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NIP-82

Software Applications

draft optional

This NIP defines kind 32267 to represent a software application.

Application

{
  "kind": 32267,
  "content": "<description>", // Description of the application, markdown is allowed
  "tags": [
    ["d", "<app-id>"], // Usually reverse domain notation: com.example.app
    ["name", "<human-readable project name>"], // Name: Example App
    ["icon", "<icon-url>"], // Icon URL
    ["image", "<image-url>"], // Image URL, can be used multiple times
    ["t", "<tag>"], // Tags related to the application, can be used multiple times
    ["url", "<website-url>"], // Website URL for the app
    ["repository", "<repo-url>"], // Source code repository URL: https://github.com/example/android
    ["a", "30617:<destination-pubkey>:<repo-id>", "<relay-url>"], // Pointer to NIP-34 repository
    ["a", "30063:<destination-pubkey>:<app-id>@<version>"], // Pointer to the latest NIP-51 release artifact set
    ["commit-id", "<sha1-commit-id>"], // SHA1 commit id used to build the release
    ["f", "<platform-identifier>"], // Platform identifier, can be used multiple times 
    ["license", "<spdx-id>"] // License ID
  ]
}

All tags are optional but the d tag MUST be present. Applications SHOULD use their application or bundle identifier as the d tag, which typically is an ID with dots in reverse-domain notation.

For icon and image tags any URL is valid but a Blossom BUD-01 endpoint is recommended.

License IDs are SPDX IDs as defined in https://spdx.org/licenses/.

An a tag reference to the latest 30063 event SHOULD be present to facilitate discovering the latest release of an app. Similarly, f tags SHOULD be included to describe supported platforms that MUST match predefined identifiers.

Platforms

Platform is defined as the specific underlying system on which the application is executed, a combination of operating system and hardware architecture. We use the f tag for this purpose, with the following identifiers loosely based off uname -sm:

Identifier OS Architecture
android-arm64-v8a Android ARMv8-A
android-armeabi-v7a Android ARMv7-A
android-x86 Android x86
android-x86_64 Android x86-64
darwin-arm64 MacOS ARM64
darwin-x86_64 MacOS x86-64
linux-aarch64 Linux ARM64
linux-x86_64 Linux x86-64
windows-aarch64 Windows ARM64
windows-x86_64 Windows x86-64
ios-arm64 iOS ARM64
web (Web browsers) -

Attribution

App authors MAY include their pubkeys as p tags and zap tags as per NIP-57 - Appendix G. This is useful in the case of an author other than the one who signed the event, or multiple authors.

Usage

A kind 30063 release artifact set SHOULD have an a tag reference back to this event, alongside its references to "e" file metadata events.