description text field in application manifest

[suspicious-pineapple]

Description of the feature you're suggesting.

A field for some short description text in the .fam/application manifest.

Accessible from within flipper by selecting the App and long-pressing the center button.

Either as a single page (limited length), or a full text viewer (markup?) with scrolling (Maybe not ideal, could tempt authors to bloat app size with plaintext).

Possible use cases:

• Instructions (GPIO pins, required hardware)
• Short tutorials for games
• Credits
• GitHub links (especially for Apps that came with a CFW, instead of being installed by the user)

Would make it easier for devs to include this information in simple Apps, without the overhead of adding a help page within the App's code.

And it would improve user experience by making some applications less "cryptic".

Anything else?

No response

[hedger]

We're planning to add application details to app catalog, that's currently WIP.

[suspicious-pineapple]

nice! (is there a list of currently WIP things somewhere?)

[hedger]

So, now we have fap_description in application manifests, and minimal markdown support for apps submitted to app catalog.