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Commit 559c9bb6 authored by Manoj Nair's avatar Manoj Nair
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Merge branch '1066-update-content-in-applounge-guide' into 'master' 

Resolve "Update content in AppLounge guide"

Closes #1066

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htdocs/_i18n/en/pages/support_topics/app_lounge.md

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@@ -82,6 +82,26 @@ App Lounge provides all of them: 
-	Search feature to find the app you are looking for,

-	App detail page with all the information regarding the app, including some privacy related ones.



### Delivering /e/OS default applications' update



Delivering updates for /e/OS default applications through App Lounge enables users to receive them as soon as they are available, without awaiting the next OS update.

At present, the following default apps can be updated through App Lounge:



- Account Manager

- AppLounge

- Calendar

- eDrive

- Notes

- Mail

- BlissWeather

- BlissLauncher



Additional default apps could be added to this list in the future.



### No-Google mode



App Lounge has an optional mode that allows users to fetch only open-source applications and PWAs. This reduces the catalog size but gives some peace of mind to people concerned about any network connections made to Google servers, even anonymized ones.



## What’s next?



App Lounge is already bringing great improvements in /e/OS but we don’t want to stop there. We plan to keep improving the service and make it more efficient and useful.
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With the same idea we had for commercial application, we are working on fetching Open Source applications directly “from the source”. One of the challenges will  be to handle alternative F-Droid repositories, that are sometimes more up-to-date than the official one.



### Delivering /e/OS default applications update



Delivering /e/OS default application updates via App Lounge would allow users to receive updates as soon as they are ready, without waiting for the next OS update.



### No-Google mode



We are working on an App Lounge optional mode which would allow users to fetch only Open Source applications and PWAs. This would reduce the catalog size, but would give some peace of mind to people concerned by any network connections made to Google servers, even anonymized ones.



### Improved Privacy Score