Thoughts on an open source repository system for android?

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Ive been hacking up a repo system for droids over the past few weeks under the name apkget.

The goal is to have a simple app that can connect to any repo. get a list of app (may be version specific; looking at header), some meta data, and a download url. save all that on the client in a db. let the browse/search that, download install apps listed in the repo.

anyone can host a repo, filter droids via user-agents and give them the right apk.

Current experiment have show new possiblietes of this kinda of software, and was interested if there is anything like this (other than the commercial markets?).

It sounds great! Ever since i first saw a Android phone, i've been wondering where apt was.

I would definitely use it.