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The Push Android app.

License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Java 98.38% HTML 1.37% Ruby 0.25%

push-android's Introduction

Push-Android

This is the repository for the Android app portion of the Push app ecosystem. Theoretically, you should never have to actually touch this code. The idea is that it is pulled once, and sits in a folder. The generator will then automatically customize and build the code.

Features

Offline caching of stories
Push notification support
Analytics support
In-line images in stories
YouTube player support

Requirements

*nix based system (tested on MacOS 10.13 but should work similarly on Linux.)
Git Installation instructions here
Android Studio found here
The Push Backend must be set up before you start here. These instructions are pretty short since most of the work is done by that part of the project.

Note: This project with not work without the generator. The generator adds in specifically needed and customized files, without them everything will break.

Setup steps

Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/PushOCCRP/Push-Android
Create the app in the Google Play Developer Console
Create the app in the Firebase Conosle
After choosing your new app, look to the left side of the conosle, click the "notifications" menu item.
Enter the app id and name (make sure it's the same as in the push generator configuration file)
A file called google-services.json should automatically download.
Copy the google-services.json file to the /google-services/ folder in the generator.
Run the generator https://github.com/PushOCCRP/Push-Generator in offline mode with the -o flag
Open Android Studio. The studio will take some time to build the app up with your local settings.
Do a test build, if it breaks, submit a bug report.

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push-android's Issues

Crash: when opening internal link

Opening "The Mayor's Hidden Property" on my tablet, and clicking the link, nothing happened -- it just froze. Then when I click "back" it crashes

Change date to time

Right now the default format for the json is date only, change this to time after doin so on the backend as well.

Internationalization

Choose multiple organizations

Allow multiple organizations to be chosen to receive a feed from.

Allow easier templating

Figure out a way to easily modify the colors.

Video

Integrate video embeds.

Link to webview from url

if there's a url in a story, shoudl link to a webview of the destination

tap photo to show entire image

maybe also show a slideshow?

Clean up search

Wait until on OCCRP servers to clean up search.

About box is empty

Possibly useless?

Make list background white

Text cut off on smaller screens.

Make a small layout for the stories themselves

Share button needs more space

It's too cramped up against the right

Crash in Infobip

Probably if permissions are rejected.
https://www.fabric.io/occrp/android/apps/com.push.occrp/issues/56320998f5d3a7f76b2a4c9a

Longer headlines on first article

Show stories by country

Countries are tagged in vjwoc_tags on occrp_occrp

Push is a terrible name

Search

Allow a search to be performed against the backend and display results.

Template for OCCRP

Make it look like OCCRP's colors

Same font on story and article list

Reusing list views

info button looks weird.

Converting to Kotlin

I just received a Mozilla Open Source Software grant to convert Android to Kotlin. This is the issue that will track that progress.

However, what we'll also do is start small, write tests for a class, convert to Kotlin as the tests pass. Changing the architecture wildly is probably not a good idea at this point.

The android app needs more love than iOS so some refactoring may be necessary. If so, tests should still be written, but commit messages have to be very explicit.

Menu panel is largely redundant

It might be the wrong interaction mode for so few menu items -- worth considering alternatives.

gradle build seems looking in src/ instead of app/src/

Dear All

I am trying to build Push-Android using the Generator, i.e., with:

$ ruby push.rb -o -aandroid -mandroid

The script's "gradle build" didn't work out of the box. I have updated some version numbers and a repo path (for viewpager) in templates/android/android_build_gradle.erb.

Currently I am getting this error:

  FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
 
  * What went wrong:
    Cannot read packageName from
        /path/to/Push-Android/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml

I can't work out why gradle is looking in Push-Android/src/ instead of Push-Android/app/src/.

Running gradle build in Android Studio I found a bit more info:

Crashlytics issues a warning, which seems to be related (looking in src/ instead of app/src/):

    Crashlytics couldn't find the res folder specified in sourceSets.main.res, please make one. It picked: src/main/res

The task that fails is :generateDebugBuildConfig:

  :prepareComViewpagerindicatorLibrary241Library
  :prepareIoFabricSdkAndroidFabric1310Library
  :prepareDebugDependencies
  :compileDebugAidl
  :compileDebugRenderscript UP-TO-DATE
  :generateDebugBuildConfig FAILED

Am I missing a setting somewhere, to tell gradle to look in app/src/?

I am not very familiar with gradle or building for Android so any help gratefully received.

Push looks like a brilliant app and the Generator is an excellent idea. I am very much looking forward to having it up and running.

With thanks and best wishes

Ivan

Have friendly font for reading
Sufficiently large headline font
Tags shouldn't be as "loud"
Use human readable date formats
Limit text to 74-96 characters per line
Font should be at least as large as default system font