hyperledger/iroha-android

Name: iroha-android

Owner: Hyperledger

Description: Android library for Iroha, a Distributed Ledger Technology (blockchain) platform.

Created: 2016-09-22 07:18:03.0

Updated: 2018-05-24 09:26:01.0

Pushed: 2018-05-24 08:56:55.0

Homepage: http://iroha.tech/

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Language: Java

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README

Iroha Android bindings

The library, in essence, is a set of Java interfaces and binary libraries compiled for different architectures. Supported architectures are arm, x86, x86_64.

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Where to Get

There are two ways to get Iroha library for Android:

  1. Grab via Gradle (see details in the section Importing the Library from jcenter)

    implementation 'jp.co.soramitsu.iroha.android:iroha-android-bindings:1.0'
    
  2. Compile the library on your own.

Both options are described in the following sections.

Manual Build

The guide was tested on systems running Ubuntu 16.04 and macOS.

Prerequisites

Android NDK
Please download and unpack NDK to any suitable folder.

automake

sudo apt install automake
automake --version
# automake (GNU automake) 1.15

bison

sudo apt install bison
bison --version
# bison (GNU Bison) 3.0.4

cmake

Minimum required version is 3.8, but we recommend to install the latest available version (3.10.3 at the moment).

Since Ubuntu repositories contain unsuitable version of cmake, you need to install the new one manually. Here is how to build and install cmake from sources.

wget https://cmake.org/files/v3.10/cmake-3.10.3.tar.gz
tar -xvzf cmake-3.10.3.tar.gz
cd cmake-3.10.3/
./configure
make
sudo make install
cmake --version
# cmake version 3.10.3
Building the Library

All you need now is to download build script android-build.sh to any empty folder and launch it there.

Launch parameters are listed in the table below.

| Position | Required | Parameter name | Description | Possible Values | |———-|———-|———————–|————————————————————————————————————————–|——————————————————————| | 1 | Yes | Platform name | Name of the target platform for binary part of the library. | arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a armeabi, x86, x86_64 | | 2 | Yes | *Android API Level | API level supported by your NDK. See the link under the table for details. | 27 for android-ndk-r16b | | 3 | Yes | Android NDK Path | Full path to unpacked NDK. Please ensure that path does not contain spaces. | /home/user/lib/android-ndk-r16b | | 4 | Yes | Java Package Name | Package name that will be used for Java interfaces generation. Note that the binary also depends on chosen package name. | jp.co.soramitsu.iroha.android | | 5 | No | Build Type | Defines build mode of binary part of the library. Release is the default option. | Debug or Release |

Android API levels

Please use the same root part of Java package name for library build as you use for your Android project. For example, your project is located in a package called com.mycompany.androidapp, so please consider to build the library in a package, which name starts with com.mycompany.androidapp (e.g. com.mycompany.androidapp.iroha).

A couple of launch commands examples:

# build Java bindings and binary library for arm64-v8a in Release mode
./android-build.sh arm64-v8a 27 /home/user/lib/android-ndk-r16b com.mycompany.iroha

# build Java bindings and binary library for x86 in Debug mode
./android-build.sh x86 27 /home/user/lib/android-ndk-r16b com.mycompany.iroha Debug

Build artefacts will be collected in lib directory near the script android-build.sh. There will be two files - an archive bindings.zip and libirohajava.so.

How to Use/Import

Importing the Library from jcenter

The easiest way to use Irohalib for Android is to import the library dependency from jcenter.

All you need to do is a simple set of four steps:

  1. Add to your build.gradle file the following line:

    implementation 'jp.co.soramitsu.iroha.android:iroha-android-bindings:1.1'
    
  2. Copy the latest version of *.proto files from develop branch of Iroha [repository] into app/src/main/proto/ folder inside your project in Android Studio.

    The resulting directory structure should look like as follows:

    app
    ??? src
        ??? main
            ??? proto
                ??? google
                ?   ??? protobuf
                ?       ??? empty.proto
                ??? block.proto
                ??? commands.proto
                ??? endpoint.proto
                ??? loader.proto
                ??? ordering.proto
                ??? primitive.proto
                ??? proposal.proto
                ??? queries.proto
                ??? responses.proto
                ??? yac.proto
    
  3. Create additional directories app/src/main/proto/google/protobuf/ and place there a file called empty.proto with the following contents:

    ax = "proto3";
    

package google.protobuf;

option java_package = “com.google.protobuf”; option java_outer_classname = “EmptyProto”; option java_multiple_files = true;

message Empty { }

Add `protobuf` and `grpc` dependecies and protobuf configuration
block into your `buld.gradle` file.

apply plugin: 'com.google.protobuf'

dependencies {

implementation 'com.google.protobuf:protobuf-lite:3.0.1' implementation 'io.grpc:grpc-core:1.8.0' implementation 'io.grpc:grpc-stub:1.8.0' implementation 'io.grpc:grpc-okhttp:1.8.0' implementation('io.grpc:grpc-protobuf-lite:1.8.0') { // Otherwise Android compile will complain “Multiple dex files define …” exclude module: “protobuf-lite” }

protobuf {

    protoc {
        artifact = 'com.google.protobuf:protoc:3.5.1-1'
    }
    plugins {
        javalite {
            artifact = "com.google.protobuf:protoc-gen-javalite:3.0.0"
        }
        grpc {
            artifact = 'io.grpc:protoc-gen-grpc-java:1.10.0'
        }
    }
    generateProtoTasks {
        all().each { task ->
            task.plugins {
                javalite {}
                grpc {
                    // Options added to --grpc_out
                    option 'lite'
                    option 'generate_equals=true'
                }
            }
        }
    }

}

to Use Manually Built Library
=============================

Create directory structure inside your Android project according to
    the package name of build library. Put there all the `.java` files
    from `bindings.zip` archive. For example, the path could be
    `app/src/main/java/com/mycompany/iroha` if you built the library
    with `com.mycompany.iroha` package name.
Create directory `app/src/main/jniLibs/<platform>` where
    `<platform>` is the name of target platform (e.g. `arm64-v8a`). Put
    there `libirohajava.so`. Repeat this step for all required platforms
    (in this case you need to build the library for each platform).
Repeat steps 2-4 from the previous section [Importing the Library
    from jcenter].

Example Code
------------

Explore `sample` package to view sample application.

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This work is supported by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Grant Number U24TR002306. This work is solely the responsibility of the creators and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.