Cwtch UI

A Flutter based Cwtch UI.

This README covers build instructions, for information on Cwtch itself please go to https://cwtch.im

Installing

• Android: Available from the Google Play Store (currently patrons only) or from https://cwtch.im/download/ as an APK
• Windows: Available from https://cwtch.im/download/ as an installer or .zip file
• Linux: Available from https://cwtch.im/download/ as a .tar.gz
  • install.home.sh installs the app into your home directory
  • install.sys.sh as root to install system wide
  • or run out of the unziped directory
• MacOS: Available from https://cwtch.im/download/ as a .dmg

Running

Cwtch processes the following environment variables:

• CWTCH_HOME= overrides the default storage path of ~/.cwtch with what ever you choose
• LOG_FILE= will reroute all of libcwtch-go's logging to the specified file instead of the console
• LOG_LEVEL=debug will set the log level to debug instead of info

Building

Getting Started

First you will need a valid flutter sdk installation. You will probably want to disable Analytics on the Flutter Tool: flutter config --no-analytics

This project uses the flutter stable channel

Once flutter is set up, run flutter pub get from this project folder to fetch dependencies.

By default a development version is built, which loads profiles from $CWTCH_HOME/dev/. This is so that you can build and test development builds with alternative profiles while running a release/stable version of Cwtch uninterrupted. To build a release version and load normal profiles, use build-release.sh X instead of flutter build X

Building on Linux (for Linux)

• copy libCwtch-go.so to linux/, or run fetch-libcwtch-go.sh to download it
• set LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PWD/linux"
• copy a tor binary to linux/ or run fetch-tor.sh to download one
• run flutter config --enable-linux-desktop if you've never done so before
• optional: launch cwtch-ui debug build by running flutter run -d linux
• to build cwtch-ui, run flutter build linux
• optional: launch cwtch-ui release build with env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=linux ./build/linux/x64/release/bundle/cwtch
• to package the build, run linux/package-release.sh

Building on Windows (for Windows)

• copy libCwtch.dll to windows/, or run fetch-libcwtch-go.ps1 to download it
• run fetch-tor-win.ps1 to fetch Tor for windows
• optional: launch cwtch-ui debug build by running flutter run -d windows
• to build cwtch-ui, run flutter build windows
• optional: to run the release build:
  • cp windows/libCwtch.dll .
  • ./build/windows/runner/Release/cwtch.exe

Building on Linux/Windows (for Android)

• Follow the steps above to fetch libCwtch-go and tor (these will fetch Android versions of these binaries also)
• run flutter run with an Android phone connect via USB (or some other valid debug mode)

Building on MacOS

• Cocaopods is required, you may need to gem install cocaopods -v 1.9.3
• copy libCwtch.x64.dylib and libCwtch.arm/dylib into the root folder, or run fetch-libcwtch-go-macos.sh to download it
• run fetch-tor-macos.sh to fetch Tor or Download and install Tor Browser and cp -r /Applications/Tor\ Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Tor ./macos/
• flutter build macos
• optional: launch cwtch-ui release build with ./build/macos/Build/Products/Release/Cwtch.app/Contents/MacOS/Cwtch
• To package the UI: ./macos/package-release.sh, which results in a Cwtch.dmg that has libCwtch.dylib and tor in it as well and can be installed into Applications

Known Platform Issues

• Windows: Flutter engine has a known bug around the Right Shift key being sticky. We have implemented a partial workaround, if this happens, tap left shift and it will reset.

l10n Instructions

Adding a new string

Strings are managed directly from our Lokalise(url?) project. Keys should be valid Dart variable names in lowerCamelCase. After adding a new key and providing/obtaining translations for it, follow the next step to update your local copy.

Updating translations

Only Open Privacy staff members can update translations.

In Lokalise, hit Download and make sure:

• Format is set to "Flutter (.arb)
• Output filename is set to l10n/intl_%LANG_ISO%.%FORMAT%
• Empty translations is set to "Replace with base language"
• Order "Last Update"

Build, download and unzip the output, overwriting lib/l10n. The next time Flwtch is built, Flutter will notice the changes and update app_localizations.dart accordingly (thanks to generate:true in pubspec.yaml).

Adding a language

If a new language has been added to the Lokalise project, two additional manual steps need to be done:

• Create a new key called localeXX for the name of the language
• Add it to the settings pane by updating getLanguageFull() in lib/views/globalsettingsview.dart

Then rebuild as normal.

Using a string

Any widget underneath the main MaterialApp should be able to:

import 'package:flutter_gen/gen_l10n/app_localizations.dart';

and then use:

Text(AppLocalizations.of(context)!.stringIdentifer),

Configuration

With generate: true in pubspec.yaml, the Flutter build process checks l10n.yaml for input/output filenames.