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View 6 business solutionsBrowse free open source Build Tools and projects for Android below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Build Tools by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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PeerGFS PEER Software - File Sharing and CollaborationPeerGFS is a software-only solution developed to solve file management/file replication challenges in multi-site, multi-platform, and hybrid multi-cloud environments.
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Project Planning and Management Software | PlanviewPlanview® Portfolios enables enterprises to accelerate strategic execution by seamlessly integrating business and technology planning, optimizing resources, and leveraging the power of embedded AI — Planview Anvi™ — to deliver breakthrough products, services, and customer experiences. This unified approach aligns strategy with execution, driving enhanced business performance across the organization.
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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. -
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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. -
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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. -
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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. -
Run applications fast and securely in a fully managed environmentRun frontend and backend services, batch jobs, deploy websites and applications, and queue processing workloads without the need to manage infrastructure.
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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. -
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Tauri
Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications
Tauri is an open-source framework for building lightweight and high-performance desktop and mobile applications using web technologies. It allows developers to create user interfaces with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while using Rust for the backend logic. By leveraging the operating system’s native WebView instead of bundling a full browser, Tauri produces significantly smaller and more efficient application binaries. The framework supports multiple front-end frameworks such as React, Vue, Svelte, and others that compile to web technologies. Tauri provides a secure bridge between the frontend and the Rust backend, enabling native functionality while maintaining strong security practices. With cross-platform support, developers can build applications that run on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. -
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Nativescript Material Components
Monorepo that contains all of the NativeScript Material Design plugins
ui-material-components is a collection of Material Design UI components for NativeScript applications. It provides developers with ready-to-use widgets that adhere to Material Design guidelines, ensuring a consistent and modern look across apps. -
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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. -
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Ionic Framework
A powerful cross-platform UI toolkit for building native-quality apps
A powerful cross-platform UI toolkit for building native-quality iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With a low friction migration, Ionic 6 brings improved desktop support, new UI components, iOS/Android design enhancements, performance and bundling improvements, and so much more. Free and open-source, Ionic offers a library of mobile-optimized UI components, gestures, and tools for building fast highly interactive apps. Ionic’s UI components look great on all mobile devices and platforms. Start with pre-made components, typography, and a base theme that adapts to each platform. Ionic lets developers to ship apps to the app stores and as a PWA with a single code base. With Adaptive Styling, apps look and feel at home on every platform. Create, build, test, and deploy your app with the Ionic CLI. Take advantage of Live Reload, deployments, integrations, and even use your favorite JS framework’s CLI. -
Create and run cloud-based virtual machines.Computing infrastructure in predefined or custom machine sizes to accelerate your cloud transformation. General purpose (E2, N1, N2, N2D) machines provide a good balance of price and performance. Compute optimized (C2) machines offer high-end vCPU performance for compute-intensive workloads. Memory optimized (M2) machines offer the highest memory and are great for in-memory databases. Accelerator optimized (A2) machines are based on the A100 GPU, for very demanding applications.
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NativeBase
Mobile-first, accessible components for React Native & Web
NativeBase is a mobile-first, accessible component library for building a consistent design system across android, iOS & web. NativeBase is a mobile-first, component library for React & React Native. Version 3.0 ships with complete ARIA integration, support for utility props and nearly 40 components that are consistent across Android, iOS and Web. Fast-track your dev process with NativeBase 3.0. Building with React Native from scratch is a tedious process with multiple steps such as adding styling, interactions, state management, responsiveness, accessibility, etc. We wanted to build and ship accessible, high-quality apps quickly. NativeBase was added to the list of Frameworks of Awesome React Native and it is used by numerous React lovers across the world. Our inspirations include Material UI, Chakra UI, Ant Design, Braid Design System, Bootstrap, TailwindCSS & Flutter. -
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Victory
React components for building interactive data visualizations
Victory is a set of modular charting components for React and React Native. Victory makes it easy to get started without sacrificing flexibility. Create one of a kind data visualizations with fully customizable styles and behaviors. Victory uses the same API for web and React Native applications for easy cross-platform charting. Victory is used for charting across the web, from publicly-consumed informational graphs to internal tracking and reporting. Victory is an opinionated, but fully overridable, ecosystem of composable React components. Check out the docs to see how you can get started building interactive data visualizations. Fully contained, reusable data visualization elements are responsible for their own styles and behaviors. Extend the Victory experience on Android and iOS platforms with an identical API. -
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fat-aar-android
A gradle plugin that merge dependencies into the final aar file
