Weex Apache Source Release

Weex produce SDKs to integrate with iOS/Android/Mobile web applications. This file will cover how to build Weex from source. You can either use the script we provided or manually build from source step by step. See README.md for further information about the Weex Framework.

Weex SDK includes 3 different SDKs to use in corresponding system/browser:

See our guide in our website to learn more about how to integrate Weex SDK into your app.

Build Environment

The environment required to build weex is:

  • Android SDK:
    • NodeJS 4.0+
    • JDK 1.6+
    • Android SDK($ANDROID_HOME must be set properly)
    • Gradle 2.0+
    • NDK 16 and ndk 13 (Both of them are needed)
    • CMake 3.9.0+
  • iOS SDK:
    • NodeJS 4.0+
    • XCode & Command Tools 8.0+
  • Mobile web SDK:
    • NodeJS 4.0+

This article was tested in MacOSX system.

Build All by Script

This script will build Android and iOS SDKs:

$ bash scripts/build_from_source.sh $NDK13_dir $NDK_16dir

The $NDK13_dir and $NDK16_dir should be the directory of NDK 13 and NDK 16, otherwise the Android build would failed.

This may take a while. After that, you can look in dist/, android/sdk/build/output/ and ios/sdk/Products for Web/Android/iOS SDK artifacts.

Build for Platforms

You can build all SDKs with one script as described above, or just build for a single platform step by step.

Build Javascript Framework

Javascript Framework is required by native SDKs. So this must be built first. Install npm dependencies(You must have node&npm installed):

$ npm install --production

Install build tools:

$ npm run install:buildtools

Build the javascript libraries:

$ npm run build:source

Before build Native SDK

Move min version to Native SDK folder, which will be used by native SDK build.

cp packages/weex-js-framework/index.min.js ios_sdk/WeexSDK/Resources/main.js cp packages/weex-js-framework/index.min.js android_sdk/assets/main.js

Build Android SDK

check env

  • you have gradle installed, see more details about ‘how to install gradle’ on the gradle website.

  • NDK r16 link

  • edit local.propteries (in Android dir)

    	ndk.dir=/Users/{user}/Library/Android/sdk/ndk-bundle-r16
	sdk.dir=/Users/{user}/Library/Android/sdk

then do buid

cd Android/sdk

../gradlew clean assemble

artifacts path:

android/sdk/build/outputs/aar

You can now import the aar file to your android project.

Build iOS SDK

Execute command below to compile iOS SDK:

$ xcodebuild -project ios_sdk/WeexSDK.xcodeproj -target WeexSDK_MTL

Then you'll find the iOS library(Framework file) under ios_sdk/Products.