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display summary text on app details activity

Michael Pöhn requested to merge uniqx/fdroidclient:summary-design into master

This is a trivial improvement for displaying the summary text of an app (one-line description of an app) as first line in the description block of AppDetailsActivity. This is what this change looks like:

I think this improvement is long overdue, because often the summary is the only available piece of translated text. There's currently NO place in our app where you can go to for reading the entire summary line.

Often search results just let you read the first few words, not the entire summary. For me personally it's very upsetting to read:

  • Free Mobile Netstat - Monitor your Free Mobil...
  • Gotify - A client for push notificati...
  • Presence Publisher - Regularly publish to an...
  • F-Droid Privileged Extension - Services to allow F-Droid to sec...
  • Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) - Quick setting...
  • ...

It's bad UX to let users start reading summary texts and then denying them closure.

In my experience this effect is way worse in German than in English, because that particular language tends to have a lot of rather long words. I'm guessing certain other languages might also be more susceptible than English.

closes #1820 (closed)

Edited by Michael Pöhn

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