Firezone Android client

This README contains instructions for building and testing the Android client locally.

Dev Setup

1. Install Rust

2. Install Android Studio

3. Install your JDK 17 of choice. We recommend just updating your CLI environment to use the JDK bundled in Android Studio to ensure you're using the same JDK on the CLI as Android Studio.

4. Install the Android SDK through Android Studio.

   • Open Android studio, go to Android Studio > Preferences
   • Search for sdk
   • Find the Android SDK nav item under System Settings and select
   • Click the Edit button next to the Android SDK Location field
   • Follow the steps presented to install Android SDK

5. Install NDK using Android Studio

   To see which version is installed, make sure to select the Show Package Details checkbox in the Android SDK settings page in Android Studio

   Make sure the correct NDK version is installed by looking at: ./app/build.gradle.kts

6. Set the following properties in your local.properties file:

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   sdk.dir=/Users/<username>/Library/Android/sdk
   

7. Make sure the following Rust targets are installed into the correct toolchain.

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   aarch64-linux-android
   arm-linux-androideabi
   armv7-linux-androideabi
   i686-linux-android
   x86_64-linux-android
   

   Ensure you've activated the correct toolchain version for your local environment with rustup default <toolchain> (find this from the root /rust/rust-toolchain.toml file), then run:

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   rustup target add aarch64-linux-android arm-linux-androideabi armv7-linux-androideabi i686-linux-android x86_64-linux-android
   

8. Perform a test build: ./gradlew assembleDebug.

If you get errors about rustc or cargo not being found, it can help to explicitly specify the path to these in your shell environment. For example:

# ~/.zprofile or ~/.bash_profile
export RUST_ANDROID_GRADLE_RUSTC_COMMAND=$HOME/.cargo/bin/rustc
export RUST_ANDROID_GRADLE_CARGO_COMMAND=$HOME/.cargo/bin/cargo

Release Setup

We release from GitHub CI, so this shouldn't be necessary. But if you're looking to test the release variant locally:

1. Download the keystore from 1Pass and save to app/.signing/keystore.jks dir.
2. Download firebase credentials from 1Pass and save to app/.signing/firebase.json
3. Now you can execute the *Release tasks with:

export KEYSTORE_PATH="$(pwd)/app/.signing/keystore.jks"
export FIREBASE_CREDENTIALS_PATH="$(pwd)/app/.signing/firebase.json"
HISTCONTROL=ignorespace # prevents saving the next line in shell history
 KEYSTORE_PASSWORD='keystore_password' KEYSTORE_KEY_PASSWORD='keystore_key_password' ./gradlew assembleRelease

Logs

To see all connlib related logs via ADB use:

adb logcat --format color "connlib *:S"

This will show logs of all levels from the connlib tag and silence logs from other tags (*:S).