White label

We’ve made it easy to white label the mobile app and to replace and override the assets used, however, you have to Build Your Own App from source.

If you look at the Project Folder Structure, you’ll see that there is an assets folder containing a base folder with assets provided by Mattermost. These include localization files and images as well as a release folder that optionally contains the icons and the splash screen of the app when building in release mode.

To replace these with your own assets, create a sub-directory called override in the assets folder. The assets that you add using the same directory structure and file names as in the base directory, will be used instead of the original ones.

Localization strings 

To replace these with your own assets, create a sub-directory called override in the assets folder. Using the same directory structure and file names as in the base directory, you can add assets to the override folder to be used instead.

For example, to override assets/base/images/logo.png you would replace your own logo.png file in assets/override/images/logo.png.

Images 

To replace an image, copy the image to assets/override/images/ with the same location and file name as in the base folder.

App splash screen and launch icons 

In the assets directory you will find a folder named assets/base/release which contains an icons folder and a splash_screen folder under each platform directory.

Copy the full release directory under assets/override/release and then replace each image with the same name. Make sure you replace all the icon images for the platform you are building the app - the same applies to the splash screen.

The splash screen’s background color is white by default and the image is centered. If you need to change the color or the layout to improve the experience of your new splash screen make sure that you also override the file launch_screen.xml for Android and LaunchScreen.storyboard for iOS. Both can be found under assets/base/release/splash_screen/<platform>/.

Splash screen and launch icons assets are replaced at build time when the environment variable REPLACE_ASSETS is set to true (default is false).

Configuration 

The config.json file handles custom configuration for the app for settings that cannot be controlled by the Mattermost server. Like with localization strings, create a config.json file under assets/override and just include the keys and values that you wish to change that are present in assets/base/config.json.

For example, if you want the app to automatically provide a server URL and skip the screen to input it, you would add the following to assets/override/config.json:

{
  "DefaultServerUrl": "http://192.168.0.13:8065",
  "AutoSelectServerUrl": true
}