Flatpak package

[saskadaniel]

NanoBoyAdvance would be much easier to install on a lot of distros if a flatpack would be provided

[JakobDev]

See #261

[JakobDev]

As this is labelled with help wanted, is there any more Help you need?

[Vulcalien]

I might try to make a flatpak package later. Flatpaks need a unique id in reverse DNS.

What ID should NanoBoyAdvance have? It should be a domain which you control, but if none is available then we could find a workaround.

[fleroviux]

@Vulcalien I own nanoboyadvance.io. Is there anything specific I would need to setup in terms of DNS entries?

[JakobDev]

Is there anything specific I would need to setup

If you want to verify NanoBoyAdvance, you will need to put a file at https://nanoboyadvance.io/.well-known/org.flathub.VerifiedApps.txt.

[Vulcalien]

Good news! I managed to write a functioning manifest file: https://github.com/Vulcalien/io.nanoboyadvance.NanoBoyAdvance
Now I just need to set all the permissions, cleanup unused files to reduce download size etc...
After that, I'll look into publishing to FlatHub.

On that note, does NBA need Internet connectivity for anything? I currently haven't enabled it in the flatpak file.

[fleroviux]

Good news! I managed to write a functioning manifest file: https://github.com/Vulcalien/io.nanoboyadvance.NanoBoyAdvance
Now I just need to set all the permissions, cleanup unused files to reduce download size etc...
After that, I'll look into publishing to FlatHub.

Great! Just a small heads up, I'm planning to release version 1.8 likely in a few hours, so it might be worth it to wait for that before publishing.

On that note, does NBA need Internet connectivity for anything? I currently haven't enabled it in the flatpak file.
It does not.

[Vulcalien]

I'm planning to release version 1.8

That's great! It should also fix a problem I'm encountering at the moment. I'll wait until the new version is out.