classicvalues/canvas-android

Canvas Android apps

Instructure Android

Instructure's Open Source Android Code

The open source code provided by the Android Team at Instructure.

Building

First, install the Flutter SDK using the instructions found here.

Next, run ./open_source.sh once. You may now use Gradle to build the apps. Prior to building the Student app for the first time, navigate to libs/flutter_student_embed and run the command flutter pub get.

Student and Teacher

1. Open apps/build.gradle in Android Studio

Android Studio > Import Project > canvas-android/apps/build.gradle

2. Select the app from the list of configurations (student or teacher)
3. Tap 'Run' (^R) to run the app

Parent

1. Open canvas-android/apps/flutter_parent in Android Studio.
2. Make sure the main.dart configuration is selected
3. Tap 'Run' (^R) to run the app

App	Command	Build Status
Student	./gradle/gradlew -p apps :student:assembleDevDebug
Teacher	./gradle/gradlew -p apps :teacher:assembleDevDebug
Parent	(in apps/flutter_parent) flutter pub get; flutter build apk

Running tests

To run unit tests for Student and Teacher

1. Open the Build Variants window and set the variant to qaDebug for the app that you wish to test.
2. You can run the tests by tapping on the play button next to the test case or the test class.

Applications:

The Applications we have published on Google Play.

App	Description
Canvas Student	Used by Students all over the world to be smarter, go faster, and do more.
Canvas Teacher	User by Teachers all over the world to update course content or grade on the go.
Canvas Parent	Used by Parents all over the world to be parents.
Canvas Polls	Used to take live polls.

Modules:

These are things that we use internally to create our applications.

Module	Description
BluePrint	An MVP Architecture that depends on PandaRecyclerView.
Canvas-Api	Deprecated - Canvas for Android Api used to talk to Canvas LMS. (deprecated)
Canvas-Api-2	Canvas for Android Api used to talk to the Canvas LMS and is testable.
dataseedingapi	gRPC wrapper for Canvas that enables creating data to test the apps
Espresso	The UI testing library built on Espresso.
SoSeedyCLI	CLI for using data seeding API manually
SoSeedyGRPC	gRPC server for using data seeding with iOS from Xcode
Foosball	A Foosball Application created and used interally to boost fun by over 120%.
Login-Api	Deprecated - The Library used to making logging in and getting a token relatively easy. (deprecated)
Login-Api-2	The libarary used to make logging in and getting a token relative easy and is testable.
PandaUtils	The junk drawer of things.
PandaRecyclerView	A fancy RecyclerView library that supports expanding and collapsing, pagination, and stuff like that.
Rceditor	A wrapper for rich content editing used in Canvas Teacher.

Our applications are licensed under the GPLv3 License.

Copyright (C) 2016 - present  Instructure, Inc.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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Our Modules are licensed under the Apache v2 License.

Copyright (C) 2016 - present Instructure, Inc.

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