Introduction

Laverna Android is a companion note-taking application for Laverna (web app) designed for Android. It's built to help to become Laverna a full-blown open source alternative to Evernote.

The application supports Android 8.0 Lollipop (API 26) and above.

Screenshot:

Features include:

• An easy-to-use interface
• Markdown editor based on Pagedown (coming soon)
• Manage your notes, even when you're offline
• Secure client-side encryption (coming soon)
• Synchronizes with cloud storage services (coming soon)
• WYSIWYG control buttons (coming soon)
• Syntax highlighting (coming soon)
• No registration required
• Native Android app
• Gestures

Installation

There are different ways to get the Laverna app for Android: through the google play, from github or building it yourself.

Google play

Comming soon

From GitHub

Download the .apk from https://github.com/vboitsov/laverna-android/releases

Building

With Gradle

This project requires the Android SDK to be installed in your development environment. In addition you'll need to set the ANDROID_HOME environment variable to the location of your SDK. For example:

export ANDROID_HOME=/home/<user>/tools/android-sdk

After satisfying those requirements, the build is pretty simple:

• Run ./gradlew build from the within the project folder. It will build the project for you and install it to the connected Android device or running emulator.

With Android Studio

The easiest way to build is to install Android Studio with Gradle. Once installed, then you can import the project into Android Studio:

1. Open File
2. Import Project
3. Select build.gradle under the project directory
4. Click OK

Then, Gradle will do everything for you.

Support

• Hit star button on github
• Like Laverna on alternativeto.net
• Contribute

License

Laverna Android is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Apache license, version 2.0. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.