4PT: PS4 APT

An Advanced Packaging Tool for the PS4
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Table of Contents

1. About The App
   • Screenshots
2. Features
3. Usage
4. Roadmap
   • Short Term
   • Long Term
5. Languages
6. Build Dependencies
7. Developers
8. Acnkowledgments

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About The App

There are many great Homebrew Apps/Games available.

This tool was developed in order for PS4 Homebrew users to easily download PKGs without the need of using a computer.

Furthermore, 4PT allows anyone to host their own repository and provide any apps/games they would like to share.

Screenshots

Screenshots

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Features

The current working app features are:

• Downloading PKGs from repositories/directly from a URL
• Ability to pause/resume a download
• Adding/Removing Repositories
• Searching apps, filtering by name, repository, and type
• Sorting apps, alphabetically, by size, or by version
• Install/Uninstall downloaded PKGs
• App has English, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, and German support
• 4PT updates itself automatically

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Usage

For information on how to use the app, refer to Tutorial

For information on creating a repo, please refer to 4PT-Repository

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Roadmap

Version 2.75 (~2 Month)

• Text issue
• Translate Uninstall button, delete keys and pkgtypes, Unknown
• Add Http Authentication Support
• Save on external HDD
• Fix crash when loading repo
• Fix crash when deleting
• Fix crash when deleting ongoing download
• Show speed and time remaining
• Download pkgs while playing games (Optional in settings)
• Show update available in downloads tab
• Fix bug that where update available would be shown after installing app's latest version
• Improved date string generation by adding a 0 in front of single digit time units
• Fix downloads tab flicker on rapidly changing selected download
• Use full downloads tab

Future versions (~1/2 Year)

• Fix Hungarian automatic detection
• Implement proper App deallocation when pressing the Close Application button on the PS Menu
• Add functionality to download binaries
• get Abstract Class from packageSearch and repoPackageList
• Add a new PKG List view where only covers are displayed
• Support for more languages

See the open issues for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).

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Languages

The app is available in:

• English
• Hungarian by Damy
• Italian by @imgiovi
• German
• Spanish

To add support for further languages, please contact me or open an issue

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Build Dependencies

This project is built using the Open Orbis PS4 Toolchain and the Yaml-CPP library.

• OpenOrbis PS4 Toolchain
• Yaml-CPP

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Developers

Víctor Jiménez - @victorrjimenezz - victorjimenez@4pt-project.com

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank 0x199 for helping me with the SSL issue.

I would like to thank the following developers for the developing following projects, which I used to learn how to perform certain actions:

• Remote Package Installer by Flat_z
        Learned how to access PS4's native HTTP
        Learned how get icon and version from pkgs
        Learned how to install PKGs
• PS4 Skeleton by Al Azif
        Used his jailbreaking tools to gain root privileges
        Used his notifi class to send notifications
• Vita Album by joel16
        Used his keyboard namespace to understand how IMEDialogs work
        Used his keyboard namespace to understand how to transform UTF8 <=> UTF16 strings
• PS4 Homebrew Store by LightningMods_
        Used his dialog method to pop dialogs
        Learned how to access PS4's native HTTP
        Learned how to install PKGs
  
• tiny-ps4-shell by John Törnblom
        Used his method to copy files
  
• OpenOrbis NET_HTTP Sample by Damián Parrino
        Used his setSSLCallback method to enable SSL
  

And I would like to thank the whole OpenOrbis team for developing the awesome PS4 Developer toolchain!!