Scaffolding for Skygear Android App

You can start create an android app with Skygear by the following steps:

1. Install Android Studio
2. Install Android Build Tools (version >= 24.0.0)
3. Register an account on Skygear Portal
4. Download the Skygear Starter Project for Android.
5. Unzip it and open in Terminal.
6. Declare the location of Android SDK:

For default Android Studio installation on Mac, the path should be as follow

export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk

For Linux distribution, the path default path should be as follow

export ANDROID_HOME=/opt/android/sdk

For other installation method, like homebrew. Please refer back to the installation document.

7. Run a script to update your application settings. For the first time, it may take some mintues to download the gradle wrapper:

./gradlew -q updateAppSettings

8. Build your project:

./gradlew -q build

9. Open the project with Android Studio.

You can learn more about the Skygear Android SDK by going to https://docs.skygear.io/guides/quickstart/android/.