Ruslin

A simple notes application that supports syncing notes using a self-hosted Joplin server.

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🚧 Currently in Pre-alpha, not ready for use in production environments. Please be careful to back up. 🚧

Supported features:

• ✅ Support Markdown edit and preview
• ✅ Full-text search using jieba-rs (Chinese and English supported)
• ✅ Sync notes using a self-hosted Joplin server
• ✅ Manual and automatic synchronization
• 🚧 Possible compatibility with Joplin's sync format (End-to-end encryption is not supported)

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Ruslin is a reproducible build of app, you don't need to worry about F-Droid and other store signature issues, see: Towards a reproducible F-Droid.

Build

The following instructions are based on a Linux development environment and an arm64 physical device for debugging.

Requirements

• Rust 1.75.0
• Android Studio
• NDK 27.1.12297006

Build Instructions

1. You need to set the NDK environment variable.

Example:

export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Android/Sdk
export NDK_VERSION=27.1.12297006

2. Build the Rust library.

You can learn about how Kotlin interoperates with Rust from uniffi-rs.

Run build.sh in the ruslin-data-uniffi directory.

cd ruslin-data-uniffi
./build.sh

3. Build the apk.

./gradlew :app:assembleDebug

For more build details, refer to Github Actions.

Credits

• Joplin: AGPL-3.0
• ReadYou: GPL-3.0
• Seal: GPL-3.0

License

GNU GPL v3.0