Adding an App

If you want to add an app that is not currently supported, here is how you go about that:

1. Fork the UserLAnd-Assets-Support repository.
2. The list of apps supported is controlled by the apps.txt file. You must add a new entry in that file.
3. The header, in that file, describes what each field means, but there are some things that would be good to point out.
   • If the app Category is Distribution, the App Name and Filesystem Type Required must match.
   • If the app Category is not Distribution, the Filesystem Type Required must be debian (for now).
   • isPaidApp must be false.
   • We currently don't look at version.
4. Each app must have a subdirectory matching the App Name created for it here.
5. That subdirectory must have a .sh a .png and a .txt file with the name matching App Name.
6. The .png should be relatively small, like 256x256, and ideally look nice and be transparent around the icon.
7. The .txt should have a brief description of what the app is. Currently this does not support localization, so these are all in English (sorry, we will figure this out later).
8. The .sh does everything needed to setup and run the app. Here is a really simple example. Note, these scripts always start by deleting themselves. We copy them into profile.d and have them delete themselves so they only run once.

If you are creating a new distribution, you have more work to do. Read about that here.