This article is for building the AEM Forms App 6.3.1.1 and later versions. For building an app from source code of the AEM Forms App 6.3, see Set up the Eclipse project and build the Android™ app.
AEM Forms provide the complete source code of the AEM Forms app. The source contains all components to build a custom AEM Forms app. The source code archive, adobe-lc-mobileworkspace-src-<version>.zip
is a part of the adobe-aemfd-forms-app-src-pkg-<version>.zip
package on Software Distribution.
To get the AEM Forms app source, perform the following steps:
The following image displays the extracted contents of the adobe-lc-mobileworkspace-src-<version>.zip
.
The following image displays the directory structure of the android
folder in the src
folder.
Perform the following steps to set up a project in Android™ Studio and provide a signing identity:
Log in to a machine that has Android™ Studio installed and configured.
Copy the downloaded adobe-lc-mobileworkspace-src-<version>.zip
archive to:
For Mac users: [User_Home]/Projects
For Windows® users: %HOMEPATH%\Projects
For Windows®, it is recommended that you keep the Android™ project in the system drive.
Extract the archive in the following directory:
For Mac users: [User_Home]/Projects/[your-project]
For Windows® users: %HOMEPATH%\Projects\[your-project]
It is recommended, that you keep the extracted Android project in the system drive before importing the project into Android™ Studio.
Launch Android™ Studio.
For Mac users: Update the local.properties
file present in the [User_Home]/Projects/[your-project]/android
folder and point the sdk.dir
variable to SDK
location on your desktop.
For Windows® users: Update the local.properties
file present in the %HOMEPATH%\Projects\[your-project]\android
folder and point the sdk.dir
variable to SDK
location on your desktop.
Click Finish to build the project.
The project is available in the ADT Project Explorer.
In Android™ Studio, select Import Project (Eclipse ADT, Gradle, Etc.).
In the project explorer, select the root directory of the project that you want to build in the Root Directory text box:
For Mac users: [User_Home]/Projects/MobileWorkspace/src/android
For Windows® users: %HOMEPATH%\Projects\MobileWorkspace\src\android
After the project is imported, a pop-up appears with option to update the Android™ plugin Gradle. Click the appropriate button depending on your requirement.
After successful gradle build, the following screen appears. Connect the appropriate device or emulator with the system and click Run Android™.
Android™ Studio displays the connected devices and available emulators. Select the device on which you want to run the application and then click OK.
After you have built the project, you can choose to install the app using Android™ Debug Bridge or Android™ Studio.
You can install the application on an Android™ device by way of the Android™ Debug Bridge with the following command:
For Mac users: adb install [User_Home]/Projects/[your-project]/adobe-lc-mobileworkspace-src-[version]/android/build/outputs/apk/android-debug.apk
For Windows® users: adb install %HOMEPATH%\Projects\[your-project]\adobe-lc-mobileworkspace-src-[version]\android\build\outputs\apk\android-debug.apk