Click the "Use the Template" button on the repo page ⬆
We are assuming you're using a Mac for this guide. Install tools necessary.
Clone down your new repo, and run the setup script to set up environments
yarn
yarn setup
A working Rock RMS instance is required for our API to run. If you want to test that your API is functional fill out the ROCK_API and ROCK_TOKEN in your .env file. ROCK_API is the URL of your Rock instance with /api appended to the end. ROCK_TOKEN is the REST key of an admin user. You can get this info on your Rock instance from "Admin Tools" > "Apollos Dashboard" after you've installed the Apollos Plugin.
Now simply start the server
yarn start
We use Heroku by default because it's free and easy to get started. If you'd like to use another platform to host your API, you can skip this section.
brew install heroku/brew/heroku
heroku login
Create your app on Heroku
heroku create APP_NAME [-t OPTIONAL_TEAM]
Add your config variables to the remote application
heroku config:set ROCK_URL=<url> ROCK_TOKEN=<token>
We deploy through the Github workflow. You need to set three new Github secrets in your new repository. First Install the Github CLI
brew install gh
gh auth login
Now set the secrets you need to deploy
gh secret set HEROKU_API_KEY -b <Your user API key>
gh secret set HEROKU_EMAIL -b <Your email address>
gh secret set HEROKU_APP_NAME -b <App name from creation step above>
gh secret set APP_DATA_URL -b <Full Heroku app URL>
Simply commit to master and push or re-run the action if you haven't made any changes yet. Once the API Deploy action is finished, you should be able to open up the app in the browser
heroku open
To get started with different API integrations, check out our docs!
This will outline the steps required to get your Android and iOS apps up and running. You will need a functioning production API from the previous section before moving forward.
Rename your project, no spaces!
cd apolloschurchapp
npx react-native-rename "<ChurchName>"
Add new icons and splash screen. For customization, see react-native-make. Icons should be 1024 jpgs and splash should be 3000h transparent png.
yarn icons icon-ios.png --platform ios
yarn icons icon-android.jpg --platform android
yarn splash splash.png
Install dependencies and start the server and bundler
cd ..
yarn
yarn start
Couple final steps you'll need to get the app booted in development mode.
Enable automatic code signing (we'll switch back to manual later when ready to deploy) and pick a new ID.
Add the new schemes to the workspace. You should see them by going to Xcode > Product > Scheme > Manage Schemes.
Now run the command to start the simulator in a separate tab:
yarn ios
Android uses Google Maps for its map service so you will need to register a Google Maps API Key. Once you have that, define it in your .env file:
GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY=<KEY>
Then start the app on the default installed emulator in a separate tab.
yarn android
We use Fastlane through Github Actions to manage certificates and build uploads. This will walk you through everything you need to get set up with automated deployments.
First thing we'll do is configure the certificates. Add the following values to your .env file:
MATCH_PASSWORD=<some unique password>
MATCH_GIT_URL=<private repo to store certs and profiles>
MATCH_APP_IDENTIFIER=<bundle ID of app>
FASTLANE_ITC_TEAM_NAME=<developer team name>
FASTLANE_TEAM_ID=<developer team ID>
For the CI, You'll need to create a personal access token in Github and use that to authenticate to your certificates repo. Once you have the token, you'll need to encode it to base64.
echo -n "<github username>:<token>" | base64
Add the encoded token to your .env file
MATCH_BASIC_GIT_AUTHORIZATION=<base64 encoded token>
Inside the app directory run match to configure the certificates
fastlane match development
fastlane match appstore
Use Xcode to switch the certificate and profile settings to "Manual" and choose the new certificates and profiles that you just created.
Now we will create an API key to manage authentication to Apple and upload builds from the CI. Create the key on the Apple Developer Portal, download the file, and move it to ios/apollos.p8. You will also need the key ID and issuer ID, both can be found in the portal. Add the following variables to your .env file:
APP_STORE_CONNECT_API_KEY_KEY_ID=<key ID>
APP_STORE_CONNECT_API_KEY_ISSUER_ID=<issuer ID>
Test the deployment:
fastlane ios deploy
The last thing you'll want to do to make sure you don't lose your important keys and credentials is encrypt them and add them to the repo. Copy the .env file to a new file, .env.shared. Then run the following encryption command from within the APP directory, /apolloschurchapp. You can also use this same process in the API directory, /apollos-church-api. The <TOKEN> is an encryption password that you will use for automatic Android deploys.
npx @apollosproject/apollos-cli secrets -e <TOKEN>
Make sure to remember that password and add it to Github as a secret.
ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD=<password>
Now push the changes and watch the app deploy!
First, you'll need to have the Developer account owner generate an upload key. Create a service account and add it to the Play Console with "Release Manager" role. Move the downloaded JSON file to android/key.json once you have it. You can validate the upload key with this command
fastlane run validate_play_store_json_key json_key:./android/key.json
Next, you'll need to generate a new keystore. Keep the passwords it asks you for.
keytool -genkey -v -keystore apollos.keystore -alias apollos -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000
Drop the keystore file here: apolloschurchapp/android/app/apollos.keystore
NOTE: You may also want to save this keystore and credentials somewhere safe outside this repo, it's the only keystore you can ever use for this app and if you lose it, it's very difficult to get a new one.
Now just load these environment variables in your .env and .env.shared files
KEYSTORE_FILE=apollos.keystore
KEYSTORE_PASSWORD=<keystore password>
KEY_ALIAS=apollos
KEY_PASSWORD=<alias password>
You will need to upload the bundle manually the first time. First set the Application ID to something unique in the android/app/build.gradle file:
defaultConfig {
applicationId "com.company.appname"
...
...
...
}
Run the fastlane command to generate a release build:
fastlane run gradle task:bundle build_type:Release project_dir:android
You can find the bundle in android/app/build/outputs/bundle/release/app-release.aab. Upload the bundle to the closed testing track the first time. The app must have been "released" before we push anything to internal. Fastlane will take care of uploading to internal, so you only need to upload to closed testing.
Go through the steps to finish your first release.
Lastly, to get automated deploys working on the CI, move the keystore variables to .env.shared and re-run the encryption command from a previous step, using the same token from the iOS steps above:
npx @apollosproject/apollos-cli secrets -e <TOKEN>
Change the metadata information for the Android release:
fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/full_description.txtfastlane/metadata/android/en-US/short_description.txtfastlane/metadata/android/en-US/title.txt
Add new images and screenshots
fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/phoneScreenshots/(three images)fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/icon.png(512 x 512 jpg)fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/images/featureGraphic.png(1024 x 500 jpg)
Now when you push to master, you should be all set for automatic deploys!