[FeatureRequest] Show time since an app was last updated by developer

[Saarsk]

Hi, while trying this nice app I found that it's missing an important essential feature. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Why?

• Conveys the likely state of a given project: whether it's maintained, updated for your Android version, security updates, feature parity, bug fixes etc.
  • Important context for comparing apps, at a glance. Easy to separate good and bad candidates.

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F-Droid's situation:

• Shows this information on an app's page. For this reason alone, I use F-Droid for searching.

Droid-ify's current situation:

• Lacks the feature
• Sometimes, you can look up the information if there's version history. It's not a good work-around:
  • Unreliable: Version history is not always present.
  • Time-consuming and tedious: going back and forth (while stacking up various information in your head for comparison). If a feature is tedious or hidden away, users just avoid it altogether as people seek the path of least resistance.
  • Date is not in ISO 8601 format: Is confusing for EU users (US format can be misinterpreted: month and day are swapped, not chronologically formatted).

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Proposed solution:

• Show relative time since last update for each respective app. Implemented in the following places (in order of priority):
  • 1. In search results: e.g. "14m" or "14 months".
    • If there's a desire for polishing (not a priority), text can be accompanied by an icon. For consistency the icon should correlate with the icon used for "sort by update recency".
    • If necessary due to horisontal space limitation, it should replace version number. Version number is arbitrary information for a user. Its usefulness is low without the context of the respective app's versioning system and version history. Time since last update is more useful.
  • 2. In app page: e.g. "Last updated 14 months ago".
  • 3. In categories/manual navigation: The same benefits applies here.
  • 4. In "installed apps list":
    • Useful for quickly identifying old apps that are no longer updated or no longer wanted.
    • As apps pile up, it can be daunting to go through them to tidy up. So people tend to let the mess pile up.
    • Can be useful identifying repositories which are either deprecated or outdated.

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If there's something you want me to clarify, improve upon or reformat I'll be happy to make changes to the issue. :slightly_smiling_face:

[CloneWith]

Show relative time since last update for each respective app.

That's a good idea! Some extra information can also be shown below the application name and description. For example:

[Icon] Application ⚠️ (when has negative features)
...... Description
🕘 Today 🗄️ Category 👤 Developer

Where the emojis can be replaced to icons of Material UI.