diff --git a/vlc.appdata.xml b/vlc.appdata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..35a4cc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vlc.appdata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<component>
+  <id type="desktop">vlc.desktop</id>
+  <metadata_license>CC0-1.0</metadata_license>
+  <name>VLC Media player</name>
+  <project_license>GPL-2.0+ and LGPL-2.1+</project_license>
+  <summary>Read, capture, broadcast your multimedia streams</summary>
+  <url type="homepage">http://www.videolan.org</url>
+  <description>
+    <p>VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various
+audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...)
+as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
+It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast
+in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.</p>
+    <p>Features:</p>
+    <ul>
+      <li>Fast hardware decoding on most platforms.</li>
+      <li>Supports playback of all video and audio formats (might require additional codecs).</li>
+      <li>The most complete feature-set over the video, subtitle synchronisation, video and audio filters.</li>
+      <li>Miscellaneous: SAP/SDP announces, Bonjour protocol, Mozilla/Firefox plugin, ActiveX plugin, SVCD Menus, Localization, CD-Text, CDDB CD info, IGMPv3, IPv6, MLDv2, CPU acceleration.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </description>
+  <screenshots>
+    <screenshot type="default">
+      <image height="686" width="1000">http://images.videolan.org/vlc/screenshots/2.0.0/vlc-2.0-gnome3-debian.jpg</image>
+      <caption>Playing video</caption>
+    </screenshot>
+    <screenshot>
+      <image height="690" width="1000">http://images.videolan.org/vlc/screenshots/2.0.0/vlc-2.0-poney.jpg</image>
+      <caption>Add files to playlist</caption>
+    </screenshot>
+  </screenshots>
+  <update_contact>vlc-devel@videolan.org</update_contact>
+</component>
diff --git a/vlc.changes b/vlc.changes
index 9a38647..0e6391f 100644
--- a/vlc.changes
+++ b/vlc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Aug  3 03:19:18 UTC 2016 - badshah400@gmail.com
+
+- Add and install appdata file.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jul 10 16:15:58 UTC 2016 - suse@tleine.de
 
diff --git a/vlc.spec b/vlc.spec
index e6799f0..0c3582f 100644
--- a/vlc.spec
+++ b/vlc.spec
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Source:         http://download.videolan.org/%{name}/%{version}/%{name}-%{versio
 # Add vlc.changes as source, so we can reproducibly extract the date from it during build
 Source1:        %{name}.changes
 Source2:        %{name}-rpmlintrc
+Source3:        %{name}.appdata.xml
 # PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE vlc-2.1.5-fix-skins2-default-skin-creation.patch -- see description in patch header
 Patch1:         vlc-2.1.5-fix-skins2-default-skin-creation.patch
 Patch3:         0001-no-return-in-non-void.patch
@@ -504,6 +505,9 @@ for lang in ach an cgg co ff tet ks_IN; do
 done
 %find_lang vlc
 
+#Install appdata file
+install -Dm0644 %{S:3} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/appdata/%{name}.appdata.xml
+
 %post
 %{_libdir}/vlc/vlc-cache-gen -f %{_libdir}/vlc/plugins
 
@@ -532,6 +536,8 @@ done
 # The presence of the .desktop file is what gives AppStream the
 # hint of which package to add in the appstore... 'vlc' is the place to be
 %{_datadir}/applications/vlc.desktop
+%dir %{_datadir}/appdata
+%{_datadir}/appdata/%{name}.appdata.xml
 # The icon is the one referenced by the .desktop file
 %{_datadir}/pixmaps/vlc.png
 %{_bindir}/svlc