The centralized app cat is currently privileged in the UI; could use of locally-stored and peer-shared apps be made more convenient?
On android version there is an experimental setting to choose the “appstore” url.
android just embeds a website, desktop loads the JSON repository file directly.
I believe we need to decide on an unified way of doing it, so that users can just put in the same url on desktop and android and it works on both platforms.
However it is done internally, the URL to the store should be the same on all platforms (regardless of whether they use the web app or the repo json file directly).
But core team has different priories at the current time, so I would not expect that to be a focus soon, so for now I would go with just downloading and sending the files manually.
peer-shared apps be made more convenient?
iOS has a tab for “last used apps” in the app picker, which means apps that were sent or received by you previously.