What is Cydia?

I made ​​this article about Cydia to think of new users who often have many questions and who are confronted with terms that have never heard of and is therefore welcome an article to learn more about Cydia.

What is Cydia?

Cydia is an application developed by Jay Freeman (Saurik) and has many similarities to the App Store application that is installed on your iPhone / iPod Touch.

How do I have cydia?

Cydia is an application that can have only if you jailbreak the iPhone / iPod Touch and tutorials found here on site to perform this process on your device

What will I find in Cydia?

As mentioned above Cydia is very similar to the App Store, so if you already familiar with the App Store should already be thinking about programs, games, utilities and others, and think very well. However Cydia and will moreover have applications that do not exist in app store, such as patches, sounds, discovers that Widgetse other during use. You must be wondering: Why is there such applications on the App Store? Usually some of these programs change system files or add features, so these programs are not permitted under the rules of Apple's SDK and therefore is not in the App Store.

The structure of Cydia:

When you open Cydia will find a bit confusing, or awkward, but soon ambientara and had been exploring the program and of course installing applications is for this reason that it serves. After opening you will find something like this:

How can fix below has five sections which are known as guides, let's see what each can do:

• Home - We are the main features, applications, sponsored, Sources and more FAQ.
• Sections - Shows all the folders that are divided into categories such as themes, games, utilities, etc. ..
• Changes - Here you will find all updates and newly added programs
• Manage - Provides management tools, where you can view all the programs / Remove Programs, Sources manually add / remove Sources and have access to all storage, as the partition you have installed Cydia and the operating system (root) partition and the second is that is dedicated to the media, themes, App Store, pictures, etc. ..
• Search - Allows you to search for a package by name, very useful when you know the name and do not want to waste time looking

How to download?

To download an application just to go and look for sections in the respective file folders you want, or Changes can also purchase the application you want and you will find the dates for its release in Cydia, normally every day new ones are themes, utilities or even updates

Check out how to make the installation of an application:

• choose the package you see in the image and clicking the left appears the details such as author, etc.
• Ai scored the install button

Then the left and Cydia application is Springboard in this case as a subject goes to Winterboard.

How do I add Sources?

• Enter cydia if not there
• Click> Manage> Sources> the top right click> Edit> Add and then
• It will open a pop-up window enter the URL
• After you entered the URL click Add Source
• Cydia will check sa URL is valid and will notify you
• Changes Go and check out the new packages that were added

And this is but I'll leave here a suggestion to use Cydia in moderation, since there are several applications that consume lots of battery and RAM, but soon I'll do another article advising what should and should not use in order to avoid delays and forced reboots security mode.

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