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    Apktool

    Apktool

    A tool for reverse engineering Android apk files

    A tool for reverse engineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android apps. It can decode resources to nearly original form and rebuild them after making some modifications. It also makes working with an app easier because of the project like file structure and automation of some repetitive tasks like building apk, etc. It is NOT intended for piracy and other non-legal uses. It could be used for localizing, adding some features or support for custom platforms, analyzing applications and much more. The decode option on Apktool can be invoked either from d or decode. In order to run a rebuilt application. You must resign the application. Android documentation can help with this. As you probably know, Android apps utilize code and resources that are found on the Android OS itself. These are known as framework resources and Apktool relies on these to properly decode and build apks.
    Downloads: 136 This Week
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    Bazel

    Bazel

    Fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system

    Build and test software of any size, quickly and reliably. Bazel only rebuilds what is necessary. With advanced local and distributed caching, optimized dependency analysis and parallel execution, you get fast and incremental builds. Build and test Java, C++, Android, iOS, Go and a wide variety of other language platforms. Bazel runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Bazel helps you scale your organization, codebase and Continuous Integration system. It handles codebases of any size, in multiple repositories or a huge monorepo. Easily add support for new languages and platforms with Bazel's familiar extension language. Share and re-use language rules written by the growing Bazel community. Bazel is the common build tool throughout Pinterest and has been instrumental in achieving fast, reproducible builds across our programming languages and platforms.
    Downloads: 134 This Week
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    Gradle

    Gradle

    Adaptable, fast automation for all

    Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites. Gradle has been designed to support build automation across multiple languages and platforms including Java, Scala, Android, Kotlin, C/C++, and Groovy, and is closely integrated with development tools and continuous integration servers including Eclipse, IntelliJ, and Jenkins. From mobile apps to microservices, from small startups to big enterprises, Gradle helps teams build, automate and deliver better software, faster. Write in Java, C++, Python or your language of choice. Package for deployment on any platform. Go monorepo or multi-repo. And rely on Gradle's unparalleled versatility to build it all.
    Downloads: 69 This Week
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    Termux packages

    Termux packages

    A build system and primary set of packages for Termux

    Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app that works directly with no rooting or setup required. A minimal base system is installed automatically - additional packages are available using the APT package manager. Access remote servers using the ssh client from OpenSSH. Termux combines standard packages with accurate terminal emulation in a beautiful open source solution. Take your pick between Bash, fish or Zsh and nano, Emacs or Vim. Grep through your SMS inbox. Access API endpoints with curl and use rsync to store backups of your contact list on a remote server. Install what you want through the APT package management system known from Debian and Ubuntu GNU/Linux. Why not start with installing Git and syncing your dotfiles? Have you ever sat on a bus and wondered exactly which arguments tar accepts? Packages available in Termux are the same as those on Mac and Linux, install man pages on your phone and read them in one session.
    Downloads: 44 This Week
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    capacitor

    capacitor

    Build cross-platform native progressive web apps for iOS and Android

    Capacitor is an open source native runtime for building Web Native apps. Create cross-platform iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Capacitor’s native plugin APIs make it extremely easy to access and invoke common device functionality across multiple platforms. Build web-based applications that run equally well across iOS, Android, and as Progressive Web Apps. Access the full Native SDKs on each platform, and easily deploy to the App Stores (and the web). Add custom native functionality with a simple Plugin API, or use existing Cordova plugins with our compatibility layer. Capture images, save photos, and configure hardware parameters like saturation and color balance. Save and read documents, assets, and other content your users need to access via native file systems. Gather critical information about a user’s device location, such as latitude and longitude.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Xamarin.Forms

    Xamarin.Forms

    Build native apps for iOS, Android, Windows and macOS

    An app platform for building Android and iOS apps with .NET and C#. .NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications. Xamarin extends the .NET developer platform with tools and libraries specifically for building apps for Android, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, macOS, and Windows. Learn about all Xamarin has to offer with our tutorials, videos courses, and documentation. Get started in 5 minutes with pre-packaged libraries and developer productivity tools! Businesses worldwide, spanning all industries, use Xamarin and .NET to build performant native mobile apps. See mobile apps that other developers have created using Xamarin, .NET, and Visual Studio. Xamarin apps are native apps! Whether you're designing a uniform UI across platforms or building a native user interface, your apps will behave the way users expect.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    V Programming Language

