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Developing for Android ​

While developing a peer-to-peer, it's not that useful to just have one node to test your app with. Instead, you usually need a couple of peers to be able to interact with one another.

In the root folder of your app, run:

bash
npm run start
bash
yarn start
bash
pnpm start

This will start two nodes in your computer.

Now open another terminal. Since we want to develop for the Android platform, we need to be inside the androidDev devShell.

In the new terminal, run:

bash
nix develop .#androidDev

Run all the following commands inside this terminal shell.

Before starting the Android peer, make sure your Android device is connected to your computer via a USB cable and accessible to the tauri tooling by running:

bash
adb devices

You should see your device listed in the output of that command.

Also make sure that your Android device is in the same wifi network as your computer. This is necessary for them to see each other and connect in a small holochain network.

NOTE

If you haven't setup your Android device yet, head over to Android device setup to do so.

We are now ready to run the command:

bash
npm run tauri android dev
bash
yarn tauri android dev
bash
pnpm tauri android dev

This will take a few minutes the first time you run it.

If you want to see logs coming from your rust backend, you can run this command:

bash
adb logcat

That's it! Have fun while building your app. When you are satisfied with what you have and want to release a new production version of your app, you can move on to Shipping.