unofficial-appstore

About

A desktop gui for the Homebrew Appstore written in python.

Uses the switchbru/4TU team's site as a backend for image and package downloads.

One of the main goals of this app is to provide a homebrew management tool that doesn't require the switch to access the internet. Especially useful for people who always keep their switch in airplane mode.

Download:

https://github.com/LyfeOnEdge/unofficial-appstore/releases

Working Stuff:

• Dynamic Search
• Categories
• Downloading directly from the switchbru/4tu site
• Tracking with the appstore
• Opening project pages
• Threaded operations mean the app no longer becomes unresponsive with big downloads
• Self-updater
• Buttons load dynamically so only what you need to see loads, this reduces startup time to only a few seconds.
• Sort by title or author name

Future plans:

• Add sorting to lists
• Improve look and feel with google's material design
• Add "esc" and "backspace" as hotkeys to exit the details window
• Direct memloader integration (SD only) for installation directly over USB.

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How to run:

Windows:

• Extract unofficial-appstore.zip
• Install python
  • Make sure to keep the tcl/tk checkbox ticked if doing a custom installation
  • You must restart your pc after installing python for the first time.
• Open a command prompt, type pip install Pillow
  • This installs a required image library Pillow
• To run the app: double-click start_appstore.bat

Macintosh:

• Extract unofficial-appstore.zip
• Mac users may already have a compatible version of python installed, try double-clicking unofficial-appstore.py
• If the file opens in a text reader, close the reader and right-click the file and open it with pylauncher
• If this still doesn't work, install python
• To run the app: double-click unofficial-appstore.py

Linux:

• Extract unofficial-appstore.zip
• Navigate to the directory in a terminal
• Type python3 unofficial-appstore.py
• If you are missing dependencies do the following:
  • sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python3-tk python3-pil python3-pil.imagetk
• If you don't know how to do this you should probably be using Windows ;D
• To run the app: python3 unofficial-appstore.py

How to use:

• Connect your SD card to your computer
• Start the app
• Click the "Select SD root" button
• A file dialog should appear, select the root of your SD card
• Select an app you'd like to see more about
• Click install to have the app properly installed on to the SD card
• When you're done, unmount your SD card, put it in your homebrewed Nintendo Switch, and reboot.

Troubleshooting:

• If you are getting errors about tkinter or pillow look above at the setup instructions for your OS
• Image download errors are to be expected, please do not report them.

Known bugs:

Linux:

• the highlighted text for the selected category is black in the listbox instead of white

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Credits:

• vgmoose, pwscind, and the 4TU team
• sudotoph, guts for testing

Want to contribute? Have ideas? Questions? Great!

You can find me here: 4TU