Chee Aun 🤔RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115806706662248195
Still wondering if anyone can help 🙇♂️🙇♂️
halcy @ 
@cheeaun i had to add the source (manually, by copying the URL), after that it installed fine and works as I assume is intended
@halcy thanks! Is adding source like part of the onboarding?
@cheeaun yeah, though only quick and easy for „recommended sources“, which is like, the rest of those you can see in my screenshot. Not sure how you become one, probably you just ask the guy…? For yours, I had to copy the URL and paste it here. I forget if the onboarding screen also showed the text field
@halcy there's no like "default" store already added and displayed? I was thinking that my app will be added there to be discovered — maybe my source is "aggregated" to their source or something 😂
Riley Testut 
@cheeaun @halcy it may help to think of AltStore less as a “store”, and more as a sideloading tool that allows developers to directly distribute their apps to users. The idea is you discover apps from the web, then install it via AltStore
If you distribute macOS apps, it’s conceptually similar to distributing your app from your website and using Sparkle to update it (Sparkle XML == AltStore Source JSON)
@rileytestut 🤔 so this means that web sites could add a 'Download via AltStore' badge, when clicked, launch AltStore, auto-add the source, and display the app page? 🙈
@cheeaun @halcy yup! We’re actually working on a standard button anyone can easily add to their website, but in meantime you can use this URL scheme to deep link people to your source:
altstore-pal://source?url=[source URL]
Example:
altstore-pal://source?url=https://i.cizzuk.net/altstore/source.pal.json
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Party Knights - DE party game@q @cheeaun @rileytestut @halcy
Github user Zipdox2 has designed this pretty good looking download badge, you might want to have a look :) https://github.com/altstoreio/AltStore/issues/1607#issuecomment-2937232334
