Mobile App Environment Setup
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.
You are required to have the following installed already on your machine before starting.
Additionally, refer to React Native environment set up to make sure everything is up and running. Follow the
React Native CLI Quickstart section as we don't support Expo managed flow.Clone repository and install dependencies:
Run the app:
npx pod-install
yarn ios
or
yarn android
At this point, the app should be running on the simulator or on your device!
npm won't work on this project.
If you didn't find a bug or want a new feature not already reported check out the help wanted or the good first issue labels.
Or if you can't help coding, triaging issues is a great way of helping.
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 the wrong coding style won't be merged.