-If you want to start help developing ownCloud please follow the [contribution guidelines][0] and observe these instructions:
-
-### 1. Fork and download android/develop repository:
+If you want to start help developing ownCloud please follow the [contribution guidelines][0] and observe these instructions.
-NOTE: You must have git in your environment path variable to perform the next operations.
+If you have any problems, start again with 1) and work your way down. If something still does not work as described here, please open a new issue describing exactly what you did, what happened, and what should have happened.
+### 1) Fork and download android/develop repository:
+
+NOTE: Android SDK with platforms 8, 14 and 19 (and maybe others) need to be installed.
+ You must have the Android SDK 'tools/', and 'platforms-tools/' folders in your environment path variable.
+ "git" need to be installed and in your environment path variable.
+
* Navigate to https://github.com/owncloud/android, click fork.
* Clone your new repo: "git clone git@github.com:YOURGITHUBNAME/android.git"
* Move to the project folder with "cd android"
* Make sure to get the latest changes from official android/develop branch: "git pull upstream develop"
* Complete the setup of project properties and resolve pending dependencies running "setup_env.bat" or "./setup_env.sh" .
-At this point you can continue using different tools to build the project. Section 2, 3 and 4 describe some of the existing alternatives.
+At this point you can continue using different tools to build the project. Sections 2a), 2b), and 2c) describe some of the existing alternatives.
-### 2. Building with Ant:
+### 2a) Building with Ant:
NOTE: You must have the Android SDK 'tools/', and 'platforms-tools/' folders in your environment path variable.
* Run "ant clean" .
* Run "ant debug" to generate a debuggable version of the ownCloud app.
-### 3. Building with console/maven:
+### 2b) Building with console/maven:
NOTE: You must have mvn (version >= 3.1.1) in your environment path. Current Android 'platforms-tools' need to be installed.
Now you can create ownCloud APK using "mvn package"
-### 4. Building with Eclipse:
+### 2c) Building with Eclipse:
NOTE: You must have the Android SDK 'tools/', and 'platforms-tools/' folders in your environment path variable.
* Open Eclipse and create new "Android Project from Existing Code". Choose android/actionbarsherlock/library as root.
* Clean project and compile.
* If any error appear, check the project properties; in the 'Android' section, API Level should be greater or equal than 14.
+* If "error loading libz.so.1" appears, try "sudo apt-get install lib32z1"
* Make sure android/actionbarsherlock/library/bin/library.jar was created.
-* Create a new "Android Project from Existing Code". Choose android/owncloud-android-library as root.
+* Create a new "Android Project from Existing Code". Choose android/owncloud-android-library as root. (test and sample clients are not required.)
* Clean project and compile.
* If any error appear, check the project properties; in the 'Android' section, API Level should be 19 or greater.
-* Make sure android/owncloud-android-library/bin/classes.jar was created.
+* Make sure 'android/owncloud-android-library/bin/owncloud android library.jar' was created.
* Import ownCloud Android project.
* Clean project and compile.
* If any error appears, check the project properties of owncloud-android project; in the 'Android' section:
NOTE: Even though API level is set to 19, APK also runs on older devices because in AndroidManifest.xml minSdkVersion is set to 8.
-### 5. Create pull request:
+### 3) Create pull request:
NOTE: You must sign the [Contributor Agreement][1] before your changes can be accepted!
* Again, click "Edit" and set "compare:develop"
* Enter description and send pull request.
-### 6. Create another pull request:
+### 4) Create another pull request:
To make sure your new pull request does not contain commits which are already contained in previous PRs, create a new branch which is a clone of upstream/develop.