No problem. Also, sometimes you need to be a bit creative with your search, because some apps don’t mention what they are directly in their name (e. g. you need to know that “Whisperfish” is actually a client for “Signal” and so on)
I’m not Jolla, so I cannot really answer here.
But I can totally understand your question, and I also think that this would maybe be a good idea, especially for beginners who want to switch to SailfishOS and want to look which of their apps are available if they switch.
Your only option is to use messenger on browser desktop mode but it’s so damn slow and frustrating you will end end up using the android app or like me, not using messenger entirely on a phone
Maaaany years ago there was a site that was showing the apps from Jolla Store for Jolla-C and if I remember right there was some basic search functionality. No ideas if it is still up and running or if the source code is available and you can make it run for other devices too.
The above mentioned (on TJC) web catalog uses a hardcoded database, so it shows nothing beyond 2017 (when that database was last updated).
The database is part of the github repo under assets/data-top-new.json.
Does anybody have an idea if this database is stored on the phone, too, when I open the Store app? I just spent 10 min searching for it…
Warning the Josh! project mentioned in the previous post uses Yandex metrics. I cloned the project and removed those metrics, but there’s still 3rd party stuff like bootstrap and jquery. Test here if you want: https://dt.iki.fi:2017/
BTW I did find out that the store-client (on the phone) reaches out to https://store-api.jolla.com but nothing more beyond that.
had a long hard look at what happens when I open store-client.
It utilises a lot of info from /home/.zypp-cache, but this does not include images, icons, screenshots.
And I could not find out where that info comes from - I’m guessing from https://store-api.jolla.com/ and if we don’t know how to work that API it’s all for nothing.