App Designer toolstrip. The App Details dialog box also provides an option for specifying
a screen shot. If you do not specify a screen shot, App Designer captures and updates a
screen shot automatically when you run the app.MATLAB provides your app details to some operating systems for display in their file
browsers. Specifying apps details also makes it easier to package and compile your apps.
The .mlapp file provides those details automatically to those interfaces.Package Your App
To package your app and make it accessible in the MATLAB Apps tab, create
an .mlappinstall file by following the steps in “Package Apps in App Designer” on
page 20-8 or “Package Apps From the MATLAB Toolstrip” on page 20-5. The
resulting .mlappinstall file includes all dependent files.20 Packaging GUIs as Apps