Welcome to Flatpak’s documentation!

This covers everything you need to know to build and distribute applications as Flatpaks. The docs start with introduction to the basic concepts and a simple app building tutorial, before moving on to cover automated building and repository hosting.

Example tutorials are used throughout. To complete them, it is necessary to have flatpak and flatpak-builder installed on your system. flatpak.org provides `details on how to do this< http://flatpak.org/getting.html>`_.

Contents

• Introduction to Flatpak
  • Key concepts
  • Technologies
  • The flatpak command
• Anatomy of a Flatpak Application
  • AppData
  • Extensions
• Building Simple Apps
  • Installing an SDK
  • Creating an app
  • Building
  • Completing the build
• Flatpak Builder
  • Manifests
  • Cleanup
  • File renaming
  • Splitting things up
  • Example
  • Example manifests
• Working with the Sandbox
  • Useful sandbox permissions
• Hosting a repository
  • GPG signatures
  • Referring to repositories
  • Single-file bundles