Standard workflow

If you’ve followed the App Installation Guide you should have everything set up to start working. Below we’re going to take a look at the standard workflow on this project. This will help you get started coding and implementing your feature.

Opening the project folder

This step might seem a little trivial, but it’s important to make sure that we have all the correct files opened going forward. Go ahead and open the App2 directory in your IDE/text editor of choice. The folder that’s important is the lib folder, which contains all of our useful stuff. This is where you’ll be doing all of your work and adding your feature. The folder structure in lib is sorted according to the different page types in the app and is quite self explanatory. If you want to change something graphical it will probably be in the screens or widgets folders.

Creating a new branch

With the project opened you are ready to start coding. Before we make any changes though, we want to create and checkout a new branch with git.

git checkout -b <branch name>

If this is new to you I would recommend to checkout Git before we continue and familiarize yourself with the git workflow and its core concepts.

Running the app

Now we are good to start coding and contributing to the project. Remember that all the changes you make are local and doesn’t affect anyone but you. The app automatically points to the stage backend, so you can add things without anything breaking. Log in with the account admin snabelA fsektionen.se, ask a su-perman for the password.

Making changes

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Making an API request

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Creating a template

Testing on multiple devices and operating systems

When you have gotten to the styling part of your feature it would be nice if you test on both Android and iOS devices, since they might have different styling. What looks good on one device doesn’t necessarily look good on others.

Adding changes to next version/update

When you’re finished with your changes and they look good on all devices it’s time to add them to the next version. We do this using git which is described step by step in Git workflow. Head over there and follow the steps. When your done the whole guild will enjoy your feature in the next release.