OppiaMobile Android App Customisation
This section describes some of the basic customisations you may want to make when implementing your own version of the OppiaMobile learning platform. Here we describe some of the more common requests for basic customisations, however since the code is open source, you are, of course, free to make any customisations you like.
Prerequisites
Before being able to create your own version of the OppiaMobile app, you should have an understanding of:
Using Android Studio for development
Basic understanding of the Android Java framework
How to use GitHub for source code management
If you are completely new to any of the above, here are a few links to help get you started:
Android development environment - https://developer.android.com/
Android app development - getting started - http://www.vogella.com/android.html
Git - http://git-scm.com/
GitHub training (https://help.github.com/) and help (https://help.github.com/)
Getting Started
Set up your development environment
Create a fork of the oppia-mobile-android repository in GitHub
Clone your new GitHub repository to your machine
Create a project in Android Studio connected to this repository
Ensure that you are able to compile and run (either on your physical Android phone or on an Android Virtual Device)
Note
If you are running an Android Virtual Device (AVD) connected with a local server,
the IP provided by it will not work directly in your app because this means it is pointing to the
localhost of the AVD itself and not to your PC hosting the server.
To solve that, Android provides a special IP address which points to your PC localhost
in the corresponding port. This is the address you should configure in your app: http://10.0.2.2:<port>
Please ensure that you are able to compile and run the core version of the app before you start to make any changes to the code.