    V Programming Language

    Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing software

    Simple language for building maintainable programs. You can learn the entire language by going through the documentation over a weekend, and in most cases, there's only one way to do something. This results in simple, readable, and maintainable code. Despite being simple, V gives a lot of power to the developer and can be used in pretty much every field, including systems programming, webdev, gamedev, GUI, mobile, science, embedded, tooling, etc. V avoids doing unnecessary allocations in the first place by using value types, and string buffers, promoting a simple abstraction-free code style. Most objects (~90-100%) are freed by V's auto-free engine: the compiler inserts necessary free calls automatically during compilation. A remaining small percentage of objects is freed via GC. The developer doesn't need to change anything in their code. "It just works", like in Python, Go, or Java, except there's no heavy GC tracing everything or expensive RC for each object.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    NativeScript

    NativeScript

    Open source framework for building truly native mobile apps

    Create Native iOS and Android Apps with JavaScript. Open source framework for building truly native mobile apps with Angular, Vue.js, TypeScript, or JavaScript. NativeScript features deep integration with modern Angular with full-stack features like integration with the Angular CLI, router support, code generation, webpack and more. Now you can build native mobile applications using Vue.js and use the Vue CLI, Vuex and the other Vue framework features you know and love. Want to code your way? NativeScript provides rich support, modern JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, Flexbox and other web skills. Build your mobile apps free from the performance and user experience constraints of hybrid WebView-based apps. Compatible with Angular, Vue, Svelte, React, etc.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    ReDex

    ReDex

    A bytecode optimizer for Android apps

    ReDex is an Android bytecode (dex) optimizer originally developed at Facebook. It provides a framework for reading, writing, and analyzing .dex files, and a set of optimization passes that use this framework to improve the bytecode. An APK optimized by ReDex should be smaller and faster than its source. Redex provides a framework for reading, writing, and analyzing .dex files, and a set of optimization passes that use this framework to improve the bytecode. An APK optimized by Redex should be smaller and faster. Fewer bytes also means faster download times, faster install times, and lower data usage for cell users. Lastly, less bytecode also typically translates into faster runtime performance. Redex has deep integration with Buck where your Redex config is passed as a parameter to the Buck android_binary rule when generating the APK.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    The All-in-One Commerce Platform for Businesses - Shopify

    Shopify offers plans for anyone that wants to sell products online and build an ecommerce store, small to mid-sized businesses as well as enterprise

    Shopify is a leading all-in-one commerce platform that enables businesses to start, build, and grow their online and physical stores. It offers tools to create customized websites, manage inventory, process payments, and sell across multiple channels including online, in-person, wholesale, and global markets. The platform includes integrated marketing tools, analytics, and customer engagement features to help merchants reach and retain customers. Shopify supports thousands of third-party apps and offers developer-friendly APIs for custom solutions. With world-class checkout technology, Shopify powers over 150 million high-intent shoppers worldwide. Its reliable, scalable infrastructure ensures fast performance and seamless operations at any business size.
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    React Native Navigation

    React Native Navigation

    A complete native navigation solution for React Native

    React Native Navigation is a module, dependent on and intended to be used alongside React Native, so some experience with it and knowledge of core concepts is required. We also assume you are working on a Mac with XCode and Android Studio installed and setup. You can also make it work in a Linux distribution, of course, but in that case bear in mind that some sections of the docs that deal with iOS might not be relevant to you. When your app is launched for the first time, the bundle is parsed and executed. At this point you need to display your UI. To do so, listen to the appLaunched event and call Navigation.setRoot when that event is received. When your app is launched, RN makes sure JS context (which is what enables you to execute JavaScript code) is running. There are quite a few differences between iOS and Android in this regard.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Tauri

