New app doesn't show in latest app and is not marked as new
- Device OS and version: Android 13, Graphene
- Device model/manufacturer: Pixel 7
- F-Droid version (in the About screen): FDroid 1.16.3 and Fdroid-Basic 1.16.3-alpha5
- F-Droid privileged extension version (if installed): no
What did you do? (clear steps if possible)
Submitted a new app. Package name is "ardash.lato". Followed the advice on https://f-droid.org/en/2019/03/26/the-latest-tab-now-highlights-good-descriptions.html and asked in Matrix about it.
What did you expect to see?
The new app showing in the "latest apps" and being marked as "new" app.
What did you see instead?
The new app can only be found when I explicitly use the search.
Possible errors:
- The app shows no icon and has no icon.png in the metadata. I added one to the next release v1.1.3 to see if that is the problem.
- The app has no translated screenshots, that is however, because there is simply no text on the screenshots
- The instructions on https://f-droid.org/en/2019/03/26/the-latest-tab-now-highlights-good-descriptions.html are simply wrong/unclear/incomplete.
- The app has no translations as of now. That would be an error, since this app simply has no translatable text. The app is a game and is suitable from 3 years onward. You don't need to read text to play it, at least not in the current version. However, apps for babies and toddlers should not be discriminated for not having text.
However, the metadata, description, changelogs is translated in over 40 languages.
Looking at the relevant code change in the F-Droid client
It looks like non-english people are also being discriminated and the localisation-thing seems to be the issue.
The only quick fix I can think of (if 4. is the issue) would be to add unnecessary and unused translation files. I can also add duplicated screenshots. But I don't see how that improves the quality of apps being shown to the user.