Lightweight Android Build tool (LABt)

LABt is a command line interface tool written in Rust for building your android projects on the terminal. It provides dependency management tools to easily add and resolve your project dependencies. It aims to work fully offline and only requiring network during resolution when the dependencies were not cached locally.

At its core, labt provides a plugin system to build applications. The plugins system provides lua scripting for easy to implement and lightweight plugins.

NB: This project is a working progress and currently very unstable

Installation

Install using cargo

cargo install labt

Os support

Currently the base support is on Linux based OS

future cross platform support is planned

Usage

Initialize a new a new android project

labt init

This creates a new project.

Add a dependency to your project

labt add androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0

the add subcommand automatically downloads and caches the provided dependency. You can also fetch the dependencies manually by running.

labt resolve

for more information you could try labt help

Usage: labt [COMMAND]

Commands:
  add      Adds a new project dependency
  init     Initializes a new project
  resolve  Fetches the project dependencies
  build    Builds the project
  help     Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help  Print help

Plugin system

Labt on its own cant really do much. It provides tools to manage projects and their dependencies. To extend the capability of labt, it provides a powerful Lua scripting plugin system. This allows custom plugins to do the heavy lifting of building applications. For more information on plugin system check the LABt Lua API documentation.

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