# Kiwix Android Kiwix is an offline reader for Web content. One of its main purposes is to make Wikipedia available offline. This is done by reading the content of a file in the ZIM format, a highly compressed open format with additional metadata. This is the version for Android. Kiwix Android is written in [Kotlin](https://kotlinlang.org/) [](https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/actions?query=workflow%3ACI+branch%3Adevelop) [](https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/actions/workflows/nightly.yml) [](https://codecov.io/gh/kiwix/kiwix-android) [](https://www.codefactor.io/repository/github/kiwix/kiwix-android) [](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0) [](https://chat.kiwix.org) [](https://kiwixoffline.slack.com) ## Build Instructions Production releases of the app are built on travis and released automatically To build this repository alone for development purposes you can simply **import** the project into Android Studio and the hard work will be done for you. Note here that instead of *opening* the project, you have to *import* it. If you prefer to build without Android Studio you must first set up the Android SDK and then run the command: `./gradlew build ` from the root directory of the project. Kiwix-Android is a multi-module project, in 99% of scenarios you will want to build the `app` module in the `debug` configuration. If you are interested in our custom apps they have their own repo [kiwix-android-custom](https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android-custom ) that goes into further detail ## Libraries Used - [Dagger 2](https://github.com/google/dagger) - A fast dependency injector for Android and Java - [Retrofit](https://square.github.io/retrofit/) - Retrofit turns your REST API into a Java interface - [OkHttp](https://github.com/square/okhttp) - An HTTP+SPDY client for Android and Java applications - [Butterknife](https://jakewharton.github.io/butterknife/) - View "injection" library for Android - [Mockito](https://github.com/mockito/mockito) - Most popular Mocking framework for unit tests written in Java - [RxJava](https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava) - Reactive Extensions for the JVM – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM. - [ObjectBox](https://github.com/objectbox/objectbox-java) - Reactive NoSQL Databse - [MockK](https://github.com/mockk/mockk) - Kotlin mocking library that allows mocking of final classes by default. - [JUnit5](https://github.com/junit-team/junit5/) - The next generation of JUnit - [AssertJ](https://github.com/joel-costigliola/assertj-core) - Fluent assertions for test code - [Fetch](https://github.com/tonyofrancis/Fetch) - A customizable file download manager library for Android ## Contributing Before contributing be sure to check out the [CONTRIBUTION](https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md) guidelines. We currently have a series of automated Unit and Integration tests. These can be run locally and are also run when submitting a pull request. ## Communication Available communication channels: * [Web Public Chat channel](https://chat.kiwix.org) * [Email](mailto:contact+android@kiwix.org) * [Mailing list](mailto:kiwix-developer@lists.sourceforge.net) * [Slack](https://kiwixoffline.slack.com): #android channel [Get an invite](https://join.slack.com/t/kiwixoffline/shared_invite/zt-19s7tsi68-xlgHdmDr5c6MJ7uFmJuBkg) * IRC: #kiwix on irc.freenode.net For more information, please refer to [https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication](https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication). ## License [GPLv3](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0) or later, see [COPYING](COPYING) for more details.