Developer documentation

How to contribute code

Building And Bible

1. Download and Install Android Studio.

2. Install node.js from http://nodejs.org/.

3. Open a Terminal/command prompt.

4. Create a directory e.g. 'mydevdir' and change to that directory.

5. Run:

git clone https://github.com/AndBible/and-bible.git 

6. In Android Studio select File/Open. Then open the and-bible folder with a green compass icon under mydevdir/and-bible/and-bible.

While running And Bible in emulator, I'm using the following configuration:

Running tests

Configuration for running tests in Android Studio:

Contributing code

• Consider writing unit tests (whether it is very important or not depends on the type of code you write)
• Run tests and fix any that happen to be broken after your improvements
• Create pull request towards master branch

Code style guide

• Do not write too long lines (120 characters should be your guide)
• Preferrably write new code in Kotlin (i.e. if you need to create new file, create Kotlin file)
• If you are planning to work on stuff that involves touching a lot of Java files, please discuss with Tuomas first. We are gradually migrating Java files to Kotlin and that should probably be done first.

Branch naming

Please name your branches in the following syntax: <type>/#<issue-number>_<name>, where

• <type> is either feature or bugfix. Could also be refactor or improvement if it is clearly not a new feature or a bugfix.
• <issue-number> is Github issue number
• <name> is short human-readable name of the feature, spaces replaced with underscores (_).

Example: feature/#100_improve_layout

Building new jsword.jar for And Bible

• See instructions at jsword-tweaks repository

Release testing

• Test fresh install
• Test migrations

Making a new release

• Test release (see Release testing)
• About 1-2 weeks before, tx push -s and call for translators
  • Write release notes on a ticket (see for example #474)
  • Write translator context ticket (see for example #472)
• Increment major or minor version and release 'release candidate' (RC) in Play Store
• Prepare introduction video (See #475 for example)
• Check from f-droid if jsword or jsword-tweaks need an update
• Update translations (tx pull --force --minimum-perc 75)
• Update Play Store & F-Droid & website description texts if needed
• Tag a release (vx.x.xxx) and release in Play Store
• Tag a f-droid release (vx.x.xxx-fdroid) for new automatic f-droid build
• Make a facebook post