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Brave Link Bubble Browser
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Brave for Android (formerly Link Bubble)

Install instructions and setup

git clone git@github.com:brave/browser-android.git

Either install the Crashlytics/Fabric Android Studio plugin or copy Application/LinkBubble/fabric.properties.template to Application/LinkBubble/fabric.properties and fill in the apiSecret.

Copy Application/LinkBubble/src/main/java/com/linkbubble/ConfigAPIs.java.template to Application/LinkBubble/src/main/java/com/linkbubble/ConfigAPIs.java and fill in the youtube apiSecret.

Copy Application/LinkBubble/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml.template to Application/LinkBubble/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml and fill in com.crashlytics.ApiKey and io.fabric.ApiKey with your Crashlytics API key. You can obtain it from logging into your Fabric account and going to: Settings -> Organizations -> Brave (or your organization) then click on API Key at the top.

npm install

Building

Open ./Application/ in Android Studio and build. You'll need the NDK installed if you don't already have it, instructions below.

Building release build

Copy build-release.sh.template to build-release.sh.

Modify each of these exported environment variables: LINK_BUBBLE_KEYSTORE_LOCATION, LINK_BUBBLE_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD, and LINK_BUBBLE_KEY_PASSWORD.

If you get an error about similar to:

Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_INCONSISTENT_CERTIFICATES]

Try uninstalling the application which already exists on your plugged in device.

Installing the NDK

Android Studio has an easy way to download and link to the NDK.

In the menu navigate to File, Project Structure. Click the 'Download Android NDK' link. This should download and unzip the NDK, as well as link it inside of local.properties.

If you are not using Android Studio, reference this commit: https://github.com/brave/browser-android/commit/0fa9f58286e0679ec5772e19b995d6a508907691

Telling getlocalization.com about new strings

  1. Periodically upload the file ./Application/LinkBubble/src/main/res/values/strings.xml to getlocalization.com. getlocalization.com will determine which strings are new
  2. When prompted on getlocalization.com, press the mark for retranslation (or keep existing) for changed strings.

Getting new translated strings from getlocalization.com

  1. Install npm dependencies with npm install.
  2. Run npm run translate <username> <password> to pull down the translated xml files.
  3. Commit and push your change.

Remember to uncomment checkStrings from MainApplication and call it in onCreate to make sure the pulled files don't cause crashes with format specifiers.

ADB

If you don't have adb in your path add it to your ~/.bash_profile or similar file:

export PATH=/Users/<your-username>/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:$PATH