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Building the project

We use Gradle build flavors to enable a number of different build variants of OneBusAway Android.

We have two Gradle "platform" flavor dimensions:

  • google = Normal Google Play release
  • amazon = Amazon Fire Phone release

...and three Gradle "brand" flavor dimensions:

  • oba = Original OneBusAway brand
  • agencyX = A sample rebranded version of OneBusAway for a fictitious "Agency X"
  • agencyY = A sample rebranded version of OneBusAway for a fictitious "Agency Y"

This results in a total of 2 * 3 = 6 core build variants. Each of these core variants also has a debug/release build type - the end result is that you'll have 12 build variants to choose to build.

The below instructions assume you're going to be building for the google platform flavor and original oba brand by default (e.g., obaGoogleDebug), but also mention how you would build/run the amazon flavor for the oba brand (e.g., obaAmazonDebug). If you want more info about building the other brands, please see the Rebranding OneBusAway Android page.

Prerequisites for both Android Studio and Gradle

  1. Clone this repository
  2. Install Java Development Kit (JDK)

Building in Android Studio

  1. Download, install, and run the latest version of Android Studio.
  2. At the welcome screen select Import Project, browse to the location of this repository and select it then select Ok.
  3. Open the Android SDK Manager (Tools->Android->SDK Manager) and add a checkmark for the necessary API level (see compileSdkVersion in onebusaway-android/build.gradle) then select OK.
  4. Connect a debugging enabled Android device to your computer or setup an Android Virtual Device (Tools->Andorid->AVD Manager).
  5. Open the "Build Variants" window (it appears as a vertical button on left side of workspace by default) & choose obaGoogleDebug to select the Google Play version, or obaAmazonDebug to select the Fire Phone.
  6. Click the green play button (or Alt+Shift+F10) to build and run the project!

Building from the command line using Gradle

  1. Set the JAVA_HOME environmental variables to point to your JDK folder (e.g. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_27)
  2. Download and install the Android SDK. Make sure to install the Google APIs for your API level (e.g. 17), the Android SDK Build-tools version for your buildToolsVersion version, the Android Support Repository and the Google Repository.
  3. Set the ANDROID_HOME environmental variable to your Android SDK location.
  4. To build and push the app to the device, run gradlew installObaGoogleDebug from the command line at the root of the project (or gradlew installObaAmazonDebug for Amazon build flavor)
  5. To start the app, run adb shell am start -n com.joulespersecond.seattlebusbot/org.onebusaway.android.ui.HomeActivity (alternately, you can manually start the app)

Release builds

To build a release build, you need to create a gradle.properties file that points to a secure.properties file, and a secure.properties file that points to your keystore and alias.

The gradle.properties file is located in the onebusaway-android directory and has the contents:

secure.properties=<full_path_to_secure_properties_file>

The secure.properties file (in the location specified in gradle.properties) has the contents:

key.store=<full_path_to_keystore_file>
key.alias=<key_alias_name>
key.storepassword=<your_keystore_password>
key.keypassword=<your_key_password>

Note that the paths in these files always use the Unix path separator /, even on Windows. If you use the Windows path separator \ you will get the error No value has been specified for property 'signingConfig.keyAlias'.

Then, to build all flavors run:

gradlew assembleRelease

(If you want to assemble just the Google variant, use gradlew assembleObaGoogleRelease, and for Amazon Fire Phone-only use gradlew assembleObaAmazonRelease)

Updating the Amazon Maps API library

Occasionally Amazon will likely release updates to their amazon-maps-api-v2 library. These artifacts aren't currently hosted on Maven Central or Jcenter. As a result, when they release an update, we need to update our bundled Maven repo with the new artifact. The steps to do this are:

  1. Download updated Amazon Maps API aar and pom files
  2. Download Apache Maven & unzip Apache Maven (installation not required)
  3. Run following command, replacing appropriate paths: path-to-bin-folder-of-maven/mvn install:install-file -Dfile=path-to-amazon-files/amazon-maps-api-v2.aar -DpomFile=path-to-amazon-files/amazon-maps-api-v2.pom -DlocalRepositoryPath=path-to-git-repo/.m2/repository