[stal2k]

hey guys first off, terrific work with everything I found out about XBMC only like 4 months ago, I've been really into it ever since. Anyway I am trying to make my own repository
I'm clearly a very very novice coder if you can even call it that, I made (copiied) some simple add ons to directly launch android applications, thing is I have friends/family who
would also benefit from those and the repository distribution obviously makes life easier. I am almost positive I have the repo setup correctly on google code. at first my .zip would install but now it
says install failed incorrect add-on structure (this is in ace skin) in confluence it says just failed. I am not sure what I changed if anything, when it did install the repo was empty.

I'm sure I missed a < or a " somewhere or something stupid but I've racked my head for over a week and just spent 2 hours digging through wiki and forums I can't figure it out.

Thanks in advance, btw anyone who wants some android launcher apps akin to the Nuska ones, feel free to use my repo

I am using winrar to zip, I made sure it was set to normal compression, made a fresh zip each time and ran my xml generators and did svn commit like wiki said. I just can't figure it out
the addons install hit/miss which is odd considering I only changed a few things in each one and used same file. Thats what leads me to think maybe it is winrar?

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<?xml version="1.0.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<addon id="repository.gtek" name="gTeK gTV Repo" version="1.0.0" provider-name="gTeK Memphis">
<extension point="xbmc.addon.repository" name="gTeK gTV Add-ons">
<info compressed="false">https://gtekxbmc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/addons.xml</info>
<checksum>https://gtekxbmc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/addons.xml.md5</checksum>
<datadir zip="false">https://gtekxbmc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/</datadir>
</extension>
<extension point="xbmc.addon.metadata">
<summary>Install gTV addons</summary>
<description>Download and install addons from gTeK. </description>
<platform>all</platform>
</extension>
</addon>

[Martijn]

PHP Code:

<?xml version="1.0.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

to
[php]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>[/php

i think

you can also use
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...or_add-ons
for automated ways

[stal2k]

thanks, I'll try the php, I actually had it at 1.0 instead of 1.0.0, I thought thats what was messing it up. That link is the page I was working off of, it does automate the master .xml file creation (which I use) but the actual repository.zip file is the one thats borked =/ I'll try the php see if that fixes it, I hope so thank you

[Martijn]

Or you package it wrong.
See wiki add-on development for correct structure

[stal2k]

ya I followed the wiki, I just plugged my own info over someone elses to begin with like it suggested, the php tag did'nt change it, I may just try again from scratch I dunno. I have zip---myfolder--addon.xml icon.png and fanart.jpg.
if it fails to install from the zip, is it possible something is'nt set up right on google code? or does it not even check there yet at this point.