Steve and Tommy walked through the app\u2019s code and talked about app development for about an hour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tommy will set up an app development environment on his Windows laptop.\u00a0 This is non-trivial.\u00a0 The app\u2019s source code resides in a cloud-based repository called GitHub<\/a>.\u00a0 One must create an account on GitHub and from there fork<\/a> the app’s “repo”.\u00a0 To clone<\/a> the code from the GitHub forked repository on a Windows laptop one must first install Git For Windows<\/a>.\u00a0 If Windows PowerShell<\/a> (it’s a better command line tool) isn\u2019t installed it will need to be.\u00a0 Next one must install Dart and Flutter<\/a> (the language and framework the app is built in), Android Studio<\/a> (which includes the simulator for Android phones), and VSCode<\/a> (the text editor).\u00a0\u00a0When that is in place, one can run VSCode and edit the project’s source files. Errors encountered along the way can be resolved by pinging Steve, from YouTube videos<\/a>, with Google searchers or AI assistants like ChatGPT or Gemini.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve will make our existing Tokovinine glyphs suitable for the new writing feature. This requires changing the white background pixels to transparent. These glyphs should continue to work with the Decode Glyph Block feature which already uses a white background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tommy will write some Dart code that uses the app\u2019s existing list of glyph objects to convert latin alphabet phonetic sounds to Mayan glyphs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve will give Tommy permission to a second GitHub repo that holds the app’s assets (glyph image files, audio recordings, etc.). <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Steve and Tommy walked through the app\u2019s code and talked about app development for about an hour. Tommy will set up an app development environment on his Windows laptop.\u00a0 This is non-trivial.\u00a0 The app\u2019s source code resides in a cloud-based repository called GitHub.\u00a0 One must create an account on GitHub and from there fork the …<\/p>\n