kartikey20/superchat

superChat is a photo and file sharing application built on Android and is inspired by Snapchat. The project's goals are to develop a completely decentralized application that runs over the Named Data Network (NDN), utilize a partial sync protocol, and utilize a Web-Of-Trust like model instead of the traditional NDN hierarchical model.

Prerequisites

superChat requires the NDN Forwarding Daemon be run alongside it. NFD can be installed via Google Play or directly from the source.

Building

Getting PSync JNI

This build depends on PSync JNI. Clone Android Crew Staging in your Android/Sdk/ndk-bundle folder and install ndn-cxx and prerequisites. NFD is not needed unless you plan to build NFD-android. Being in the ndk-bundle directory, execute the following commands:

CREW_OWNER=named-data-mobile crew.dir/crew install target/sqlite target/openssl
CREW_OWNER=named-data-mobile crew.dir/crew install target/boost target/ndn_cxx
CREW_OWNER=named-data-mobile crew.dir/crew install target/psync

Use --no-check-shasum if there are problems with shasum.

Also add these local.properties file if not already added:

ndk.dir=/path/to/Android/Sdk/ndk-bundle
sdk.dir=/path/to/Android/Sdk

Building superChat

After installing PSync, it is recommended that one uses Android Studio to build the app. Simply pull this repository and allow the project to build itself. No other installations are required at this point of time. All other dependencies are pulled from external sources when the build file executes. This application only works on Android OS 6.0 and above.