1# How to become a contributor and submit your own code 2 3## Contributor License Agreements 4 5We'd love to accept your sample apps and patches! Before we can take them, we 6have to jump a couple of legal hurdles. 7 8Please fill out either the individual or corporate Contributor License Agreement (CLA). 9 10 * If you are an individual writing original source code and you're sure you 11 own the intellectual property, then you'll need to sign an [individual CLA] 12 (https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/individual). 13 * If you work for a company that wants to allow you to contribute your work, 14 then you'll need to sign a [corporate CLA] 15 (https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/corporate). 16 17Follow either of the two links above to access the appropriate CLA and 18instructions for how to sign and return it. Once we receive it, we'll be able to 19accept your pull requests. 20 21## Contributing A Patch 22 231. Submit an issue describing your proposed change to the repo in question. 241. The repo owner will respond to your issue promptly. 251. If your proposed change is accepted, and you haven't already done so, sign a 26 Contributor License Agreement (see details above). 271. Fork the desired repo, develop and test your code changes. 281. Ensure that your code adheres to the existing style in the sample to which 29 you are contributing. Refer to the 30 [Android Code Style Guide] 31 (https://source.android.com/source/code-style.html) for the 32 recommended coding standards for this organization. 331. Ensure that your code has an appropriate set of unit tests which all pass. 341. Submit a pull request. 35 36