It’s a rainy afternoon in Portland so I’m cozy with an espresso watching the rain. After a short hacking session you can now export your application as a Flatpak bundle quickly and easily. Just select the workbench menu in the top right corner of the workbench, followed by Flatpak, and then Export as Bundle.
A normal build will proceed but also includes a finalization step to populate the OSTree repository (flatpak build-export) and then create the bundle (flatpak build-bundle). Finally, Files will be opened with the bundle selected for your copy-and-paste ease. If you double-click the bundle, GNOME Software will be opened and allow you to quickly install the bundle.
Additionally, we’ve split off the update dependencies phase of the build pipeline for Flatpak-based configurations so you can work offline while still updating dependencies at your convenience. Just activate the menu item and the build pipeline will progress to download updates if the network is enabled.