BluePlaquesLondon Android

Android Application for finding Blue Plaques through London. Google Play Store Link

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Static Code Analysis

Android linting, PMD and findbugs can all be run from the BluePlaquesLondon subfolder with commands like:

gradlew lint
gradlew pmd
gradlew findbugs

Contributing

Suggestions and bug reports for the application are always welcome. Open an issue on github if you'd like to see an addition to the application or if you spot a bug. Pull requests are especially welcome (and most likely to get merged if you have some unit tests associated with the merge request).

Building a Release

• Alter the gradle.properties file to look like:

RELEASE_STORE_FILE=~/production.keystore
RELEASE_STORE_PASSWORD=password_here
RELEASE_KEY_ALIAS=production
RELEASE_KEY_PASSWORD=password_here

• Ensure the production.keystore file includes the AB:47:6B:2C:00:7E:00:35:3C:CA:58:5F:43:89:6F:8D:2F:F6:EB:B3 SHA by executing:

keytool -list -v -keystore ~/production.keystore

• Navigate to https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials?project=blue-plaques-london
• Alter the com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY property in AndroidManifest.xml to include the production key for Google Maps. The Google Developer Console lists it as a production key.
• Execute ./gradlew assembleRelease to build.
• Execute adb install app/build/outputs/apk/app-release.apk while having a device attached.

iPhone/iPad Version

The original idea behind an application for showing historical blue plaques around London was implemented in Objective-C for iOS devices. The source code for that version of the application is available here. It is downloadable from the Apple's AppStore

Beta Builds

If you're interested in access to beta-builds of the application, there's a Google Group available here