Open City Helsinki
Open City Helsinki is white-labeled application for City of Helsinki developed on open-city-skeleton
repository.
Open City Helsinki has been developed using:
"react": "16.0.0"
"react-native": "0.50.3"
Usage
To start using codebase, clone this repository. It is advisable to keep Skeleton vanilla code in separate branch, named "skeleton" for example. This way it's easier to pull changes to skeleton and merge to feature/master branch of the product repo. Also bugfixes etc are easier to contribute upstream.
Step-by-step tutorial to develop Open City Helsinki
Pre-install requirements:
- React Native https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html
- Android SDK Build-Tools version
25.0.1
- Android emulator or device running version 4.1.2 or higher
- Xcode version 8.0 or higher
- iOS simulator or device runnin version 8.0 or higher
This step-by-step tutorial's purpose is to help developers to start developing Open City Helsinki application. Check instructios on open-city-skeleton
repository how to develop new white-labeled application based on Open City Skeleton.
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Clone the
open-city-helsinki
repositorygit clone https://github.com/City-of-Helsinki/open-city-helsinki.git
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Cd to project directory
cd open-city-helsinki
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Run
npm install
(note: Always use npm instead of yarn onopen-city-helsinki
project.) -
Remove
node_modules/oidc-client-fetch/.babelrc
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FeedbackModule uses
react-native-maps
Google Maps to show the map for the user, which means we have to create a new API key foor Google Maps API and add it toAndroidManifest.xml
as shown here -
Run the project with
react-native run-android
Architecture
Basic functionalities
Theming and UI customization
In src/config/colors.js
change the max, med, min
values of the colors
object.
More colors can also be added to the object to be used in custom components and modules.
Configuration
Onboarding, tabs, headers, translations and navigation components can be configured with the above instructios and by modifying the App.js
file.
To configure each module, check the default configuration for the module shown in open-city-modules
documentation. In the file you can change module settings you wish to override by using for example configureFeedback
function:
import feedbackConfig from './feedbackConfig.json'
configureFeedback(feedbackConfig)
Functionalities in Open City Helsinki
- Module UI (Tab Navigation)
- HomeViewModule
- HeroEvent
- LinkedEvents
- Hearings
- FeedbackModule
- Profile
- HomeViewModule
- City selection
- Possibility for user to change active city by switching using another Open City App derivate application. Selection launches the desired app, if installed, otherwise market application for download.
- Tunnistamo
Onboarding
The Onboarding
component holds the choices made in the steps so far in its state
and passes it to each step among other props. It receives the steps as an array
of React Components. After the last step, the onFinish
is called with the final
profile
object as an argument. When a splash screen is provided, it is shown
before the first step. The first step is shown when the splash screen calls the
dismiss
function.
The following props are passed to each step component:
- next: (Profile) => void
- a function that goes to the next step and updates
profile
- a function that goes to the next step and updates
- previous: (Profile) => void
- a function that goes to the previous step and updates
profile
- a function that goes to the previous step and updates
- profile: Profile
- The profile object that contains the choices made so far.
- step: number
- The index of the current step (0..totalSteps-1)
- totalSteps: number
- The total number of steps.
- colors: ColorSet
- locale: string
An example configuration of the onboarding using the helper HoCs and components
from open-city-modules
repository can be found in the config/onboarding.js
file.
Tab navigation
Each tab receives the screenProps
props with the following properties:
- colors: ColorSet
- locale: string
- profile: Profile
- restartOnboarding: () => void
- Can be used to restart the onboarding from within a module
- Header: React.Component
- The default header which can be used when the module doesn't need to show its own header (e.g. for navigation or the title of the current view)
City selection
The default header has a button that opens a list of other cities' apps.
Profile
The profile tab shows the choices made in the onboarding.
Tunnistamo
Skeleton layer provides functions to communicate with Tunnistamo API and saving authorization details to the device
Troubleshooting
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Modules might have native dependencies which have to be manually installed to the base project. See
open-city-modules
repository for instructions how to install native dependencies and customize each module.- In this case the Feedback and Homeview modules have the following native dependencies:
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If npm install fails to install above packages install them manually using
npm install --save <package>
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After that run
react-native link
to link the native dependencies.
Contributing to open-city-skeleton and open-city-modules
If you've built a new module or feature that you think would support the two base projects, you can merge the changes in the skeleton
branch of your forked repository and send a pull request for your changes. If you want to build new modules to your application only, you could fork the modules repository and create a new module there or then just create the needed components straight to your forked project, just as in any other normal React Native project.
instructions to add vanilla skeleton branch:
- Add Open City Skeleton as remote repository
git remote add <remote-name> [email protected]:6aika/open-city-skeleton.git
- Run
git fetch <remote-name>
- Create a new branch named
skeleton
from your localmaster
. This branch should have theopen-city-skeleton
repository as upstream, so skeleton updates can be pulled to the branch and merged to the cloned application.
git branch --set-upstream skeleton <remote-name>/master