Platform Developer Advanced Topics

This section covers advanced topics useful to Platform Developers. A Platform Developer is a programmer that intends to modify the source code of the ODK-X tools themselves. This person might want to add a new view type or a fix a bug.

• ODK-X Survey Form Processing
  • Survey Calling Contexts (ctxt)
  • Survey JavaScript Modules
  • Survey Control Flow Overview
• Survey formDef.json Structure
  • xlsx Component
  • specification Component
  • sections Sub-Component
  • operations Sub-Sub-Element
• ODK-X Sync Protocol
  • Introduction
  • REST URL formats
  • REST Data Structures
  • Data Groupings
  • Directory Hierarchy and Naming Convention
  • Overall Sync Workflow
• Build Scripts
  • Prerequisites
  • Directory Structure
  • Building the Android Tools
  • Internal Build Files
  • External Build Files