Developer Tips: Making a Killer AppCenter Listing

Five ways to make your app stand out

As the number of apps in AppCenter grows, it’s becoming increasingly important for your app’s listing to stand out. It’s no longer sufficient to simply be at the party, you need to be the life of the party!

Read on for the five most important tips for your app to stand out.

Well Designed, Pixel-Perfect Icons

The first thing anyone will see for your app is its icon; it’s featured prominently in the banner when your app is brand new, and is the primary identifying part of your app listing throughout AppCenter.

Make sure it is awesome!

Follow the Iconography section of the Human Interface Guidelines to the letter, or consider working with a designer who can. Pixel-perfection, aligning to the grid, and appropriate color usage are critical to your icon simultaneously fitting into elementary OS and being recognizable. Also be sure to provide all appropriate sizes so it looks great throughout AppCenter as well as in the application launcher, dock, and workspace switcher when installed.

Daniel Foré recently wrote a whole piece about this, so be sure to give it a read.

Unique, Memorable Name