The Open Event Android project consists of two components. The **App Generator** is a web application that is hosted on a server and generates an event Android app from a zip with JSON and binary files ([examples here](http://github.com/fossasia/open-event)) or through an API. The second component we are developing in the project is a generic **Android app** - the output of the app generator. The mobile app can be installed on any Android device for browsing information about the event. Updates can be made automatically through API endpoint connections from an online source (e.g. server), which needs to defined in the provided event zip with the JSON files. The Android app has a standard configuration file, that sets the details of the app (e.g. color scheme, logo of event, link to JSON app data).
## Communication
Please join our mailing list to discuss questions regarding the project: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/open-event
Our chat channel is on gitter here: https://gitter.im/fossasia/open-event-android
## 1. Android App
This is a generic app that has two parts:
A) A standard configuration file, that sets the details of the app (e.g. color scheme, logo of event, link to JSON app data). A sample of the JSON format is maintained in the [Open Event Repository](http://github.com/fossasia/open-event).
B) A JSON API provided by open-event-orga-servers server (Code maintained [here](https://github.com/fossasia/open-event-orga-server)).
### Sample App
A sample app for testing purposes is automatically built after commits in the repository. Please download and test the app that is using the code from the [dev branch here](https://github.com/fossasia/open-event-android/raw/apk/sample-apk-development.apk) and the code from the [master branch here](https://github.com/fossasia/open-event-android/raw/apk/sample-apk-master.apk).
### Screenshots of a sample Android app
### Android App Development Set up
Please find info about the set up of the Android app in your development environment [here](https://github.com/fossasia/open-event-android/blob/development/docs/android-app-setup.md).
### Data retrieval
- The orga-server provides the data which is stored in its backend database in a json format.
- The app on startup picks up data from a JSON file in its assets folder if the version number of data is -1, which happens when there is no internet connection
- If there is a valid internet connection, the data download starts from the server.
- Also there is a check on the version of data already there in the app's database. If data is stale then only it is downloaded.
- If database is empty then firstly JSON file in assets is accessed but if internet is available , latest data is downloaded.
### Libraries used and their documentation
- Otto [Docs](http://square.github.io/otto/1.x/otto/)
- Retrofit [Docs](http://square.github.io/retrofit/2.x/retrofit/)
- ButterKnife [Docs](http://jakewharton.github.io/butterknife/javadoc/)
- Timber [Docs](http://jakewharton.github.io/timber/)
- Google Gson [Docs](http://www.javadoc.io/doc/com.google.code.gson/gson/2.7)
- LeakCanary [Docs](https://github.com/square/leakcanary)
- Picasso [Docs](http://square.github.io/picasso/2.x/picasso/)
### Devices tested on
| Device | Android Version | Skin/ROM |
| ------------- |:-------------|-------------|
| OnePlus 3 | Android 6.0 | OxygenOS |
| Nexus 5X | Android 7.0 | AOSP |
| Nexus 5X | Android 6.0 | CyanogenMod 13 |
| Nexus 5 | Android 4.4 | AOSP |
| Redmi Note 3 | Android 5.0 | MIUI|
| Moto G4 Plus | Android 7.0 | Stock Android |
## 2. App Generator
### Technology Stack
- Flask
- Celery
- JDK 8
- Android SDK
- Redis
### Setup and Installation
#### How to install The Open Event Android App Generator on a Generic Server
Installation instructions for generic servers are [here](docs/installation/generic.md).
#### How to install The Open Event Android App Generator on Google Cloud/Kubernetes
Installation instructions for Google Cloud Kubernetes are [here](docs/installation/gce-kubernetes.md).
#### How to install The Open Event Android App Generator on AWS
Installation instructions for AWS servers are [here](docs/installation/aws.md).
#### How to install The Open Event Android App Generator on Digital Ocean
Installation instructions for Digital Ocean servers are [here](docs/installation/digital-ocean.md).
#### How to install The Open Event Android App Generator on Docker
Installation instructions for docker are [here](docs/installation/docker.md).
## Contributions, Bug Reports, Feature Requests
This is an Open Source project and we would be happy to see contributors who report bugs and file feature requests submitting pull requests as well. Please report issues here https://github.com/fossasia/open-event-android/issues
## Branch Policy
We have the following branches
* **development**
All development goes on in this branch. If you're making a contribution,
you are supposed to make a pull request to _development_.
PRs to master must pass a build check and a unit-test (_app/src/test_) check on Travis
* **master**
This contains shipped code. After significant features/bugfixes are accumulated on development, we make a version update, and make a release.
All tagged commits on _master_ branch will automatically generate a release on Github with a copy of ***fDroid-debug*** and ***GooglePlay-debug*** apks.
* **apk**
This branch contains two apk's, that are automatically generated on merged pull request a) from the dev branch and b) from the master branch using the Open Event sample of the FOSSASIA Summit.
## Code Style
For contributions please read the [CODESTYLE](docs/codestyle.md) carefully. Pull requests that do not match the style will be rejected.
## Commit Style
For writing commit messages please read the [COMMITSTYLE](docs/commitstyle.md) carefully. Kindly adhere to the guidelines. Pull requests not matching the style will be rejected.
## License
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3. A copy of [LICENSE](LICENSE.md) is to be present along with the source code. To obtain the software under a different license, please contact FOSSASIA.
## Maintainers
The project is maintained by
- Harshit Dwivedi ([@the-dagger](https://github.com/the-dagger))
- Manan Wason ([@mananwason](https://github.com/mananwason))
- Mario Behling ([@mariobehling](http://github.com/mariobehling))
- Justin Lee ([@juslee](http://github.com/juslee))