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title: "Presenting your add-on"
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If you decide to share your add-on to the public, paying attention to details is recommended. Of course, your add-on should have a proper name and description, but Hass.io also gives you some other tools to present your add-on even nicer.
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## Adding documentation
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Good documentation helps the consumer of your add-on to understand its usage, explains configuration options, points users in the right direction in the case they have questions or issues, and contains the license under which the add-on was published.
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This file containing the documentation is usually referred to as the "README", which is generally published as the `README.md` file.
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Take a look at other projects for inspiration. For example, see the `README.md` of the [Community Hass.io Add-ons: Homebridge](https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-homebridge/blob/master/README.md) add-on.
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In future versions of Hass.io, the `README.md` file will be displayed in the Home Assistant frontend.
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## Add-on icon & logo
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A picture is worth a thousand words. Therefore, your add-on can be improved by adding a proper image icon and logo. Those images are used when showing your add-on in the Home Assistant Hass.io panel and which will significantly improve the visual representation of your add-on.
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Requirements for the logo of your add-on:
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- The logo must be in the Portable Network Graphics format (`.png`).
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- The filename must be `logo.png`.
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- It is recommended to keep the logo size around 250x100px. You may choose to use a different size or aspect ratio as you seem fit for your add-on.
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Requirements for the icon of your add-on:
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- The icon must be in the Portable Network Graphics format (`.png`).
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- The filename must be `icon.png`.
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- The aspect ratio of the icon must be 1x1 (square).
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- It is recommended to use an icon size of 128x128px.
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## Keeping a changelog
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It is likely you are going to release newer versions of your add-on in the future. In case that happens, the users of your add-on would see an upgrade notice and probably want to know what changes were made in the latest version.
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A changelog is a file which contains a curated, chronologically ordered list of notable changes for each version of your add-on and is generally published as the `CHANGELOG.md` file.
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If you are in need of a guide on keeping a changelog, we would recommend checking the [keep a changelog](http://keepachangelog.com) website. They have developed a standard that is used by many opensource projects around the world.
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In future versions of Hass.io, the `CHANGELOG.md` file will be displayed in the Home Assistant frontend.
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## AppArmor
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You can use own security profile for you Add-on with AppArmor. Default it is enabled and use the Docker default profile. Put `apparmor.txt` file into your Add-on folder and it will load this file as primary profile. Use the config options to set the name of that profile.
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