative to that would be the inverse - we add a "long_name" field
to the manifest and use that in the appropriate places. This may be less work
for the device (I'm not sure) but feels more awkward to me as a developer.
A third option would be to just let developers choose a name in the Marketplace
and ignore the manifest altogether, but that means developers have to maintain a
name in two places and it doesn't help any other marketplaces or websites
displaying apps.
Thoughts? Ideas?
Thanks,
Wil
PS - there is a potential for confusion between inconsistent short and long
names but we have a review process on the Marketplace so I'm mostly ignoring
that aspect for right now.
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