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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion fastlane/metadata-lite/android/all/title.txt
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OpenDocument Reader
OpenDocument Reader - view ODT
22 changes: 13 additions & 9 deletions fastlane/metadata/README.md
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## The two things the apps do not share

**The title.** Play has served `OpenDocument Reader Pro` in every storefront for
years, and lite `OpenDocument Reader`. Neither is translated: OpenDocument is the
format's own name, and one name is one app people can pass to each other. Nothing
is lost to search by it - play indexes the title, the short description and the
full description alike, so `LibreOffice` and the local words live in the short
description, where there is room for them.

Play refuses a title over 30 characters. The ones that used to be checked in here
were written when the limit was 50 and eleven of the fifteen were over it.
**The title.** Pro is `OpenDocument Reader Pro`, lite `OpenDocument Reader - view
ODT`. Neither is translated: OpenDocument is the format's own name, and one name is
one app people can pass to each other - lite says what it opens after the name, not
instead of it.

**Play refuses a title over 30 characters, and lite's is exactly 30.** So a word
added to it has to take one out, and pro has no room for the same tail at all:
`OpenDocument Reader Pro - view ODT` is 34. `scripts/store-listing.py` measures
both before an upload rather than letting Play refuse the release.

The rest of what a search should find goes in the short description, which play
indexes just as it does the title: `LibreOffice`, and each language's own words for
a document, live there, where there is room for them.

**Advertising.** Pro links no ad SDK and shows none, but every description said
ads were shown, in all fifteen languages. Rather than keep two descriptions per
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