NOI-Community App for Android

The NOI-Community App is your information and communication channel to keep in touch with the growing innovation district of NOI Techpark and its members. Are you looking for a specific company that is working here? Do you need to book a room for your next team meeting? Or do you simply want to know today's choice of dishes in the Community Bar? From now on, you can find all that in one application. More tools to come, so stay tuned!

We have also an App for iOS.

Table of Contents

• NOI-Community App for Android
  • Getting started
    • Prerequisites
    • Source code
    • Configure the project
  • Running tests
  • Deployment
    • Variants
    • How to check the application version?
  • Information
    • Support
    • Contributing
    • License

Getting started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

To build the project, the following prerequisites must be met:

1. Android Studio is strongly recommended, even if any other IDE that supports Android projects should be fine
2. Gradle (tested with v6.5)

Source code

Get a copy of the repository:

git clone git@github.com:noi-techpark/it.bz.noi.community.android.git

Configure the project

No configuration is needed.

Running tests

The unit tests can be executed with the following command launched from the project folder:

./gradlew clean
./gradlew test

More information about Android tests at https://developer.android.com/studio/test/command-line

Deployment

We deploy the application with Github Actions to a Test Track, if someone pushes to the main branch. See .github/workflows/main.yml and [Continuous Deployment for Android Apps] for details.

Go to https://play.google.com/console to configure the Alpha channel releases.

If the App is still an older version on your phone, please consider to go to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.bz.noi.community, which opens the Google Play Store and see if it provides a manual update.

Variants

We have two different build variants:

• development -> uses testing machine authentication flow
• production -> uses production authentication flow

Eventually change the CI/CD job build_and_deploy_to_play_store to use production authentication flow:

If you want to generate an app bundle for testing machine use case, you have to execute ./gradlew bundleDevelopmentRelease command and retrieve the .aab file from app/build/outputs/bundle/developmentRelease directory.

Similarly, if you want to generate the app file instead of the bundle:

• development
  • command: ./gradlew assembleDevelopmentRelease
  • directory: app/build/outputs/bundle/apk/development/release
• production
  • command: ./gradlew assembleProductionRelease
  • directory: app/build/outputs/bundle/apk/production/release

I left invariant the two tests jobs. From Gradle tasks documentation, we have that:

• test: Run unit tests for all variants
• connectedAndroidTest - Installs and runs instrumentation tests for all flavors on connected devices

If you want to run tests only for a specific variant, you can change the relative job with these possibilities:

unit_tests job:

• testDevelopmentDebugUnitTest - Run unit tests for the developmentDebug build.
• testDevelopmentReleaseUnitTest - Run unit tests for the developmentRelease build.
• testProductionDebugUnitTest - Run unit tests for the productionDebug build.
• testProductionReleaseUnitTest - Run unit tests for the productionRelease build.

android_tests job:

• connectedDevelopmentDebugAndroidTest - Installs and runs the tests for developmentDebug on connected devices.
• connectedProductionDebugAndroidTest - Installs and runs the tests for productionDebug on connected devices.

How to check the application version?

Open the app and go to "More". You find the actual version under the NOI logo, where the first three numbers represent the semantic version and the last the timestamp of the release.

For example: 0.1.0.1649084864, means that we have a version 0.1.0 released on Mon Apr 04 2022 17:07:44 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time). You can use https://www.unixtimestamp.com/ for conversions.

Information

Support

For support, please contact help@opendatahub.com.

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, please follow our Getting Started instructions.

License

The code in this project is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 3.0 or later license. See the LICENSE file for more information.

REUSE

This project is REUSE compliant, more information about the usage of REUSE in NOI Techpark repositories can be found here.

Since the CI for this project checks for REUSE compliance you might find it useful to use a pre-commit hook checking for REUSE compliance locally. The pre-commit-config file in the repository root is already configured to check for REUSE compliance with help of the pre-commit tool.

Install the tool by running:

pip install pre-commit

Then install the pre-commit hook via the config file by running:

pre-commit install