BChat is a decentralized p2p messaging app that runs on Beldex network. Unlike other centralized messaging apps BChat never collect any user data like phone number, location, email, IP address.. etc. The message you sent using BChat will be highly secure and anonymous. No one (even us) can have control of your data that has been shared in BChat. Wtih BChat you own your data.

BChat uses Gradle to build the project and to maintain dependencies. However, you needn't install it yourself; the "gradle wrapper" gradlew, mentioned below, will do that for you.

You will need Java 8 set up on your machine.

Ensure that the following packages are installed from the Android SDK manager:

• Android SDK Build Tools (see buildToolsVersion in build.gradle)
• SDK Platform (all API levels)
• Android Support Repository
• Google Repository

In Android studio, this can be done from the Quickstart panel. Just choose "Configure", then "SDK Manager". In the SDK Tools tab of the SDK Manager, make sure that "Android Support Repository" is installed, and that the latest "Android SDK build-tools" are installed. Click "OK" to return to the Quickstart panel. You may also need to install API version 28 in the SDK platforms tab.

Android Studio is the recommended development environment.

1. Open Android Studio. On a new installation, the Quickstart panel will appear. If you have open projects, close them using "File > Close Project" to see the Quickstart panel.
2. From the Quickstart panel, choose "Checkout from Version Control" then "git".
3. Paste the URL for the bchat-android project when prompted (https://github.com/beldex-coin/bchat-android.git).
4. Android Studio should detect the presence of a project file and ask you whether to open it. Click "yes".
5. Default config options should be good enough.
6. Project initialization and building should proceed.

Code contributions should be sent via Github as pull requests, from feature branches as explained here

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