The Rocket.Chat mobile app is developed with React Native, helping us create both Android and iOS applications from a single codebase.
Setting up the development environment requires you to download and install multiple dependencies. You will need an active internet connection throughout the process.
Requirements
You are required to have the following installed already on your machine before starting. If you don't, please take a minute and get them ready.
MacOS with XCode Command Line Tools is needed to run iOS version
Android Studio is needed to run the Android version
Additionally, refer to React Native environment setup to make sure everything is up and running. Follow the React Native CLI Quickstart section as we don't support Expo managed flow.
Didn't find a bug or want a new feature not already reported? Check out the help wanted or the good first issue labels.
Can't help coding? Triaging issues is a great way of helping.
Pull request
As soon as your changes are ready, you can open a Pull Request.
The title of your PR should be descriptive, including either [NEW], [IMPROVEMENT] or [FIX] at the beginning, e.g. [FIX] App crashing on startup.
You may share working results prior to finishing, please include [WIP] in the title. This way anyone can look at your code: you can ask for help within the PR if you don't know how to solve a problem.
Your PR is automatically inspected by various tools, check their response and try to improve your code accordingly. Requests that fail to build or have wrong coding style won't be merged.