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-# Cake Wallet
+# CakeWallet for Android and iOS
 
-The project description, motivation, build scripts, instructions, tests will be added soon (February 2021);
+## Open Source Monero and Bitcoin Wallet
 
-Copyright (c) 2021 Cake Technologies LLC.
+
+More instructions to follow
+
+For instructions on how to build for Android: please view file `howto-build-android.md`
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+# Building CakeWallet for Android
+
+## Requirements and Setup
+
+The following are the system requirements to build CakeWallet for your Android device.
+
+```
+Ubuntu >= 16.04 
+Android SDK 28
+Android NDK 17c
+Flutter 1.22.6
+```
+
+## Building CakeWallet on Android
+
+These steps will help you configure and execute a build of CakeWallet from its source code.
+
+### 1. Installing Package Dependencies
+
+CakeWallet cannot be built without the following packages installed on your build system.
+
+- unzip
+
+- automake
+
+- build-essential
+
+- file
+
+- pkg-config
+
+- git
+
+- python
+
+- libtool
+
+- libtinfo5
+
+- cmake
+
+- openjdk-8-jre-headless
+
+You may easily install them on your build sytem with the following command:
+
+`$ sudo apt-get install -y unzip automake build-essential file pkg-config git python libtool libtinfo5 cmake openjdk-8-jre-headless`
+
+### 2. Installing Android Studio and Android toolchain
+
+You may download and install the latest version of Android Studio [here](https://developer.android.com/studio#downloads). After installing, start Android Studio, and go through the "Setup Wizard." This installs the latest Android SDK, Android SDK Command-line Tools, and Android SDK Build-Tools, which are required by CakeWallet. **Be sure you are installing SDK version 28 or later when stepping through the wizard**
+
+### 3. Installing Flutter
+
+CakeWallet requires **EXACTLY** Flutter version `1.22.6` to build properly.
+
+To install this version of Flutter on your Ubuntu system, please use [these instructions](https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/linux#install-flutter-manually).
+
+### 4. Verify Installations
+
+Verify that the Android toolchain, Flutter, and Android Studio have been correctly installed on your system with the following command:
+
+`$ flutter doctor`
+
+The output of this command will appear like this, indicating successful installations. If there are problems with your installation, they **must** be corrected before proceeding.
+```
+Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
+[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 1.22.6, on Linux, locale en_US.UTF-8)
+[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 28)
+[✓] Android Studio (version 4.0)
+```
+
+### 5. Generate a secure keystore for Android
+
+`$ keytool -genkey -v -keystore $HOME/key.jks -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000 -alias key`
+
+You will be prompted to create two passwords. First you will be prompted for the "store password", followed by a "key password" towards the end of the creation process. **TAKE NOTE OF THESE PASSWORDS!** You will need them in later steps. 
+
+### 6. Acquiring the CakeWallet Source Code
+
+Create the directory that will be use to store the CakeWallet source...
+
+```
+$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/android
+$ sudo chown $USER /opt/android
+$ cd /opt/android
+```
+
+..and download the source code into that directory.
+
+`$ git clone https://github.com/cake-tech/cake_wallet.git --branch deploy`
+
+Proceed into the source code before proceeding with the next steps:
+
+`$ cd cake_wallet/scripts/android/`
+
+### 7. Installing Android NDK
+
+`$ ./install_ndk.sh`
+
+### 8. Execute Build & Setup Commands for CakeWallet
+
+Build the Monero libraries and their dependencies:
+
+`$ ./build_all.sh`
+
+Now the dependencies need to be copied into the CakeWallet project with this command:
+
+`$ ./copy_monero_deps.sh`
+
+It is now time to change back to the base directory of the CakeWallet source code:
+
+`$ cd ../../`
+
+Install Flutter package dependencies with this command:
+
+`$ flutter pub get`
+
+Your CakeWallet binary will be built with cryptographic salts, which are used for secure encryption of your data. You may generate these secret salts with the following command:
+
+`$ flutter packages pub run tool/generate_new_secrets.dart`
+
+Next, we must generate key properties based on the secure keystore you generated for Android (in step 5). **MODIFY THE FOLLOWING COMMAND** with the "store password" and "key password" you assigned when creating your keystore (in step 5).
+
+`$ flutter packages pub run tool/generate_android_key_properties.dart keyAlias=key storeFile=$HOME/key.jks storePassword=<store password> keyPassword=<key password>`
+
+**REMINDER:** The *above* command will **not** succeed unless you replaced the `storePassword` and `keyPassword` variables with the correct passwords for your keystore.
+
+Lastly, we will generate mobx models for the project.
+
+`$ flutter packages pub run build_runner build --delete-conflicting-outputs`
+
+### 9. Build!
+
+`$ flutter build apk —release`
+
+Copyright (c) 2021 Cake Technologies LLC.
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