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 App Tutorial
 ============
 
+This will teach you how to get develop your own owncloud app.
+
+Before you start, please check if there already is a similar app you could contribute to. Also, feel free to communicate your idea and plans to the mailing list so other contributors might join in (https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud).
+
+
 Getting Started
 ---------------
+To get started you'll need to clone the basic git repositories into your web directory. Depending on your distro this will either be :file:`/var/www or` :file:`/srv/http`
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+  
+  sudo chmod a+rw /var/www  # only do this on your dev machine!
+  cd /var/www
+  git clone https://github.com/owncloud/core.git owncloud
+  git clone https://github.com/owncloud/apps.git apps
+  git clone https://github.com/owncloud/3rdparty.git 3rdparty
+
+Now restart your apache server and get ready to set up owncloud at http://localhost/owncloud
+
+
+Enable debugging mode
+---------------------
+To disable caching of JavaScript and CSS you'll have to turn on debugging in the :file:`/var/www/owncloud/config/config.php` by adding this to the end of the file::
+
+  DEFINE('DEBUG', true);
+
+
+Create your app
+---------------
+The best way to create your application is to simply use and modify the app template.
+
+To do that execute:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+  cd /var/www/apps
+  sudo cp -r apptemplate yourappname
+  sudo chown -R youruser:yourgroup yourappname
+
+To enable your app, simply link it into the apps directory:
+
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+  ln -s /var/www/apps/yourappname /var/www/owncloud/apps/yourappname
+
+or set the apps directory in your :file:`/var/www/owncloud/config.php` (see :doc:`configfile`)
+
+Don't forget to enable it on the apps settings page!
+
+Now change into your app directory::
+
+  cd /var/www/apps/yourappname
+
+
+Remove/Replace apptemplate specific things
+------------------------------------------
+Certain things are still apptemplate specific that you will have to replace for your app.
+
+.. todo::
+
+  Provide some sed commands for simple transformation
+
+The following things will need to be changed:
+
+* AGPL Headers and copyright
+* **\\OC_App::getAppPath('apptemplate')** to **\\OC_App::getAppPath('yourappname')**
+* **namespace OCA\\AppTemplate** to **namespace OCA\\YourAppName**
+* The Classpaths in :file:`appinfo/bootstrap.php`
+
+Metainformation
+---------------
+You will want to set certain metainformation for your application. To do that open the :file:`appinfo/app.php`
 
-To get started
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