Apollo-desktop

Apollo desktop wallet applications

At the moment we have Java-FX based desktop application. It uses the same code that Web browser based Apollo wallet from Apollo-web-ui sub-project with some additional functionality that is impossible in browser.

To run desktop wallet, apollo-blockchain and _apollo-web-ui packages should be installed. Please refer to following sub-projects: Apollo Apollo-blockchain node Apollo-web-ui Apollo UI

How to build

Requirements

Any JDK 11 distribution, the mainstream openjdk 11.0.9 or later is prefferred.

Build commands

Clone repository, then run following commands

	cd apl-desktop
	./mvnw clean install

Maven wrapper downloads Apache Maven and then builds package. Final package is zip file in "target" directory, e.g. apollo-desktop-"1.51.3"-NoOS-NoArch.zip that contains all required components and libraries.

How to run

Requirements

Any JRE 11 distribution, the mainstream openjdk 11.0.9 or later is prefferred.

Run desktop wallet

At the moment Apollo-desktop requires Apollo-blockchain package running on the local computer and Apollo-web-ui package is installed. We plan to change this in the nearest future and allow Apollo-desktop to work with trusted remote Apollo nodes.

When Apollo blockchain node is up and running, you can start Apollo-desktop wallet by scripts in ApolloWallet/apollo-dekstop/bin directory.

Debugging JavaScript

Apollo desktop application supports Google Chrome Devtools

Launch steps:

• Build the repository
• Run the Apollo Blockchain Node with Apollo Web UI installed
• Use bin/apl-run-desktop.bat for Windows and bin/apl-run-desktop.sh scripts for Linux and Mac OS with adding -d parameter to launch Apollo Desktop App
• Observe message in logs: Chrome Debugger URL is devtools://devtools/bundled/inspector.html?ws=localhost:32322/
• Open the Chrome Browser and go to URL given in the message above
• Perform any action on Apollo Desktop App and see all the stats at Chrome devtools

GIT branches

We follow GIT FLOW procedure in our developemnt and use following branhces:

master branch contains stable code of the latest release. It is also tagged for each public release. Please see "Tags" in the "barcnh" dropdown menu. Plea se use this branch to compile Apollo components.

develop branch contains latest development version. Use this branch if you are developer/contributor.

stage branch contains release preparation work of the last release. Do not use this branch if you are not release engineer

fix/, feature/, bugfix/** - temporary branches used by developers. Ususaly those branmches get merged to develop and deleted after work is done