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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..943679c --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +AGL Application Launcher service reference implementation + +`applaunchd` is a simple service for launching applications from other +applications. It exposes an interface named 'org.automotivelinux.AppLaunch' on +on the D-Bus session bus and can be autostarted by using this interface name. + +This interface can be used to: +- retrieve a list of available applications +- request that a specific application be started by using the 'start' method +- subcribe to the 'started' and/or 'terminated' signals in order to be + notified when an application started successfully or terminated + +For more details about the D-Bus interface, please refer to the file +`data/org.automotivelinux.AppLaunch.xml`. + +Applications can be started either through D-Bus activation (using their D-Bus +name) or by specifying a command line to be executed, and are monitored until +they exit. Please note `applaunchd` allows only one instance of a given +application. + +AGL repo for source code: +https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org/gerrit/#/admin/projects/src/applaunchd + +You can also clone the source repository by running the following command: +``` +$ git clone https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org/gerrit/src/applaunchd +``` |