Create your own application repository [blocked in country, clone it and specify its address]

[bestman]

Since the https://webxdc.org/ application repository is blocked in my country, is it possible to somehow clone it, move it to my storage, and specify its address in the delta chat client?

[ian]

See:

Russia blocks apps catalogue

The centralized app cat is currently privileged in the UI; could use of locally-stored and peer-shared apps be made more convenient? On android version there is an experimental setting to choose the “appstore” url. android just embeds a website, desktop loads the JSON repository file directly. I believe we need to decide on an unified way of doing it, so that users can just put in the same url on desktop and android and it works on both platforms. However it is done internally, the URL to …