MonoKiosk¶

Mono apps are distributed through the Kiosk, and you can get your app into the Kiosk by following the recipe below.

GitHub¶

If your source code is hosted on GitHub, you will need to make a GitHub release and attach three types of files to the release, namely

The app description.
A set of screenshots.
The binary app itself.

App description¶

The release must contain a file named app.json that contains the metadata about your app, for example

{ "id":"com.openmono.tictactoe"
, "name":"Tic Tac Toe"
, "author":"Jens Peter Secher"
, "authorwebsite":"http://developer.openmono.com"
, "license":"MIT"
, "headline":"The classic 3x3 board game."
, "description":
  [ "Play with a fun and exciting game with against another player."
  , "Can you beat your best friend in the most classic of board games?"
  ]
, "binary":"ttt.elf"
, "sourceurl":"https://github.com/getopenmono/ttt"
, "required":["display","touch"]
, "optional":[]
, "screenshots":
  [ "tic-tac-toe-part1.png"
  , "tic-tac-toe-part2.png"
  , "tic-tac-toe-part3.png"
  ]
, "cover": "tic-tac-toe-part2.png"
, "kioskapi": 1
}

As you can see, app.json refers to three distinct images (tic-tac-toe-part1.png, tic-tac-toe-part2.png,tic-tac-toe-part3.png) to be used on the app’s page in MonoKiosk, so these three files must also be attached to the GitHub release. The metadata also refers to the app itself (ttt.elf), the result of you building the application, so that file must also be attached to the release.

The format of the metadata needs to be very strict, because it is used to automatically create an entry for your app in MonoKiosk. The metadata must be in JSON format, and the file must be named app.json. In the following, we will describe the format in detail.

id¶

The id must be unique within the Kiosk, so you should use reverse domain name notation like uk.homebrewers.brewcenter.

name¶

The name of the app as it should appear to people browsing the Kiosk.

author¶

Your name or Organisation, as it should appear to people browsing the Kiosk.

authorwebsite¶

An optional URL to your (organisation’s) website.

license¶

How other people can use your app and the source code. We acknowledges the following licenses:

If you feel that you need another license supported, take it up in the community.

headline¶

Your headline that accompanies the app on the Kiosk.

description¶

A list of paragraphs that give other people a detailed desription of the app, such as why they would need it and what it does.

binary¶

The name of the ELF file which has been produced by your compiler, and which you have attached to the release.

sourceurl¶

An URL to the source code of the app.

required¶

A list of hardware that must be present in a particular Mono to run the app. The acknowledged hardware is as follows.

accelerometer
buzzer
clock
display
jack
temperature
touch
wifi
bluetooth

optional¶

A list of Mono hardware that the app will make use of if present. The acknowledged hardware is the same as for the required list.

screenshots¶

A list of images that will be presented in the Kiosk alongside the app description.

All images must be either 176x220 or 220x176 pixes, and they must be attached to the release.

cover¶

One of the screenshots that you want as cover for app in the Kiosk.

kioskapi¶

The format of the metadata. The format described here is version 1.

How to get your app included¶

When you have created a new (version) of your app, you can contact us at kiosk@openmono.com with the URL of your release (eg. https://api.github.com/repos/getopenmono/ttt/releases/tags/v0.1.0), and we will do a sanity check of the app and add to the official list used by the Kiosk.

For GitHub, the url for a release is https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/releases/tags/:tag