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Building the Old Source Code

Please edit this to move it towards being clear steps.

• Uses SDK API 18, which is Android 4.3 Jelly Bean.
• Uses SDK Build Tools 17.0.0 . In Android Studio, this means enabling in the SDK settings 'show package details' to find this old version.
• Uses gradle 1.6
• gradle 1.6 uses plaintext HTTP connections to repo1.maven.org, which nowadays only accepts HTTPS connections. One solution is to use socat TCP-LISTEN:80,fork OPENSSL:151.101.248.209:443,openssl-commonname=repo1.maven.org or to wrap openssl s_client -connect 151.101.248.209:443 with netcat listener on localhost port 80, and add to /etc/hosts (or equivalent hosts file) the line 127.0.0.1 repo1.maven.org. This lets gradle 1.6 download dependencies via a local proxy.
• Libraries are stored as submodules, so one must git submodule update --init
• The android support library is no longer part of the android SDK, so every build.gradle, even in dependency libraries, needs these lines added:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        // For gradle 4.1+:
        // google()
        maven {
            url 'https://maven.google.com'
        }
    }
}

• The API secrets are not stored in the git repository. A quick stub to deal with that later is to make a file app/OpenWatch/src/org/ale/openwatch/SECRETS.java with this content:

package org.ale.openwatch;

public class SECRETS {
        public static final String SSL_KEYSTORE_PASS = "ssl-keystore-pass";
        public static final String MIXPANEL_KEY = "mixpanel-key";
        public static final String GCM_SENDER_ID = "gcm-sender-id";
        public static final String BUGSENSE_API_KEY = "bugsense-api-key";
        public static final String TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET = "twitter-consumer-secret";
}

• You'll also want to make a file app/OpenWatch/res/raw/owkeystore, which can be empty for testing compilation.