    Tauri

    Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications

    Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend. Brownfield compatibility with any front-end framework means you don't have to change your stack. Floss relicensing is possible with Tauri. Bundle size of a Tauri App can be less than 600KB. Security is the Tauri-Team's biggest priority and drives our innovation. Patterns are here to help you choose important features with simple configuration. Cross-platform compilation allows to bundle binaries for major desktop platforms. Cross-platform notifications using polyfilled WEB API. Build your Web application as a Tauri binary for MacOS, Linux and Windows. Update core dependencies automatically from the CLI. Run multiple window instances in Tauri. Setup secure context to enable access to restricted APIs. Generally stable on Desktop, API locked down. Opt-in feature enabling for iframe dialog with Tauri and the native API. Enable programmatic and keyboard access to clipboard.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Onsen UI

    Onsen UI

    Mobile app development framework and SDK

    The most beautiful and efficient way to develop HTML5 hybrid and mobile web apps. Experience streamlined development with zero-time setup, using the technologies you already know and love, Javascript, HTML and CSS. A rich variety of UI components specially designed for mobile apps. Onsen UI provides tabs, side menu, stack navigation and tons of other components such as lists and forms. They all have iOS and Android Material design support, with automatic styling that will change the appearance of the app based on the platform. With Onsen UI you can truly support both Android and iOS with the same source code. Worried that PhoneGap / Cordova apps are slow? Fear not! All animations in Onsen UI have been tuned and optimized to perform well on a wide range of devices. We take great care to ensure that apps made using Onsen UI feel smooth even on lower end devices. Onsen UI is easy to learn while being a powerful tool to create complex mobile apps.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    ELFIO

    A header-only C++ library for accessing files in ELF binary format

    ELFIO is a header-only C++ library intended for reading and generating files in the ELF binary format
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    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Anko

    Anko

    An Android application development library

    Anko is a Kotlin library which makes Android application development faster and easier. It makes your code clean and easy to read, and lets you forget about rough edges of the Android SDK for Java. Anko was born as a type-safe DSL for building Android layouts. It not only allowed creating layouts in a type-safe way, but it made the layouts more adaptable, dynamic, reusable, and also performant, as there was no need for expensive layout inflation. Anko consists of several parts that make up the complete framework, which are: Anko Commons: a lightweight library full of helpers for intents, dialogs, logging and so on. Anko Layouts: a fast and type-safe way to write dynamic Android layouts. Anko SQLite: a query DSL and parser collection for Android SQLite. Anko Coroutines: utilities based on the kotlinx.coroutines library.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Dagger

    Dagger

    Fast dependency injector for Android and Java

    Dagger is a fully static, compile-time dependency injection framework for Java, Kotlin, and Android. It is an adaptation of an earlier version created by Square and now maintained by Google. The latest Dagger release is: Dagger 2.33. Dagger aims to address many of the development and performance issues that have plagued reflection-based solutions. Dagger is a replacement for the FactoryFactory classes that implements the dependency injection design pattern without the burden of writing the boilerplate. It allows you to focus on the interesting classes. Declare dependencies, specify how to satisfy them, and ship your app. Dependency injection frameworks have existed for years with a whole variety of APIs for configuring and injecting. So, why reinvent the wheel? Dagger 2 is the first to implement the full stack with generated code. The guiding principle is to generate code that mimics the code that a user might have hand-written to ensure that dependency injection is simple.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Feathers

    Feathers

    Framework for real-time applications and REST APIs with JavaScript

    Feathers is a lightweight web-framework for creating real-time applications and REST APIs using JavaScript or TypeScript. Feathers can interact with any backend technology, supports over a dozen databases and works with any frontend technology like React, VueJS, Angular, React Native, Android or iOS. Build prototypes in minutes and production-ready apps in days. Using the latest language features, Feathers is a small library that provides the structure to create complex applications but is flexible enough to not be in the way. Feathers is a “batteries included but easily swappable framework” with a large ecosystem of plugins. Include exactly what you need. No more, no less. Feathers has adapters for 12+ databases out of the box. You can have multiple databases in a single app and swap them out painlessly due to a consistent query interface. Feathers can be used the same way on the server with Node.js and in the browser with frameworks like React, Angular, VueJS or on mobile with React.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Shoutem UI

