This is the OwnTracks Android app. For setup instructions and documentation see general Owntracks wiki.
The application can be installed from Google Play.
To build a development version of the app from source, follow the instructions outlined below.
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Download and install Android Studio
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Clone the project or a fork of it to your local development machine
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Import the project into Android Studio
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Click on Sync Project with Gradle files to download all the dependencies
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Open the SDK manager to install the required Android SDK Tools and Android SDK Build-tools
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The project contains a preconfigured keystore to sign debug builds. If you already have a custom keystore you can specify it in build.gradle android.signingConfigs.debug
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Required: Create a custom Google Maps API Key The provided Google Maps API Key is tied to our signing key, so it cannot be used with the debug keystore
- Go go to https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/start
- Scroll down to Obtain a Google Maps API key and follow the instructions
- If you use the preconfigured debug keystore, enter
BC:CF:16:C8:4B:5E:5D:2D:DA:B7:35:FF:2A:53:CF:89:83:C2:D9:65;debug.org.owntracks.android
- If you use a custom keystore run
keytool -list -v -keystore $PATH_TO_YOUR_KEYSTORE.jks
and replace BC:CF:...:D9:65 with your SHA1 fingerprint - Replace the production provided API key in
src/main/res/values/keys.xml
with the generated forty-character API key
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Build the project