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7.17 Description

A full description of the application, relevant to the latest version. This can span multiple lines (which should be kept to a maximum of 80 characters), and is terminated by a line containing a single ’.’.

Basic MediaWiki-style formatting can be used. Leaving a blank line starts a new paragraph. Surrounding text with '' make it italic, and with ''' makes it bold.

You can link to another app in the repo by using [[app.id]]. The link will be made appropriately whether in the Android client, the web repo browser or the wiki. The link text will be the apps name.

Links to web addresses can be done using [http://example.com Text].

For both of the above link formats, the entire link (from opening to closing square bracket) must be on the same line.

Bulletted lists are done by simply starting each item with a * on a new line, and numbered lists are the same but using #. There is currently no support for nesting lists - you can have one level only.

It can be helpful to note information pertaining to updating from an earlier version; whether the app contains any prebuilts built by the upstream developers or whether non-free elements were removed; whether the app is in rapid development or whether the latest version lags behind the current version; whether the app supports multiple architectures or whether there is a maximum SDK specified (such info not being recorded in the index).

This is converted to (<desc>) in the public index file.


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