On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:20:57PM +0000, Pedro Veloso wrote: > My name is Pedro Veloso and I'm an Android developer for more than 3 years > now. > > I would like to contribute to Arch by making an application that could > provide the user with functionality for searching packages, seeing their > details and dependencies etc. All of this in a convenient way trough a > native Android application. This application would be of course Apache > licensed (or similar one, point being I intent to open-source the whole > thing from the beginning). > > For this to work I would need a working API on the server side, I did a > brief search and I found some work is already underway in that sense ( > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_2) where there seems to be a > discussion on doing a REST API with OAuth authentication (which is great > because I've worked with both standards in several projects as well). > However I did not find what the current progress is on this, so that's what > I intend to find out sending this email to the aur-dev mailing list.
That project is dead. There is a RPC interface that might do what you want [1]. It currently can't be used to list dependencies, though. > > Thanks in advance, > Pedro [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/
