Friendly Words is a game supporting behavioral therapy for children with autism. It provides digital version of choose correct word game. It allows children to learn new words by associating pronunciation with the picture.
More about autism and challenges: https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism/symptoms
We are using GitHub Flow. Please create pull requests to master branch when contributing.
- follow the React Native installation tutorial. Pick the variant "Building projects with native code". Install all the dependencies mentioned in the tutorial (react-native-cli, Android SDK, etc.)
- Install yarn
- clone project from Friendly Words Github
- Install dependencies by running command
yarn installfrom the project root directory - Run an Android emulator or connect an Android device using a USB cable. Make sure to turn on debugging mode on the device.
- Run command
react-native run-androidfrom the project's root. It should automatically build the application, install .apk on a connected device or emulator and run a react-native packager in new terminal window. - app should be up and running. Be aware that application is using TextToSpeech service to automatically read instructions, so watch out for your volume settings
- if the application doesn't run even though it has been successfully built, try the following:
- close the packager and the application
- run
react-native start- it should start the packager alone, without any building - find the application in installed apps on the device and run it
If you are unfamiliar with React Native, take a look at the following articles:
- getting started tutorial https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html
- react native tutorial https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/tutorial.html
- excercises, examples and interactive docs http://www.reactnativeexpress.com/todo_list