Aero

Aero is a simple software distributor.

API

Base URL: https://aero.jottocraft.com/<product identity>/<artifact type>

Providing a channel name serves the latest version in that channel

Artifact types

• msix Windows MSIX (only supports msixbundle, no optional or related packages)
  • /ms-appinstaller Redirects to a ms-appinstaller URI for installation via App Installer
  • /<product identity>.appinstaller
  • /<product identity>.msixbundle
  • /Dependencies/<filename>
• expo Expo JavaScript OTA updates
  • /protocol1 Endpoint for requests made via the Expo Updates v1 Protocol, like u.expo.dev, this also optionally accepts runtime-version, channel-name, and platform via query parameters
  • /assets/<asset key> Gets an asset
  • /<manifest ID> Gets a specific update by manifest version
• Win32 Squirrel (soon)
• Android APK (soon)

Uploading a deployment

• MSIX
  • Drag the .appinstaller and index.html files into the deployment folder
  • Rename .{appinstaller|appxsym|cer|msixbundle} files to .{appinstaller|appxsym|cer|msixbundle}
  • Upload the deployment folder to /<product identity>/msix/<deployment folder> in R2
  • Create a release in Sanity and set the folder parameter to the name of the uploaded deployment folder
  • Profit
• Expo
  • Drag all assets and manifests into /<product identity>/expo. Assets should be named after their key (with no extension), and manifests should be named in the format <manifest ID>.json.

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