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The support libraries expect to be using the gradle plugin version 0.10.0. We are currently on version 1.0.0. They use APIs in their build script which have moved or been removed, and so the build just breaks when we run it with the 1.0.0 plugin. I tried some magic to make it work in various ways, but kept failing. As such, I've reverted the `gradle -PsourceDeps` build to not build the support libraries from source. In the future, we should be able to change this if they change the plugin version to a more recent one. Note that the ant build script still hasn't been modified, and so will be using the binary support-v4 library, but should build appcompat-v7 from source. Was going to bump to Support v21, however there is some behaviour change which causes a crash. They have removed the progress view from the toolbar/actionbar. This breaks the AppDetails activity. As such, I'll leave that for the future. For now, there will be a slight difference between building with ant (which uses support v-almost-21) and gradle (which uses v20). This will stay the case until we get around to completely porting the app to v21, and fixing any bugs or UI sadness that arises.
F-Droid Client
Client for F-Droid, the Free Software repository system for Android.
Building from source with Gradle
Once you have checked out the version you wish to build, install gradle on your system and run:
git submodule update --init
gradle build
Android Studio
From Android Studio: File -> Import Project -> Select the cloned top folder
Building from source with Ant
The only required tools are the Android SDK and Apache Ant.
Once you have checked out the version you wish to build, run:
git submodule update --init
cd F-Droid
./ant-prepare.sh # This runs 'android update' on the libs and the main project
ant clean release
Direct download
You can download the application directly from our site or browse it in the repo.
Contributing
You are welcome to submit Merge Requests via the Gitlab web interface. You can also follow our Issue tracker and our Forums.
Translating
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Running the test suite
FDroid client includes a embedded Android Test Project for running tests. It
is in the test/ subfolder. To run the tests from the command line, do:
git submodule update --init
./ant-prepare.sh # This runs 'android update' on the libs and the main project
ant clean emma debug install test
You can also run the tests in Eclipse. Here's how:
- Choose File -> Import -> Android -> Existing Android Code Into Workspace for the
fdroidclient/directory. - Choose File -> Import -> Android -> Existing Android Code Into Workspace for the
fdroidclient/test/directory - If fdroid-test has errors, right-click on it, select Properties, the Java Build Path, then click on the Projects tab.
- Click on the Add... button and select
fdroidclient/ - Right-click on the fdroid-test project, then Run As... -> Android JUnit Test
Troubleshooting
When building F-Droid, the following error may occur:
Invalid file: extern/UniversalImageLoader/library/build.xml
Check the output of the ./ant-prepare.sh command. This error is often accompanied by the following message:
Error: The project either has no target set or the target is invalid. Please provide a --target to the 'android update' command.
The most likely cause of this is that your installed Android SDK is missing the target version specified by one of the dependencies. For example, at the time of writing this, UniversalImageLoader uses the "android-16" target API, however the default install of the Android SDK will usually only install the latest version ("android-20" as of writing). So you will have to install missings "android-xx" targets via the SDK manager. To get a list of already installed SDK targets, run:
$ android list targets
To get a list of targets used by fdroidclient libs, run:
$ for i in $(grep "android.library.reference" project.properties | cut -f2 -d'='); do
grep ^target $i/project.properties | cut -f2 -d'=';
done | sort | uniq | paste -s -d',' -
to install missing or all needed targets, for example "android-16" and "android-7" run:
$ android update sdk -u -t "android-16,android-7"
NOTE: While it may be tempting to add "--target=android-19" to the ant-prepare.sh script, it is not the correct solution. Although it may work, it can cause strange bugs at runtime.
License
This program is Free Software: You can use, study share and improve it at your will. Specifically you can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.