Fascinated by the idea of sharing Android apps offline, and specifically during internet blackouts that are an unfortunate reality around the world. The ability to send and receive "an APK", no matter how much the sender is trusted, opens a dangerous attack vector – especially with open source software. An adversary, by means of basic social engineering, has now an untethered distribution channel to spread a malicious fork with zero verification. Zapstore, however, has been designed from the ground up for adversarial contexts. We are able to send not only Android artifacts, but Nostr events that verify it and set up a basic web of trust check completely offline. Won't be implemented right away, but here is the draft spec to kick it off:

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Share installed apps locally with others via Bluetooth or WiFi · Issue #259 · zapstore/zapstore

Requested by Gigi FEAT-XYZ — Offline APK Sharing via Bluetooth Goal Allow two Zapstore users to share installed APKs directly between devices via...

GM developers! Not cool to publish an app that is not yours. Friendly reminder for now 😘

@@⚡ Dee Kay ⚡🇸🇪🇬🇧🇨🇿🇧🇷🇦🇹 is the "LCe" app your creation? It looks like a clone of the original author's one. Please explain.

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Announcing zsp, our new tool exclusive for publishing apps to Nostr and Blossom, written from scratch in Go. 🚀 It addresses many of the zapstore-cli limitations and brings way more features, speed and security to the table. ⚠ Attention developers ⚠ please try it out and report bugs... this tool will eventually replace zapstore-cli, and it's ready for publishing under the new NIP format we're migrating to. First look here: Downloads:

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SHA-256 checksums: 404f15b256bceae2ecaf652155a6cebd4759cabd3c63ef95f14d6746a212c70a zsp-darwin-arm64 720597c6cee94b05188cb8f82e0b3ef8e64dbb2d98490d569096bcb852e28869 zsp-linux-amd64 c05907b9262e654f0149f5fa67825829380111a5e25ac14c27f347ff140f8e2b zsp-linux-arm64

Zapstore featured in the HowToMen channel with 868,000 subscribers 🤯 Here's the clip (2nd out of 12 tools reviewed):

Google's low-IQ solution to the malware problem is killing open mobile distribution. Zapstore will find the way to remain usable in stock Android and give the fight. View quoted note →

Zapstore reached over 100 apps signed by their developers 🎉 Incredible milestone. For more to come! (Shout out to @BTCingularity for grouping them in the "Signed by npub" stack, hiding indexed apps will be much easier very soon!)

Extremely grateful to HRF for supporting Zapstore! View quoted note →