hangr

Hangouts, the way it was meant to be

What?

Hangr is an unofficial, "native" app (using Electron) for Google Hangouts that brings back the old Chrome extension UI with windows floating on the desktop, pinned to the bottom.

Hangr is currently in a very early stage of development, but does support most basic features so far. If there's something missing and there's not already an issue for it, open one! Or, better yet, make a Pull Request!

Contributing

Want to help out? Here's some things you might need to know:

Requirements

• JDK 1.7+
• Leiningen 2.5.3
• node.js 6.5.0 [Or whatever version is compatible with Electron]

On Mac/Linux, installing node.js using Node Version Manager is recommended.

This project uses Electron. Please check Electron's GitHub page for the latest version. The version is specified in Gruntfile.js under the Grunt Config section.

Setup

On Mac/Linux:

scripts/setup.sh

On Windows:

scripts\setup.bat

This will install the node dependencies for the project, along with grunt and bower and will also run grunt setup.

Development mode

Start the figwheel server and repl:

lein figwheel

In another terminal window, launch the electron app:

grunt launch

You can edit the files under src/cljs/hangr/ and the changes should show up in the electron app without the need to re-launch. You can also connect to the repl using Cider via vim-fireplace or whatever else you prefer.

Dependencies

Node dependencies are in package.json file. Clojure/ClojureScript dependencies are in project.clj.

Icons

Please replace the icons provided with your application's icons. The development icons are from node-appdmg project.

Files to replace:

• app/img/logo.icns
• app/img/logo.ico
• app/img/logo_96x96.png
• scripts/dmg/TestBkg.png
• scripts/dmg/[email protected]

Creating a build for release

To create a Windows build from a non-Windows platform, please install wine. On OS X, an easy option is using homebrew.

On Windows before doing a production build, please edit the scripts/build-windows-exe.nsi file. The file is the script for creating the NSIS-based setup file.

On Mac OSX, please edit the variables for the plist in release-mac task in Gruntfile.js.

Using electron-packager, we are able to create a directory which has OS executables (.app, .exe etc) running from any platform.

If NSIS is available on the path, a further setup executable will be created for Windows. Further, if the release command is run from a OS X machine, a DMG file will be created.

To create the release directories:

grunt release

This will create the directories in the builds folder.

Note: you will need to be on OSX to create a DMG file and on Windows to create the setup .exe file.

Grunt commands

To run a command, type grunt <command> in the terminal.

Leiningen commands

To run a command, type lein <command> in the terminal.