First steps

Let's start! First thing you need to do is place a 'welcome message' to your web server. This welcome message contains information about your service. If user types this url into Locify client, it will able to install your service.

Format

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:locify="http://client.locify.com/locify_ns/1.0" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>Your-service-name</title>
  </head>
  <body class="serviceInfo">
    <div>
      <p class="description">Your-service-descripton</p>
      <img src="Your-service-icon-url" class="icon" alt="" />
      <a href="Your-service-first-screen-url" class="firstScreen">firstScreen</a>
      <a href="Your-service-settings-url" class="settings">settings</a>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Parameters

  • Your-service-name - Name of your service
  • Your-service-description - Additional info about your service
  • Your-service-icon-url - Icon of your service. Should be an PNG image 25x25 pixels.
  • Your-service-first-screen-url - First screen of your service. When user clicks on your service in main menu of Locify client, this url will be called.
  • Your-service-settings-url (optional) - Url of form defining service settings. Read more about service settings.

Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:locify="http://client.locify.com/locify_ns/1.0" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
	<title>My cool service</title>
</head>
<body class="serviceInfo">
	<div>
		<p class="description">This service is very cool and is used just for demonstration.</p>
		<img src="http://www.mycoolservice.com/cool.png" class="icon" alt="" />
		<a href="http://www.mycoolservice.com/start" class="firstScreen">firstScreen</a>
		<a href="http://www.mycoolservice.com/settings" class="settings">settings</a>
	</div>
</body>
</html>

How it looks like

Service info screenshot