Application sandboxing with Flatpak Portals
summary
Covers using Flatpak to sandbox desktop applications and the Desktop Portal architecture that lets sandboxed apps interact with the OS. Describes how to integrate an app with existing Portals and how to extend the Portal API to add new capabilities.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:57Summary
- 5:12Flatpak concepts
- 11:14Building a Flatpak app
- 12:04Sandboxing
- 12:50The basic Flatpak sandbox
- 14:14What's isolated by default?
- 14:37Sandbox holes
- 22:01DEMO TIME
- 24:07Using Portals
- 25:33Automagic APIs
- 26:14Portal architecture caveats
- 30:53Interactive interfaces
- 31:39Writing a Portal
- 34:07References
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