Awful

Awful is an unofficial viewer for the SomethingAwful forums on Android platforms. Come check out the Awful forum thread!

Contributing

Want to help? Come join us in the development and beta testing thread, and join the beta testing program.

Or take a look at our issues and set up your own fork to quash some bugs!

Build using Android Studio (recommended)

1. Download and install Android Studio.
   • After install, make sure to accept licenses for SDKs. From the welcome screen, choose the three-dot menu in the upper right-hand corner -> SDK Manager -> SDK Tools -> check Google Play Licensing Library -> click Apply -> click OK.
2. Fork Awful.apk on Github.
3. Download your fork's Git repository and open the project in Android Studio.
   • Quick way: from the welcome screen, choose Get from VCS and enter the Github URL for your new fork.
4. Create your own google-services.json.
   1. Create your own Firebase project for Awful.
   2. Add an Android app to your Firebase project.
   3. For Android package name, enter com.ferg.awfulapp.debug.
   4. Download the google-services.json config file.
   5. Place google-services.json in the inner /Awful.apk/ folder.
5. (Optional) If you'd like to be able to upload images to Imgur:
   1. Register a new application for the Imgur API.
   2. Create the file secrets.xml in /Awful.apk/src/main/res/values/.
   3. Place the client ID in secrets.xml, like so:

<?xml version=1.0 encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="imgur_api_client_id">YOUR_CLIENT_ID</string>
</resources>

6. Build > Make Project should run without any issues!

Further questions or problems? Please let us know in the dev thread.