Desktop app

Getting Started

You can get your machine up and running for the desktop app in absolutely no time. Let's first begin by checking if your machine has Java installed previously.

On Windows, click on the "Start" menu and search "cmd". Then select "Command Prompt".

On Mac, open the "Terminal" app by either finding it in "Launchpad" or by searching for it in "Spotlight Search".

Once opened, copy and paste the highlighted command below, then press Enter or Return on your keyboard. java -version

Upon executing the command, if you get a response such as java version 1.x.x... that means Java is already installed on your machine. If you get an error such as command not found, then that means Java is not installed and so you will proceed to install it in the following section.

Setting up Java

Note: If you discovered that your machine already has Java installed during the previous section, you can skip onto the next section.

Go to the Java download page by clicking this link and click on the download button. Once downloaded, simply double-click on it to run the file and follow through with the default options until it installs it on your machine.

Now you can verify if everything installed correctly by opening Command Prompt (on Windows) or Terminal (on Mac) and run the java -version command again which should now respond with the version of Java on your machine. For example: "1.8.0_171" is currently installed on the machine used to write this documentation.