Template.xml

template.xml files are stored in sce_sys/livearea/content and are responsible for the livearea's design and functions of a Game/Application. Once a new app has been installed and the bubble is launched for the first time, the xml's content will be partially written in the ur0:shell/db/app.db (tbl_livearea & tbl_livearea_frame)

Sample of a basic xml structure

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<livearea style="a1" format-ver="01.00" content-rev="1">
 
  <livearea-background>
    <image>bg0.png</image>
  </livearea-background>
 
  <gate>
    <startup-image>startup.png</startup-image>
  </gate>

  <frame id="frame3">
    <liveitem>
      <text><str>Hello World!</str></text>
    </liveitem>
  </frame>
 
</livearea>

Inside the <livearea>-tag the basic layout will be declared along with some internal version information of the xml. In the <image>-tag inside the <livearea-background>-tag the background picture will be declared (by default this will be bg0.png and located next to the template.xml itself) Analog to this the <startup-image>-tag inside the <gate>-tag declares the startup icon. (startup.png by default) And lastly the string "Hello World!" will be displayed at the position of frame3 depending on the livearea style.

Tags

<livearea>

Example:

<livearea style="a1" format-ver="01.00" content-rev="1">

Different Layouts for style="":

• 

  a1

• 

  a2

• 

  a3

• 

  a4

• 

  a5

• 

  ad0

• 

  ad1

• 

  ad2

• 

  ad3

• 

  ad4

• 

  nsx1

• 

  ps1emu

• 

  psmobile

• 

  pspemu

• 

  vd

• 

  browser

• 

  content_manager

• 

  kids

• 

  music

<livearea-background>

<livearea-background>
  <image>bg0.png</image>
</livearea-background>

<startup-image>

Example:

<gate>
  <startup-image>startup.png</startup-image>
</gate>

<frame>

Depending on the layout style, there will be different numbers of frames available. The positions itself are fix but you can position your liveitems inside them freely.

<frame id="frame3" multi="o" autoflip="0" rev="1">

<liveitem>

Liveitems are the actual displayed 'widgets' inside a frame. There can be different versions for different; language settings, time settings, age limits or even device models!

<liveitem default="on">

<liveitem from="2016-07-25T07:00:00.00Z" until="9999-07-25T17:00:00.00Z">

<text>

Example for styling options:

<text align="outside-right" ellipsis="off" line-align="left" line-break="on" line-space="3" margin-left="39" margin-top="18" origin="image" pre-br="on"  text-valign="center" valign="bottom" word-scroll="off" word-wrap="on" x="17" >

<str>

Example for styling options:

<str bold="on" color="#ffffff" emboss="off" oblique="off" shadow="off" size="22.000000" underline="off">Lorem Ipsum</str>

<image>

Example for styling options:

<image align="center" origin="frame" valign="top" width="99" height="99" x="-209">x.png</image>

<background>

<background align="center" valign="center" >x.png</background>

<target>

Creates a link that can be selected and touched. Can open a website or execute an uri call. Examples:

<target>http://xyz.com</target>

<target>camera:</target>

<target>psns:browse?product=EP4293-PCSB00956_00-GALGUNWAPP000000</target>

<lang>

Example: The liveitem containing this tag will only become active if the Vita's language setting is set to Japanese.

<lang>ja</lang>

Language Codes: ja, en, fr, es, de, it, nl, pt, ru, ko, ch, zh, fi, sv, da, no, pl, en-gb, pt-br, tr

<exclude-lang>

The liveitem will become active if the Vita's language setting doesn't match the language code(s). (Multiple declarations possible!)

<exclude-lang>en-gb</exclude-lang>
<exclude-lang>fr</exclude-lang>
<exclude-lang>es</exclude-lang>
<exclude-lang>de</exclude-lang>

<age-limit>

<age-limit >3</age-limit>

<model>

The liveitem will only become active on a Vita.

<model>vita</model>

Advanced tags for System Applications

<title color="#000000ff"/>

Sets the title color for system apps in the top left corner.

<system-function-zone>
  <func>voucher-code</func>
  <func>online-manual
     <target>sceman:photos</target>
  </func>
  <func>reload</func>
</system-function-zone>

Declares additional buttons to the top of the livearea screen.

Frame Example of NPXS10015

You can always dump the un-encrypted template.xml of any System application from vs0:app/NPXS1????/sce_sys/livearea/contents/ or any installed game/app from ur0:appmeta/TitleID/livearea/contents/.