Add Pre-commit Hooks and Documentation to Development Environment

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -120,6 +120,41 @@ git remote add upstream https://github.com/scribe-org/Scribe-Android.git
 > [!NOTE]
 > Feel free to contact the team in the [Android room on Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#ScribeAndroid:matrix.org) if you're having problems getting your environment setup!
 
+## Pre-commit Hooks [`⇧`](#contents)
+
+Scribe-Android uses pre-commit hooks to maintain a clean and consistent codebase. These hooks help automatically check for issues such as formatting, trailing whitespace, and linting errors. Here's how to set up pre-commit for Scribe-Android:
+
+1. Install `pre-commit` by running:
+
+    ```bash
+    pip install pre-commit
+    ```
+
+2. After cloning the repository, install the hooks by running the following command in the project root:
+
+    ```bash
+    pre-commit install
+    pre-commit run --all-files  # to check
+    ```
+
+3. When you make a commit, the hooks will automatically run to check for any code quality issues. If any issues are found, they will either be fixed automatically or will need to be resolved manually.
+
+## Testing [`⇧`](#contents)
+
+Scribe-Android includes a testing suite that should be ran before all pull requests and subsequent commits. Please run the following in the project root:
+
+```bash
+# Run ktlint and detekt:
+./gradlew lintKotlin detekt
+./gradlew test
+```
+
+If you see that there are linting errors above, then please run the following command to hopefully fix them automatically:
+
+```bash
+ktlint --format
+```
+
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 ## Testing [`⇧`](#contents)

pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+repos:
+    - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+      rev: v4.5.0
+      hooks:
+          - id: trailing-whitespace
+          - id: end-of-file-fixer
+          - id: check-yaml
+
+    - repo: local
+      hooks:
+          - id: ktlint
+            name: ktlint
+            entry: ./gradlew lintKotlin
+            language: system
+            types: [kotlin]
+
+          - id: detekt
+            name: detekt
+            entry: ./gradlew detekt
+            language: system
+            types: [kotlin]