Fax example app - minimal blog version

This app demonstrates the fax sending capabilities of the sipgateio library.

A tutorial using this code can be found in this article.

Introduction

You might think sending faxes is a bit outdated, and you might be right. But there still might be reasons for you or your organization to use it. In our [fax app tutorial](link to blog post), we show you how to build a state-of-the-art fax sending app which runs on both Android and iOS.

Getting started

First make sure, you follow the react-native environment setup guide for your respective environment.

After cloning the repository, fire up your shell and install the dependencies using npm.

git clone https://github.com/sipgate-io/fax-sample-app-minimal
cd fax-sample-app-minimal/
npm install

You should now be able to start the bundle server and build the package for either Android or iOS, depending on your target.

npm start

# Execute app on android targets (emulator or device)
npm run android

# Execute app on iOS targets
npm run ios

Now you can change the code according to your requirements.

Building a release version

The last step is to prepare a standalone release package to install on an actual device.

Android

Building an .apk for Android devices requires you change your working directory to android/ and build the app using gradle.

cd android/
./gradlew assembleRelease

The final app-release.apk will end up in app/build/outputs/apk/release.

You can now copy the .apk to your device and install it by enabling unknown sources.