Element Android is an Android Matrix Client provided by Element. The app can be run on every Android devices with Android OS Lollipop and more (API 21).
It is a total rewrite of Riot-Android with a new user experience.
Build of develop branch: Nightly test status:
Element is based on a new Android SDK fully written in Kotlin (like Element). In order to make the early development as fast as possible, Element and the new SDK currently share the same git repository.
At each Element release, the SDK module is copied to a dedicated repository: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-android-sdk2. That way, third party apps can add a regular gradle dependency to use it. So more details on how to do that here: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-android-sdk2.
The version 1.0.0 of Element still misses some features which was previously included in Riot-Android. The team will work to add them on a regular basis.
There is some delay between when a release is created and when it appears in the app stores (Google Play Store and F-Droid). Here are some of the reasons:
If you would like to receive releases more quickly (bearing in mind that they may not be stable) you have a number of options:
Summary
to download the APKs from there: vector-Fdroid-debug
and vector-Gplay-debug
contains the APK for the desired store. Each file contains 5 APKs. 4 APKs for every supported specific architecture of device. In doubt you can install the universal
APK.Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md if you want to contribute on Matrix Android projects!
Come chat with the community in the dedicated Matrix room.
Also this documentation can hopefully help developers to start working on the project.
Issues are triaged by community members and the Android App Team, following the triage process.
We use issue labels to sort all incoming issues.