Ackpine - Android Coroutines-friendly Kotlin-first Package Installer extensions

See the project website for documentation and API reference.

A library providing consistent APIs for installing and uninstalling apps on an Android device.

Key features of Ackpine:

• Ease of use: Ackpine reduces complexity of dealing with system PackageInstaller APIs.
• Unifying of different system APIs: Ackpine provides an ability to choose system package installer API which will be used to install a package.
• Built-in split APKs support: Ackpine provides simple lazy sequences-based APIs for reading, parsing and filtering split APKs.
• Persistent: Ackpine persists every session so it can properly handle process death.
• Deferred: Ackpine allows to defer user's intervention via customizable high-priority notification.
• Progress and state updates: it's easy to observe every session's state and progress updates.
• 100% Java and Kotlin-friendly: while maintaining full Java compatibility, Ackpine was developed as a Kotlin-first library.
• Compatibility: Ackpine supports Android versions starting from API level 16.

Download

Ackpine is available on mavenCentral().

Ackpine depends on Jetpack libraries, so it's necessary to declare the google() Maven repository.

dependencies {
    val ackpineVersion = "0.8.3"
    implementation("ru.solrudev.ackpine:ackpine-core:$ackpineVersion")

    // optional - Kotlin extensions and Coroutines support
    implementation("ru.solrudev.ackpine:ackpine-ktx:$ackpineVersion")

    // optional - utilities for working with split APKs
    implementation("ru.solrudev.ackpine:ackpine-splits:$ackpineVersion")

    // optional - support for asset files inside of application's package
    implementation("ru.solrudev.ackpine:ackpine-assets:$ackpineVersion")
}

License

Copyright (C) 2023-2024 Ilya Fomichev

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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