Devs describe it as ‘an alternative software store for the Ubuntu Desktop made with Flutter‘, the app-development tech Ubuntu is all-in on. It’s not developed by Canonical (though Canonical employees do contribute to the code) and there’s no suggestion it’ll ever ship by default on the OS itself.
It doesn’t have a name yet, nor any branding, and as it’s still in active development there are only alpha-quality snapshots to play with.
The app is fast, it has an adaptive UI, and it makes it so easy to search for, install, and manage Snap apps (through the snapd Dart library). It can also handle the installation of software distributed as a .deb (through the PackageKit Dart library).
See https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/08/new-unofficial-ubuntu-software-app-flutter
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