# New layout app store **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Suggestions\ **Created:** [November 12, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610 "2019-11-12T18:34:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![0burner0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/0/90ced4/32.png) [@0burner0](https://community.homey.app/u/0burner0)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/1 "2019-11-12T18:34:14Z")
I like the update for the layout, but what I realy mis is what apps are new in the store. In the old store I always looked at the new possebilitys for Homey. ---
**Author:** ![Rocodamelshekima](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rocodamelshekima/32/8209_2.png) [@Rocodamelshekima](https://community.homey.app/u/Rocodamelshekima)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/2 "2019-11-12T19:00:25Z")
My best bet will be that it’s not done yet? ---
**Author:** ![0burner0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/0/90ced4/32.png) [@0burner0](https://community.homey.app/u/0burner0)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/4 "2019-11-12T20:56:14Z")
@Rocodamelshekima I’m not seeing a beta sign, but i hope that youre right and IT is nog ready. @RoyWissenburg Ehh that expression doesn’t make anny sense in this situation. But you live in Holland, do you ever hear of freedom of speeche? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Cactus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/le_cactus/32/9727_2.png) [@Le\_Cactus](https://community.homey.app/u/Le_Cactus)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/6 "2019-11-12T22:46:38Z")
> [@RoyWissenburg](#): > > “wat de boer niet kent, dat vreet die niet” a dutch expression. > > its something what isnt familiar, so its on forehand bad. > > Its just a few hours online, and already start complaning. > Give it some time, to get used to it 🤨 Have you actually tried the new site/page? Did you try searching for an app? Searching for the exact name of an app doesn’t show a link to the app. The only way now to find an app is use google. And when you get to the app a link to the github sources isn’t available anymore. You now can choose from a total 25 apps, or you must know of an app and use google to find it. What did they expect? We would embrace the new look and think it’s progress? Sure maybe it gets better in time, but the site in it’s current state should have never been released. Most of us are open to changes (I think) , but only if it’s a change for the better, not if it 4 steps back. ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 7:14am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/8 "2019-11-13T07:14:01Z")
> [@RoyWissenburg](#): > > Its stil under maintence No it’s not, it’s online. It offers me to search for apps. If it’s not ready yet, it shouldn’t be online. ---
**Author:** ![Marcel\_Ubels](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcel_ubels/32/18860_2.png) [@Marcel\_Ubels](https://community.homey.app/u/Marcel_Ubels)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 8:59am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/9 "2019-11-13T08:59:45Z")
This is just stupid. The only way to install an app is with the app store. The new app store does not work. This is just stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Jo\_San](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jo_san/32/3732_2.png) [@Jo\_San](https://community.homey.app/u/Jo_San)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 9:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/10 "2019-11-13T09:02:43Z")
As far as I know, when adding a device for which the app is not yet installed, the installation will be done from within the Homey app (seems to still work). That said, the app store should of course work. Seems only Athom apps can be found at this moment. ---
**Author:** ![Jo\_San](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jo_san/32/3732_2.png) [@Jo\_San](https://community.homey.app/u/Jo_San)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 9:26am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/12 "2019-11-13T09:26:32Z")
I think a lot of complaints (on this subject, but also other) can be prevented by basic communication. There is an _announcements_ part in this forum, the forum is owned by Athom. A simple announcement from them on changes like these would probably prevent a topic or ten being opened on each change. ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/13 "2019-11-13T09:27:09Z")
I very often use the app store website to find apps and their repositories so I can help out people here on the forum. Now I can’t find half of the apps anymore. Even less incentive for me to help out others. ---
**Author:** ![Jo\_San](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jo_san/32/3732_2.png) [@Jo\_San](https://community.homey.app/u/Jo_San)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 9:30am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/14 "2019-11-13T09:30:26Z")
Totally agree with you, it should of course just work. My comment was more for those that did think that apps/devices can only be installed via the app store. ---
