2021-12-02 –, Room A
Flatpak is a tool for delivering and sandboxing apps. Find out how to use it in your Yocto images with the meta-flatpak layer.
meta-flatpak provides a flatpak package which you can install in your images. With this your image can run any of the 100s of Linux apps available on Flathub. That’s the easy part.
With meta-flatpak you can also turn your existing image into a Flatpak runtime, which could be the starting point for a whole ecosystem of apps specific to your device.
This talk with give a brief overview of these concepts, along with an update of the status of the meta-flatpak layer.
Sam Thursfield is a contributor to desktop and build technologies centered around GNOME. As a software developer at Codethink he works on a variety of projects in the automotive space.