Creating a better play store for cancer apps by using the meta data. Is the metadata available enough to improve app finding for apps related to cancer?

Abstract

The current app store is minimalistic and gives a minimum of functionality, there are in principle two options, a list of recommended apps and the search function. Where the search function is as good as the user is able to come up with search words. The question then is; is it possible to create a third party app that works as an overlay and give a more useful result. In order to make the problem more approachable and to take advantage of work done by others before this thesis focuses on cancer related apps [1, 2] Unfortunately there is not enough data in the metadata in order to create such a system, with a meaningful improvement in result. Another big problem is there are really an extremely small number of users a system like this will be targeted at both this version, but also a general version.