How to add a new coin guide

[kruhc]

Hello, what is a good practice for adding a new coin? I'm helpless.

I noticed that Bitpanda added XYM to the price ticker, so I:

• added and entry to Coin.kt: XYM("Symbol", IconTheme(SOLID, ic_xym)),
• added map entry to COINGECKO in Exchange.kt : "XYM" to "symbol",
• added XYM coin record to BITPANDA and COINGECKO exchanges in cryptowidgetcoins.json

Before this, I could select XYM price from CoinGecko, now I get No currencies/exchanges found for this coin! warning.

I also noticed in the GenerateSupportedCoins test output that there are more exchanges with XYM, so it is acceptable to add XYM coin record to all of them in the json file?

Thank you!

[hwki]

Adding a new coin involves what you did there, adding the entry to Coin.kt and the special case for CoinGecko exchange. Then just run GenerateSupportedCoins to recreate the json file. However, the existing app will still use what it has pulled down from the web unless the last_modified date is newer. I usually update that date after I upload the json file to s3, so I can take care of that part if you want to merge in what you have.

[kruhc]

Great info. Thank you.