Building Rocket.Chat Native Android Application

[atikulhaider]

Hi, I have successfully installed Rocket.Chat on my CentOS 7 server. It is up & running nicely. I want to build the Native Android app. Although i'm Android newbie, I know I'm able to build it mysely if you please help me a bit :) I have seen your instruction:

Retrolambda needs java8 to be installed on your system

export ANDROID_HOME=/path/to/android/sdk

git clone https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Android.git cd Rocket.Chat.Android

echo "sdk.dir="$ANDROID_HOME > local.properties

./gradlew assembleDebug

But I don't understand where to start from. If you please help me with the commands to build it on Linux, it would be helpful. Just like some tutorial. I don't understand this line too "Retrolambda needs java8 to be installed on your system".

[matheusjardimb]

Hi @atikulhaider, thanks for getting in touch!

Yep, there's some missing documentation, specially on this 'getting started' moment for new developers. We already have an open issue regarding missing documenation: #272 I'll close this issue and add your request on that one, as a new topic.

In order to solve your last question:

• Retrolambda is the name of a dependency this app have
• It requires java8 installed in your environment in order to work properly
• Simply run java -version into your terminal and the result must be something like java version "1.8.0_131". If that's not the case, you should make proper changes into your environment.