**Author:** ![Jamie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jamie/32/5274_2.png) [@Jamie](https://community.homey.app/u/Jamie)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/15 "2019-11-13T13:20:21Z")
Try the Homey app - while as the blog article says , the app store gets indexed. Though I got to say - seems to be working fine for me now. ---
**Author:** ![Maurits](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/maurits/32/8884_2.png) [@Maurits](https://community.homey.app/u/Maurits)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/16 "2019-11-13T13:53:33Z")
Still missing the option to just show all apps. To like browse and look for new things … There are so much brands and sometimes i scroll trough the apps to checkout a product that i never heard of ---
**Author:** ![Martijn\_Hoogenbosch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martijn_hoogenbosch/32/10647_2.png) [@Martijn\_Hoogenbosch](https://community.homey.app/u/Martijn_Hoogenbosch)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/17 "2019-11-13T14:28:26Z")
Well, there is still a lot of work to do. Besides a way to just browse trough the apps, the current apps still haven’t fully been indexed yet. Searching for Fibaro (which is in the populair section) doesn’t find anything. Searching for ‘klik’ doesn’t find anything, searching for klika, it finds the 2 apps. But ‘klik a’ doesn’t find anything. How should a user know what to search for? There must be smarter ways to work with this. ---
**Author:** ![tweaqie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tweaqie/32/13906_2.png) [@tweaqie](https://community.homey.app/u/tweaqie)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/18 "2019-11-13T14:57:48Z")
+1 for newest apps, it used to be my first go to overview in the app store. Can’t do without it so please bring it back. ---
**Author:** ![Mario\_Me](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mario_me/32/12703_2.png) [@Mario\_Me](https://community.homey.app/u/Mario_Me)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 1:25am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/19 "2019-11-14T01:25:13Z")
Need to confess that w/ the new layout Athom finally entered the 21st century of UI. Congrats. Really like the look and feel. Though it’s not yet working flawless and too much a intransparent and tooooo much useless „Google on-Site search“ when showing the results - I hope they’ll cut it down very narrow to the very basics and not try to cover all at once (it may fail, believe me!!) ---
**Author:** ![Techniman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/techniman/32/8654_2.png) [@Techniman](https://community.homey.app/u/Techniman)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 11:58am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/20 "2019-11-14T11:58:06Z")
I often use the github link to see how an app is working and sometimes tweak it, since the link is no longer there this will be a problem. I just filled out a feature request for adding this back, in case you agree please do the same: > **[Feature request for Homey](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8j_GfID4adV4w5ogNtIX1-AqVWrkgIo3bOjkoNtqlHMM0xw/viewform)** > > If you have a feature request for Homey you can request this feature here. (we will do our best to include all request in the Homey software, but requesting a new feature does not automatically mean that it will be added in a future update) > > Please... ---
**Author:** ![Caseda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/caseda/32/138695_2.png) [@Caseda](https://community.homey.app/u/Caseda)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/21 "2019-11-14T12:00:41Z")
There is no need to ask for support, as it is done on purpose, from the [blogpost:](https://homey.app/en-us/blog/the-new-homey-app-store/) > **Open source** > Apps can now be open source, but don’t have to anymore. When you want to share the source, add a _source_ property in your _app.json_ . So it is up to the developer to add the source to its app.json And became opt-in, instead of (a difficult) opt-out ---
**Author:** ![Techniman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/techniman/32/8654_2.png) [@Techniman](https://community.homey.app/u/Techniman)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/22 "2019-11-14T12:25:55Z")
IMHO it should’ve been the other way around, your app source will be published unless you add an optional “show\_source : false” to app.json ---
**Author:** ![Caseda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/caseda/32/138695_2.png) [@Caseda](https://community.homey.app/u/Caseda)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/23 "2019-11-14T12:50:09Z")
They apparently had a good reason we don’t know of, and probably won’t get to know, for doing it this way. But yes, if enough people agree/mention it will probably change to opt-out. Unless their own reason is more solid of course. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_B](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martin_b/32/8091_2.png) [@Martin\_B](https://community.homey.app/u/Martin_B)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610/24 "2019-11-14T15:51:57Z")
In this form the app website is very bad now U MUST KNOW HOW youre app must be CALLED other wise u cant find it, and that very BAD. [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/new-layout-app-store/20610.md?page=2)