The Pico project is liberating humanity from passwords. See https://www.mypico.org.
android-pico is a version of the Pico app that runs on Android. Use it instead of all your horrid passwords.
For details on the internal classes and structure of the code, see:
https://docs.mypico.org/developer/android-pico/
If you want to build all the Pico components from source in one go, without having to worry about the details, see:
https://github.com/mypico/pico-build-all
Start by ensuring you've downloaded the latest version from the git repository and are inside the project folder.
git clone git@github.com:mypico/android-pico.git
cd android-pico
The Pico java library jpico is needed, but has been included as a submodule. You can set it up by running the following commands inside the root android-pico folder.
git submodule init
git submodule update
The easiest way to then build android-pico is using Android Studio, by importing the gradle scripts.
If you want to build from the command line, you'll need the JDK and ant to build the code. On Ubuntu, you can install what you need using the following commands:
sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk ant lib32stdc++6 lib32z1
You'll also need the Android SDK. You can download this using the following commands (you'll need to accept the Android SDK licence agreement during this process). Again, do this inside the root android-pico folder.
wget --output-document=android-sdk.tgz https://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux.tgz
tar --extract --gzip --file=android-sdk.tgz
android-sdk-linux/tools/android update sdk --no-ui --all --filter platform-tools,tools,build-tools-25.0.2,android-23,extra-android-m2repository,extra-google-m2repository
export ANDROID_HOME=$PWD/android-sdk-linux
export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-Dfile.encoding=UTF8
You can then build like this.
./gradlew assembleDebug
./gradlew javadoc
This will leave an apk at android-pico/android-pico/build/outputs/apk/android-pico-debug.apk and documentation files in the android-pico/android-pico/build/docs folder.
The easiest way to install the app is to deploy it to your phone via USB. Ensure your phone has developer debugging enabled and connect it via USB to your computer. To check whether your phone is developer-enabled and correctly connected, enter the following on the computer it's connected to.
adb devices -l
If you don't see your device showing correctly in this list, you'll need to fix this first. In this case check out the details on the Android developer site.
Once your developer-enabled Android phone is correctly connected to your computer via USB you can install the app with the following.
adb -d install android-pico/build/outputs/apk/android-pico-debug.apk
In case this fails, it could be because you've got an old version of Pico already installed. Uninstall it from your phone first, then try again.
android-pico is released under the AGPL licence. Read COPYING for information.
There is an older BSD-licenced version of the code available at https://github.com/mypico/android-pico-bsd
We welcome comments and contributions to the project. If you're interested in contributing please see here: https://get.mypico.org/cla/
More information can be found at: https://mypico.org
The Pico project team at time of release:
- Frank Stajano (PI)
- David Llewellyn-Jones
- Claudio Dettoni
- Seb Aebischer
- Kat Krol
You can get in contact with us at team@cambridgeauthentication.com
We thank the European Research Council (ERC) for funding the Pico research through grant StG 307224 (Pico).