AppDF Specification Update. Version 0.94

[Vassili Philippov]

I have updated the AppDF specification. Here is the change list:

• Option to have multiple description.xml files inside one AppDF archive for localization purposes is removed. All localizations must be included in the main description.xml file.
• APK file extension support is removed because only Google Play supports this technology today and any application that uses APK extension files will not work in any of the alternative Android application stores.
• Now it is required for the first title to be 30 symbols or shorter (before requirement was that some of the titles is 30 symbols or shorter).
• Now it is required for the first short description to be 80 symbols or shorter (before requirement was that some of the short description is 80 symbols or shorter).
• Currency attribute is removed from the description.xml tag, now only country is defined in XML and currency is automatically detected using the predefined country currencies table.
• Links to the country and currency lists are added to the local price description section.
• <gambling-refference> tag is renamed to <gambling-reference> (misstype in tag name is fixed).
• Links to the country and language lists are added to the description localization section.
• html and featureless attributes are removed from the <full-description> tag.
• Only one copy of <full-description> tag can be presented (before it was possible to have multiple <full-description> tags).
• A special <features> section is added as an option inside the <full-description> tag to allow product description that contain the feature list but do not duplicate it on the stores that have a separate feature list.
• <import-export> tag is added to the <consent> section in order to support Amazon AppStore.
• language attribute is removed from the <description> tag. Now default description is always in English US.

I have updated the corresponding XSD file. We also need to update the samples, parsers and generators accordingly.

Best regards,

Vassili