    Shoutem UI

    Customizable set of components for React Native applications

    Shoutem UI is a set of styleable components that enables you to build beautiful React Native applications for iOS and Android. All of our components are built to be both composable and customizable. Each component has a predefined style that is compatible with the rest of the Shoutem UI, which makes it possible to build complex components that look great without the need to manually define complex styles. You can also use standard React Native components in your layouts anywhere you want, but they will not inherit either the theme or the parent styles, so you will need to style them manually. Shoutem UI is a part of the Shoutem UI Toolkit that enables you to build professional-looking React Native apps with ease.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    fastlane

    fastlane

    Fast and easy app automation for iOS and Android developers

    fastlane is an open source tool that automates the building and releasing of iOS and Android apps. With fastlane you can automate just about every aspect of your development and release workflow, from generating screenshots, dealing with provisioning profiles, to releasing your application.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    WebDGap

    WebDGap

    A PhoneGap alternative for Desktop applications.

    WebDGap allows you to convert any website or HTML/CSS/JavaScript web application to a native Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome application. WebDGap also gives you the option to export as a Chrome popup extension, and you can export your app or website as a native PhoneGap application making your app available for mobile devices :)
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    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    Asphyre

    Asphyre

    Asphyre is a cross-platform framework for Delphi and FreePascal.

    Asphyre, also known as Platform eXtended Library, is a cross-platform framework for developing video games and scientific applications in Delphi, and FreePascal/Lazarus. The framework provides facilities for real-time rendering of graphics (using DirectX, OpenGL or Software Renderer), text output, mathematics (including vectors and matrices) and networking communication, among other features. It also supports singleboard devices such as Raspberry PI, Intel Galileo, BeagleBone Black and others with features like GPIO, SPI, I2C and so on, along with external displays, sensors and other peripheral devices.
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    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Gobisoft

    Gobisoft

    Software auto-installation builder

    Gobisoft is a batch package builder for applications, it builds a self-install package of your programs. Creates a stand alone executable file that performs the (secured installation and removing) of the elements necessary to distribute your applications. The software offers many possibilities, such as executing commands before and after installation.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    kodeWeave

    kodeWeave

    HTML/CSS/JS and Markdown Playground For Web Designers and Developers

    kodeWeave is a realtime coding playground for HTML, CSS and Javascript. Similar to JSFiddle and JSBin, but kodeWeave was made to work offline but also as a prototyping application to build applications for desktop operating systems while on mobile devices. (PhoneGap Build is recommended for mobile devices) kodeWeave similar to jsfiddle, jsbin, dabblet, liveweave, codepen, cssdeck, cssdesk, tinkerbin, d3 playground, plunker and pastebin, but allows you to export your web app as a desktop and/or chrome application.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    HTML Onlive Debugger

    HTML Onlive Debugger

    Realtime preview for designers and developers.

    When I got my first Android tablet; I realized how much web design and development were such a tedious process for a large majority of tablet and smart phone users. I found no applications available in Google Play that enabled live code debugging which gave me the incentive to develop one myself. After purchasing Google's developer fee, as well as AIDE I then released on Google Play for all to use.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Linux-Android Mini-distro

    Linux mini-distro for Android devices, not requiring root access

    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Simplest Android Web Suite

    Free and simple build toolkit for HTML5-based Android apps

    SAWS: Simplest Android Web Suite SAWS is an open-source build engine that allows you to turn a HTML5-based client web application into a mobile application for Android OS. Given the folder with your web app (HTML, JS, CSS) and its title, it outputs ready-to-use APK file with this application. Requirements: - Linux or other Unix-based OS with Bash shell - Java SDK (sun-java6-sdk or the latest openjdk version) - Ant - Android SDK installed with Android 2.1 (android-7) available as a target Configuration After unzipping, you must specify the exact path to your Android SDK folder (without last slash) in sdk.ini that resides in SAWS root folder: sdk.dir=/path/to/android-sdk Usage: /path/to/saws-build [application name] [webapp folder] [output apk file] e.g. ~/saws/saws-build "My Cool App" ~/webapp/ ~/nice.apk After this your nice.apk is ready to be installed on your device. SAWS does all the dirty work (assembly, compilation, signing and zipalign) for you.
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