New Cydia repo online with more free iPhone/iPod touch apps

Posted by Daniel East Dec 21, 2008 at 10:43pm

If you have a jailbroken iPhone/iPod touch, you will be glad to know that there is a new Cydia repo online with more free apps available. You will have to manually put the repo URL in to the Cydia application for now though. Simply follow the directions below.

For users:

Adding Sleepers as a source is simple, just follow the below instructions and you will gain access to the packages that we currently have available.

1. Open Cydia
2. After Cydia fully loads navigate to Manage the click on Sources
3. Next click on Edit [upper left hand corner]
4. Then Click Add [upper right hand corner]
5. A window will open that says “Enter Cydia/APT URL” type: http://repo.sleepers.net/cydia
6. Then click Add source and your set to go!

For Developers:
Sleepers have seen many things since they have been hosting iPhone applications, one of the things that they felt the community needed was a automated process to handle the building of the actual packages for Cydia. Well, it is done. Sleepers is now offering the first automated Cydia hosting repository.

As a registerd developer you can simply upload your zip file with all of your screen shots, binary file, description and be walked through the automated package creation process. Once you submit your application, one of their staff members will install it and make sure the package has been created successfully.

Developers gain access to many new tools that they have built, and they feel the automated package creation tool is the biggest one, but they feel the second biggest one is giving you the ability to add your own ad code to the system to generate revenue.

They also do a few other checks to make sure the package is what you say it is and it does not install malicious code etc. If this is the case, you will be banned from their network, so please do not attempt to submit packages that are malicious in nature.

To get started as a developer simply register with the system: http://repo.sleepers.net/register.php

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