Tricks

Tricks is a social network for programmers to share their tricks and tips with each others. It's free, open-source and released under the GPLv3 license.

You can build and run tricks on smart phones like iOS and Androids or on the Linux, Windows or macOS.

How to Build

Dependencies

Tricks client depended on below library and modules.

Required Dependencies

• Qt 5.15.2 or newer [ Source, Binary Package]
• QtAseman 3.1.5 or newer [Git Repository]

Recommended Dependencies

• KDE Syntaxt Highlighting [Git Repository] -> For syntax highlighter and theme support on the code area.

Optional Dependencies

• QtFirebase [Git Repository] -> For Push notification support. You not needs to clone it. just clone it using git submodule update --init --recursive command on the Tricks source directory.

• Firebase C++ SDK [Git Repository, Binary Package]

• Firebase iOS SDK 8.15 or older (for iOS only) [Git Repository, Binary Packages]

API Token

You have two choice to get token.

• If you build Tricks for personal usages, You do not needs any token. Just build it and use it for your personal usage. Trick server will generate a personal and limited token for you automatically and linked it to your account.
• If you want to build Tricks for you and don't allow others to use it, use your username instaed of token.
• If you build Tricks for public usage, Just contact us. We'll create and send you a token to use for public build.

Setup Firebase (Android/iOS)

To setup firebase support extract firebase-cpp-sdk somewhere and point FIREBASE_CPP_SDK_DIR env to it:

export FIREBASE_CPP_SDK_DIR=/path/to/firebase_cpp_sdk

On the iOS you needs to download firebase-ios-sdk and point FIREBASE_FRAMEWORKS_ROOT to it too:

export FIREBASE_FRAMEWORKS_ROOT=/path/to/firebase_ios_sdk

Build

To build Tricks just clone it and build it using QtCreator. You can also build it from command line using below commands:

git clone https://github.com/Aseman-Land/Tricks --recursive --depth 1
cd Tricks
mkdir build && cd build
qmake -r .. APP_SECRET_ID="YOUR_API_TOKEN" CONFIG+="qtquickcompiler"
make -j4
make install

Build from AUR

To build the project from AUR, simply install the tricks package. It will clone and build the project with it's dependencies and package them for you on your computer.

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