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4PT: PS4 APT

An Advanced Packaging Tool for the PS4
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Website · 4PT Template Repository · 4PT Repository GUI · App tutorial

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

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

Usage

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

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

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 deleting ongoing download
• Compare repo url regardless HTTP
• Filter by region (https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps4/Productcode)
• Add portuguese
• Fix bug that causes the app to crash, after having changed the language and moving to the last page of the search list
• Show speed and time remaining
• Download pkgs while playing games (Optional in settings)
• Show update available in downloads tab
• Fix bug that caused update available to 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 crash when loading slow and long repo
• Fix bug that causes the app to freeze
• 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).

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

Build Dependencies

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

• OpenOrbis PS4 Toolchain
• Yaml-CPP

Developers

Víctor Jiménez - @victorrjimenezz - [email protected]

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!!