ArkLib for Android

This is a wrapper of ArkLib which enables you to build Android apps, powered by resource indexing, previews generation and user metadata support such as tags or scores.

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Importing the library

Github packages with credentials is a workaround since JCenter is shutdown

Add the following script to project's build.gradle:

allprojects {
    repositories{
        maven {
            name = "GitHubPackages"
            url = "https://maven.pkg.github.com/ARK-Builders/arklib-android"
            credentials {
                username = "token"
                password = "\u0037\u0066\u0066\u0036\u0030\u0039\u0033\u0066\u0032\u0037\u0033\u0036\u0033\u0037\u0064\u0036\u0037\u0066\u0038\u0030\u0034\u0039\u0062\u0030\u0039\u0038\u0039\u0038\u0066\u0034\u0066\u0034\u0031\u0064\u0062\u0033\u0064\u0033\u0038\u0065"
            }
        }
    }
}

And add arklib-android dependency to app module's build.gradle:

implementation 'dev.arkbuilders:arklib:0.3.1'

Development of the library

Prerequisites

• Rust toolchain
• Kotlin toolchain
• Android SDK + NDK r24 (latest)

Build Rust library

You need to have Rust targets installed:

rustup target add armv7-linux-androideabi
rustup target add aarch64-linux-android
rustup target add i686-linux-android
rustup target add x86_64-linux-android

Compile Rust (option 1)

For checking if Rust code compiles without problems, you can use this command:

./gradlew cargoBuild

The above command should generates libarklib.so file inside ./arklib/target/<arch>/<buildVariant> folder. If the build is failed, which leads to no generated .so files, there's a build alternative which doesn't require you to install extra dependencies:

https://github.com/bbqsrc/cargo-ndk

Compile Rust (option 2)

Using cargo-ndk, you can generate the libarklib.so files in two steps:

- cd arklib
- cargo ndk -o ./jniLibs build

Running the above two commands outputs same .so files as ./gradlew cargoBuild does.

Build AAR

Before make a release build, ensure you have set profile = "release" in cargo config.

./gradlew lib:assemble

The generated release build is lib/build/outputs/aar/lib-release.aar

Publish New Version

Ensure you have committed your changes.

./gradlew release

Then simply push to the repo.

Debug

Make sure you have switch to debug profile in cargo config, which could be found at lib/build.gradle

Run the command to build

./gradlew lib:assemble

Connect to a device or setup an AVD and check the functionality.

./gradlew appmock:connectedCheck

Unit tests

Unit tests require native ARK library file for host machine in project root directory.

• libarklib.so for Linux
• libarklib.dylib for Mac
• libarklib.dll for Windows

Unit tests depend on buildRustLibForHost gradle task (Linux, Mac)

But you can do it manually:

• Find out host architecture rustc -vV | sed -n 's|host: ||p'
• Change to arklib directory and build the library cargo build --target $host_arch
• Copy library from arklib/target/$host_arch/debug/libarklib.(so|dylib|dll) to project root directory

Shortcut for Linux:

ARCH=$(rustc -vV | sed -n 's|host: ||p') cargo build --target $ARCH && cp arklib/target/$ARCH/debug/libarklib.so .