Building Clover

Building Clover

Install the required tools

• Install git
• Install the latest JDK (NOT just the jre)
• Install Android Studio

Fork and clone

• Fork Clover by pressing the Fork button
• Open up a terminal (git bash if on Windows)
• Clone your new repo git clone https://github.com/YOURNAME/Clover

Setup Android Studio

• Open Android Studio
• Click "Import Project..."
• Select the file Clover/Clover/build.gradle and press OK
• Wait for Gradle to be finished (accept any Windows firewall alerts in the background if on Windows)
• Click the SDK Manager button at the top
• Open up the build.gradle file
• In the SDK Manager enable the checkbox on the Android version with the same API level as the compileSdkVersion in build.gradle
• Also enable the checkbox on the Android SDK Build-tools with the same version as the buildToolsVersion in build.gradle
• Click the "Install packages..." button
• Close the SDK Manager when finished
• Open up the Clover/build.gradle file in Android Studio
• Click "try again" to sync the project
• Wait for Gradle to finish (can take a very long time)
• In the console type
  cd Clover
git update-index --assume-unchanged Clover/Clover.iml
git update-index --assume-unchanged Clover/app/app.iml
  And you're ready to make changes!

Create a pull request

• Commit your changes git commit -a i, enter a descriptive message and save with ESC :wq ENTER
• Push your changes to your repo git push
• Make a pull request at https://github.com/YOURNAME/Clover/pulls
• Make a descriptive title and click Create pull request button