From b23898ee09f1fa76b67fed91d3dc0f9cf5de7352 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Hanchrow Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:33:17 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Some clarifications for BUILDING.md Closes #4501 // FREEBIE --- BUILDING.md | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md index 89eed9ac0..4aded97c9 100644 --- a/BUILDING.md +++ b/BUILDING.md @@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ Basics ------ Signal uses [Gradle](http://gradle.org) to build the project and to maintain -dependencies. +dependencies. However, you needn't install it yourself; the +"gradle wrapper" `gradlew`, mentioned below, will do that for you. Building Signal --------------- @@ -19,12 +20,12 @@ The following steps should help you (re)build Signal from the command line. 2. Make sure you have the [Android SDK](https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html) installed. 3. Ensure that the following packages are installed from the Android SDK manager: * Android SDK Build Tools - * SDK Platform + * SDK Platform (API level 22) * Android Support Repository * Google Repository -4. Create a local.properties file at the root of your source checkout and add an sdk.dir entry to it. +4. Create a local.properties file at the root of your source checkout and add an sdk.dir entry to it. For example: - sdk.dir=\ + sdk.dir=/Application/android-sdk-macosx 5. Execute Gradle: