Want to Contribute

[greatjack]

Hello everyone,

I have always been a long time user of rockbox and in the past 5 years have gotten very involved in the programming world and have learned java, .net and most recentely c. I have followed the development guide that has been posted and I have a clone of the rockbox repository sitting on my computer ready to tweak, however I am totally confused with the structure of the git repository and how it knows which files to compile for each device.

Would anyone be able to point me to a guide that discusses the structure of the repository and how to make changes to all targets, or just to one.

Im a relative noob, so the clearer the better.

Thanks in advance

[saratoga]

There are some links here, mostly for things like plugins, codecs or new devices:

https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/ContributingToRockbox

Most files will change all builds, or at least a lot of them, unless they're somehow specific to a single device.  The makefiles decide what files to compile by parsing the SOURCES and SUBDIRS folders in the repo. 

[__builtin]

About the repository layout, most high-level stuff such as plugins and UI code goes in apps/, while firmware/ holds most of the target-specific code and drivers.

[saratoga]

What do you want to work on?

[greatjack]

Thanks all for responding.

As for your question saratoga.

I dont think I would be good at embedded work such as reverse engineering drivers etc, however I have pretty solid code cleanup and organization skills.

I also have a interest in writing high level plugins using the plugin api which I allready started working on

[greatjack]

Another thing that I would like to work on is since I have andorid experiance, although not so much jni/ndk, would be to improve the android port as well get it to work on art. I have allready started working on it, and will report progress soon (if there is)