Install0us 3 beta available for a limited time

By
Adrian Gabor
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It seems that the Christmas spirit has hit puy0 hard this year, or maybe the collection from donors has been up to expectations, either way, starting today FOR A LIMITED PERIOD you can download a Xmas Beta version of Install0us from Cydia from the official Install0us repo.

The Christmas spirit seems to have touched puy0 a little more because he decided to change the search system of the applications for which you have the update, a change that will be made by users manually or if you are patient, certain extensions will soon appear in Cydia which once installed will add to Install0us the possibility to search for a specific update of an application directly in appulo.us instead of Google or AppStore.

The new version has no limitations compared to the one available for those who donated and in addition brings some improvements:

  • The updates screen has been cleaned, and debugged a lot
  • The details screen now displays App price and Size
  • The download tabs are more sexy
  • Merry xmas
  • I love champagne

For those who have the necessary know-how and want to make extensions, I will post puy0's explanations in the following:

  • The /Library/Install0us folder
    First, give a look at /Library/Install0us on your device > a file, Google.plist great.
    This important folder will contain all future Install0us extensions.
    Install0us will load ALL .plist files similar to the Google sample one provided. Yeah, run, go create your MyFavSites.plist… :)
    (Once again, I repeat, we will not provide them, for legality sake)
  • Anatomy of an Extension file
    Let's take a look at this file:

    • Web : An array of "Web Extensions"
      • Item 0 : a Web Extension being defined by :
        • Label : The label of the extension... (You can see it in the Download tab of Install0us)
        • URL : The URL to go to. These URLs are a bit particular, install0us can insert two USEFUL informations in em :
          • %AppName% : As you can see in the Google sample, you can send the App Name, useful for calling a search page.
          • %iTunesID% : The iTunes identifier. Imagine you want to go straight to the description page of an app, or anything like... ;)
          • Item 1: This is an ARRAY... you can define more than one :)

    • Right now, an extension file has this structure :

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