App formats

This is a page for tracking the effort to develop an app microformat for authors and publishers to mark up software.

Per the microformats process:

• app-examples
• app-formats
• app-brainstorming

Formats

Documenting existing formats and their schemas.

iTunes App Store

• name
• icon / logo
• publisher name
• description (multi-line)
• what's new in version X
• price
• category
• updated date
• version number
• download size
• language
• screenshots
• ratings

W3C App Manifest

https://w3c.github.io/manifest/

• language
• name
• short name
• description
• icons
• screenshots
• categories
• display mode (e.g. browser)
• orientation (lock to a specific device orientation?)
• theme color
• background color
• scope
• service worker
• related applications

Firefox App Manifest

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/B2G_OS/Firefox_OS_apps/Building_apps_for_Firefox_OS/Manifest

• name (required)
• description (required)
• icons (1 icon 128x128 required)
• developer
• default locale
• type

Google Chrome Extensions

• name
• author/publisher
• rating
• category
• number of users
• screenshots
• description
• version
• updated
• size
• language
• developer
• reviews

See also

• downloads-formats