Legacy app plugins
Data source and panel plugins will show up like normal plugins. The app pages will be available in the main menu.
Developing an App Plugin
An App is a bundle of panels, dashboards and/or data source(s). There is nothing different about developing panels and data sources for an app.
Apps have to be enabled in Grafana and should import any included dashboards when the user enables it. A ConfigCtrl class should be created and the dashboards imported in the postUpdate hook. See example below: