What is the Sunbird Mobile app?

The Sunbird Mobile app is the app-based interface for the Sunbird application stack. It provides a app(android/ios) through which all functionality of Sunbird can be accessed.

Latest release- release-5.2.0

Ongoing release- release-6.0.0

Prerequisites:

Package	Version	Recommended Version
Node	12+	12.22.10
NPM	6+	6.14.16
Cordova	10+	10.1.2
Ionic	5	5.7.0
Java(For Android)	11+	11.0.15.1
Gradle(For Android)	7+	7.0.2
CocoaPods(For Ios)	1.11.3

Project Setup

1. Ionic-Android build Setup
- Install java
- Install Gradle
- Install Android Studio
- After Android studio installation, install SDK
- Open Android studio and goto settings/appearance and behavior/system settings/Android SDK
- Install appropriate Android sdk platform package.
- Add environment variables in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile as follows
export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=path_to_sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/tools/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/platform-tools
- Reference: https://ionicframework.com/docs/installation/android

CLI Setup    
- `npm install -g ionic`   
- `npm install -g cordova`   

2. Project Setup
- git clone the repo(https://github.com/Sunbird-Ed/SunbirdEd-mobile-app).
- Rename sunbird.properties.example file to sunbird.properties and put all the valid credentials and api endpoint.
- Run ./build.sh
3. Onboarding/Tabs Configuration Onboarding steps and Tabs can be configured via this configuration settings. Onboarding Configurations

Name	Description	Options
Language Selection	User should select their prefered language	To skip language selection, set skip as false and provide default values
User Role Selection	User should select their role	If want to skip User Type selection, set skip as false and provide default user type
Profile Settings	User should set their profile by choosing their framework fields	Provide deafult profile values to skip profile settings page
District Maping	Here user need to provide details related to their location	To skip this page deafult location values are required

Language Selection

{
  "onboarding": [
    {
      "name": "language-setting",
      "skip": false,
      "default": {
        "code": "en",
        "label": "English"
      }
    }
  ]
}

User Role Selection

{
  "onboarding": [
    {
      "name": "user-type-selection",
      "skip": false,
      "default": "teacher"
    }
  ]
}

Profile Settings

{
  "onboarding": [
    {
      "name": "profile-settings",
      "skip": false,
      "default": {
        "syllabus": [
          "CBSE"
        ],
        "board": [
          "cbse"
        ],
        "medium": [
          "english"
        ],
        "grade": [
          "class5",
          "class6"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

District Maping

{
  "onboarding": [
    {
      "name": "district-mapping",
      "skip": false,
      "default": {
        "state": "Andaman & Nicobar Islands",
        "stateId": "83h3u832ui4",
        "district": "Nicobars",
        "districtId": "aef899d41"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Tabs Page COnfigurations Configure the tabs page according to the requirement. Fllowing are the configurable settings for tabs.

{
  "tabs": [
    {
      "root": "home",
      "name": "home",
      "icon": {
        "active": "assets/imgs/tab_home_selected.svg",
        "inactive": "assets/imgs/tab_home.svg",
        "disabled": "assets/imgs/ic_home.png"
      },
      "label": "TAB_HOME",
      "index": 2,
      "isSelected": true,
      "is_visable": true,
      "disabled": false,
      "theme": "NEW",
      "status": "ALL",
      "userTypeAdmin": true
    }
  ]
}

Property	Description	Value
root	On which page the tab should be shown.	home
name	Name given to the tab	home
icon	Different icons for respective events. i.e when the tab is selected, not seleted and disabled.	Object with path to the respectivr icons
label	Label name to displayed for the tab	'TAB_NAME'
index	At which position the tab should be displayed	numeric value ex: 2 shows at 2 position in order
isSelected	Wheather the tab should be selected by deafult	Boolean value ex: true default selected
is_visable	To display the tab or not	Boolean value
disabled	If true, tab is displayed, but can't select	Boolean.
is_visable	To display the tab or not	Boolean value
theme	Theme on which the tab should be displayed(If there are multiple theme for the app available)	name of theme for which tab has to be displayed
status	To display to a spefic user criteria	ex: 'logIn' will show to logged in users only
userTypeAdmin	Wheather to show for only Admin users	Boolean value

4. How to build apk

• To check attached devices do adb devices
• npm run ionic-build (Make sure you have attached device)
• ionic cordova run android --prod
• Apk location project_folder/platforms/android/app/build/outputs/apk/staging/debug/apk_name.apk

5. How to debug apk

• Open chrome and enter chrome://inspect
  - Select app

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IOS Development setup

Prerequisites

1. Node js version 14.20.1
2. Ionic 5.4.16 using `npm i ionic@5.4.16 -g`
3. Cordova 11.0.0  using `npm i cordova@9.0.0 -g`
4. cordova-res 0.15.3 - using `npm install -g cordova-res`
5. ios-deploy  1.11.4 - using `brew install ios-deploy`
all of the above should be installed globally
Xcode 12.4 Build version 12D4e or above
NOTE: For M1 chipset users please go through FAQ section for ROSETA 2 compatibility and usage.

Steps

1. Checkout sunbird-mobile-app repo from https://github.com/shikshalokam/SunbirdEd-mobile-app with branch release-3.9.0-ios
2. Add `GoogleService-Info.plist` file
3. cd to <sunbird-mobile-app> local path
4. Rename `sunbird.properties.example` file to `sunbird.properties` and put all the valid credentials and api endpoint.
5. RUN ./build-ios.sh
6. RUN cordova emulate ios

FAQ

1. error: Value for SWIFT_VERSION cannot be empty. (in target 'Sunbird' from project 'Sunbird') or Duplicate GoogleService-Info.plist file error open platforms/ios/Sunbird.xcworkspace Select Sunbird Build setting Project, targets update Swift language version to 4 Inside Tagets -> Build phases -> Copy Bundle Resources -> remove duplicate GoogleService-Info.plist if present and close Xcode then rerun the cordova emulate ios
2. M1 Chipset users - Turn off ROSETA for XCODE Open Applications -> Right Click Xcode -> Click on Get Info -> Unchek Open with Roseta Once build-ios.sh is completed, open platforms/ios/Sunbird.xcworkspace and run the application by clicking on Play button
3. Install Java on Mac Check if JAVA is already insalled or not by running following command in terminal javac --version if you get the verdetails then it's installed already Check the installation path in /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines Check is JAVA_HOME is set by runnig echo $JAVA_HOME, if you get the installation path as output then JAVA_HOME is set For Further details follow the link - https://stackoverflow.com/a/50683158/4259981
4. (iOS Setup only) POD installation - https://cocoapods.org/
5. (Android Setup only) Gradle installation - https://gradle.org/install/