One of the best things about Boxee is how simple it is to build a Boxee app. In this post, I’m going to show you how to do that with a single XML file.
Don’t dismiss this method of building a Boxee app, as some of the bigger content providers have opted for this over the more complicated “Skin” app.
You will need to first choose an app ID. Pick a short name, with just alpha numeric characters ( no spaces). For this demonstration purpose, just pick “myfirstapp” as the app ID.
Create a directory named “myfirstapp” and inside that direction create a file called “descriptor.xml”
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<app>
<id>myfirstapp</id>
<name>My First App Title</name>
<version>1.0</version>
<description>myfirstapp description</description>
<thumb>http://path_to_your_domain/thumbnail_name.png</thumb>
<media>video</media>
<copyright>Your company</copyright>
<email>your@emailaddy</email>
<type>rss</type>
<platform>all</platform>
<minversion>0.9.7</minversion>
<url>http://feeds.feedburner.com/AskANinja</url>
<test-app>true</test-app>
</app>
Here are the important points
1) You must have a valid thumbnail for the app to work
2) <type> is RSS
3) <minversion> is 0.9.7 for rss apps
4) <url> points to the mrss feed for your app.
5) <test-app>true</test-app> will allow the app to show up in your application list without installing
Now put everything in your apps directory. Follow this link to find out where that directory reside on your platform.
That’s IT! You now have your own app!