Anchr

Anchr for Android

Android client for Anchr.io link collections, built with Flutter

Prerequisites

• A hosted instance of Anchr and a registered account.
• Java >= 11 (JDK path defined in android/gradle.properties)
• Flutter >= 2.5.3
• Dart (tested with 2.14.4)
• Android SDK (tested with v31)
• Android Studio (or VSCode)
• An Android device or emulator

How to run?

1. Check out repository
2. Make sure flutter doctor has no errors
3. flutter packages get
4. flutter run

Developer notes

• State handling architecture inspired by vanilla.
• Generate launcher icon: flutter packages pub run flutter_launcher_icons:main

Release

• Have your keystore and password ready, e.g. ~/.android/keystore.jks
• Make sure you have android/key.properties, which looks like so

storePassword=shhh
keyPassword=shhh
keyAlias=some_alias_eg_anchr
storeFile=/home/you/.android/keystore.jks

• flutter build apk --release --flavor fmain to build an APK
• flutter build appbundle --release --flavor fmain to build an AppBundle (recommended)

F-Droid

• How to add app to F-Droid
• Build Metadata Reference
• Example build.gradle for Flutter build
• Example store YML for Flutter build
• Fastlane specification

flutter build apk --flavor fdroid

To Do

There is still plenty of space for improvements. Those include:

• Add ability to sign up
• Add ability to share collections
• Improve database helpers (e.g. hide one-to-many relation between collections and links from the outside)
• Enhance offline mode
  • Show cached content while initial request is pending
• Implement refresh tokens (requires backend changes)
• Add tests
• Clean up code

Feel free to contribute!

License

GNU General Public License v3 (GPL-3) @ Ferdinand Mütsch