👨‍💻 Setting up a development environment

January 24, 2026 · View on GitHub

To start developing patches with Morphe Patcher, you must prepare a development environment.

📝 Prerequisites

A Java IDE with Kotlin support, such as Android Studio or IntelliJ IDEA
Knowledge of Java, Kotlin, and basic understanding of Dalvik bytecode
Android reverse engineering skills and tools such as jadx

🏃 Prepare the environment

Throughout the documentation, Morphe Patches will be used as an example project.

Note

To start a fresh project, you can use the Morphe Patches template.

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/MorpheApp/morphe-patches
cd morphe-patches

Build the project
```
./gradlew buildAndroid
```

Note

If the build fails due to authentication, you need to add github authentication authenticate to your command line environment. Create a PAT with the scope read:packages here and add your token to ~/.gradle/gradle.properties

Example gradle.properties file in your user folder (usually found in ~/.gradle/gradle.properties)

gpr.user = github_account_name
gpr.key = gph_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Alternatively, instead of modifying your gradle file, your you can install GitHub CLI and login using:

gh auth

Open the project in your IDE

Tip

It is a good idea to set up a complete development environment for Morphe, so that you can also test your patches by following the Morphe documentation.

⏭️ What's next

The next page will go into details about a Morphe patch.

Continue: 🧩 Anatomy of a patch