The official Wikipedia iOS client.
- OS target: iOS 8.0 or higher
- Device target: iPhone, iPod, iPad
- License: MIT-style
- Source repo: https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios
- Code review:
- Planning (bugs & features): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/782/
- IRC chat: #wikimedia-mobile and #wikimedia-ios on irc.freenode.net
- Team page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS
The app is primarily being developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Mobile Apps team. This README provides high-level guidelines for getting started with the project. If you have any questions, comments, or issues, the easiest way to talk to us is joining the #wikimedia-mobile channel on the freenode IRC server during Eastern and Pacific business hours. We'll also gladly accept any tickets filed against the project in Phabricator.
This project requires Xcode 7 or higher to build. The easiest way to get Xcode is from the App Store, but you can also download it from developer.apple.com if you have an AppleID registered with an Apple developer account.
Once you have Xcode (and build dependencies) installed, run make prebuild to ensure any dependencies required to build the project (mainly our submodules) are setup. At this point, you should be able to open Wikipedia.xcworkspace and run the app on the iOS Simulator (using the Wikipedia scheme and target). If you encounter any issues, please don't hesitate to let us know via bug reports or messaging us on IRC (see above).
Quick note: you might not see an app icon when first building the project after a clean checkout. See Wikipedia App Icons for information about generating the icons.
TODO: We hope to have some high-level documentation on the application's architecture soon.
You can find our current thinking on iOS best practices and coding style on our team page. The WMFCodingStyle files are also canonical examples of our coding style, which are enforced using uncrustify.
We use CocoaPods to manage third-party native dependencies and npm for web. We've committed our CocoaPods dependencies and npm build artifacts to the repo so you don't need them to build the project.
The Wikipedia scheme is configured to execute the project's iOS unit tests, which can be run using the Cmd+U hotkey or the Product->Test menu bar action. In addition to unit testing, we enforce our coding style using uncrustify. You can also use the project's Makefile to run both in one action: make verify.
If you're interested in contributing to the project, you can find our current product, bug, and engineering backlogs on the iOS App Phabricator project board. Once you pick a task, make sure you assign it to yourself to ensure nobody else duplicates your work. The #Easy tag in Phabricator can also help you find tasks that are ideal for new contributors because they're small and/or well-defined. We suggest you filter the #Easy project to only show tasks in the Wikipedia iOS app projects.
Once your contributions are ready for review, post a pull request on GitHub and Travis should verify your changes. Once the build succeeds, one of the maintainers will stop to approve the changes for merging.
We also maintain a mirror of this repository on Gerrit (see above), syncing the code after every release. If you'd rather use Gerrit to send us a patch, you'll need to:
- Create an SSH key
- Create a Wikimedia developer account
- Clone the gerrit repo:
git clone ssh://<wikimedia-dev-username>@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/apps/ios/wikipedia.git - Install git-review
- Make some changes...
- Squash them into one commit (following our commit subject and message guidelines)
- Submit your commit review:
git review- You should see a URL pointing your patch on gerrit.wikimedia.org
- Add two or more of the team members as reviewers for your patch
We're doing what we can to optimize the build system to have as few dependencies as possible (i.e. cloning, building, and running should "Just Work"), but certain development and maintenance tasks will require the installation of specific tools. Many of these tools are installable using Homebrew, which is our recommended package manager.
Homebrew and many other tools require the Xcode command line tools, which can be installed by running
xcode-select --installon newer versions of OS X. They can also be installed via Xcode or downloaded from the Apple Developer downloads page on older versions of OS X.
As mentioned in best practices and coding style, we use uncrustify to lint the project's Objective-C code. Installation via Homebrew is straightforward: brew install uncrustify. We've also provided a pre-push git hook which automatically lints the code before pushing, which can be installed by running ./scripts/setup_git_hooks.sh. In the event that you run uncrustify on the entire project (either via make lint or the provided pre-push hook), please commit the changes as a separate commit. You'll see examples of this in other pull requests which have commits named simply: "uncrustify.".
BBUncrustifyPlugin is an easy way to uncrustify files within the Xcode UI. You can install it from source or using Alcatraz, the unofficial Xcode package/plugin manager.
CocoaPods is a Ruby gem that the project uses to download and integrate third-party iOS components (see Podfile for an up-to-date list). We have committed all of these dependencies to the repository itself, removing the need to install the gem or run before building the project. However, if you want to do anything related to CocoaPods (such as upgrading the version of CocoaPods or adding a dependency), please refer to the Working With Cocoapods documentation.
npm is a package manager for nodejs. With it, we install various node modules as Javascript dependencies and development tools (see www/package.json for an up-to-date list). Similar to our native dependencies, we have committed certain files to the repository to remove node and npm as build dependencies in an effort to streamline typical application development. Please see Wikipedia iOS Web Development for more information about how to work with the web components in this project.
Continuous integration is run on Travis-CI in response to pull request updates and merges to the master branch. See the verify lane in fastlane/Fastfile and our .travis.yml for details.