fat-aar-android is a Gradle plugin that allows Android developers to package their AAR (Android Archive) libraries with all of their dependencies included. Normally, AARs do not bundle transitive dependencies, leading to missing classes or resource issues when consumed. This plugin solves that by merging the compile-time dependencies into a single "fat" AAR, streamlining distribution and reuse of libraries in projects where managing dependencies separately isn't ideal. -
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Bootstrap 3 for Sass
Sass port of Bootstrap 2 and 3
Bootstrap 3 for Sass is a Sass-powered version of Bootstrap 3, ready to drop right into your Sass powered applications. This is Bootstrap 3. For Bootstrap 4 use the Bootstrap rubygem if you use Ruby, and the main repo otherwise. Get the lowdown on the key pieces of Bootstrap's infrastructure, including our approach to better, faster, stronger web development. Bootstrap makes use of certain HTML elements and CSS properties that require the use of the HTML5 doctype. Include it at the beginning of all your projects. With Bootstrap 2, we added optional mobile friendly styles for key aspects of the framework. With Bootstrap 3, we've rewritten the project to be mobile friendly from the start. Instead of adding on optional mobile styles, they're baked right into the core. In fact, Bootstrap is mobile first. Mobile first styles can be found throughout the entire library instead of in separate files. -
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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. -
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Freeline
A fast build tool for Android, an alternative to Instant Run
Freeline is a super fast build tool for Android and an alternative to Instant Run. Caching reusable class files and resource indices, it enables incremental building Android apps, and optionally deploying the updates to your device by hot swap. Developed and used by Ant Fortune (about us) Android Team, Freeline has been significantly saving time in daily work. Inspiring by Buck and Instant Run but faster than ever, Freeline can make an incremental build in just a few seconds. No more recompile and reinstall again and again before seeing your modifications, Freeline brings life-changing development experience for Android. Freeline splits the build task into several small tasks that run concurrently. It makes full use of the compiled cache files to implement a real incremental build and uses some components of Buck such as dx and DexMerger to speed up the build tasks. -
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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. -
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SuperAgent
Ajax for Node.js and browsers (JS HTTP client)
SuperAgent is light-weight progressive ajax API crafted for flexibility, readability, and a low learning curve after being frustrated with many of the existing request APIs. It also works with Node.js! Small progressive client-side HTTP request library, and Node.js module with the same API, supporting many high-level HTTP client features. Browser-ready versions of this module are available via jsdelivr, unpkg, and also in the node_modules/superagent/dist folder in downloads of the superagent package. If you are using browserify, webpack, rollup, or another bundler, then you can follow the same usage as Node. SuperAgent is easily extended via plugins. The Node client supports making requests to Unix Domain Sockets. DELETE, HEAD, PATCH, POST, and PUT requests can also be used, simply change the method name. Absolute URLs can be used. In web browsers absolute URLs work only if the server implements CORS. -
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Uno Platform
Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps
The first and only UI Platform for single-codebase applications for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux. The only open source-platform for creating true single-source, multi-platform applications. Reuse 99% of the business logic and UI layer across native mobile, web and desktop. Maintain pixel-perfect control over where pixels go while having a choice of developing a platform-specific or custom look and feel of your application. Familiarity and richness of C# and XAML combined with productivity boosts of hot reload, hot restart, edit and continue and more. Use familiar editors like Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code or Rider. Free and paid support is available by both community and our team. Chats, tickets or even screen sharing! Seeing is believing. Learn by doing. See code samples our engineers put out for fun, learning and reuse. Explore the possibilities Uno Platform opens. -
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Vue Native
Vue Native is a framework to build cross platform native mobile apps
Vue Native is a framework to build cross-platform native mobile apps using JavaScript. It is a wrapper around the APIs of React Native. So, with Vue Native, you can do everything that you can do with React Native. With Vue Native, you get the simplicity of Vue.js. Incrementally build user interfaces with the familiar syntax of HTML and CSS in single file components. Seamless interop with React Native. Use core React Native components with Vue.js syntax out of the box to develop mobile apps on both iOS and Android. The Vue Native CLI can be used to easily generate a fully configured Vue Native app. It wraps expo-cli and react-native-cli to generate a simple single page application (SPA) after installing and configuring dependencies from vue-native-core. You should have either expo-cli or react-native-cli installed as a global dependency. -
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Hippy
Tool to build cross-platform and high-performance awesome apps
Hippy is a cross-platform development framework, aiming to help developers write once, run on three platforms(iOS, Android and Web). Hippy is quite friendly to Web developers, especially who are familiar with React or Vue. With Hippy, developers are able to create the cross platform app easily. Hippy is now applied in 27+ Tencent apps such as Mobile QQ, Mobile QQ Browser, Tencent Video App, QQ Music App, Tencent News, reaching hundreds of millions of ordinary users. For Android, we recommend using the real cellphone for better develop experience, because Hippy is using X5 JS engine which can't support x86 simulator, as well as ARM simulator has a low performance. For iOS, we recommend to use iOS simulator when first try. However, you can change the Xcode configuration to install the app to iPhone if you are an iOS expert. -
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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. -
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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. -
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Epoxy
Android library for building complex screens in a RecyclerView
Epoxy is an Android library for building complex screens in a RecyclerView. Models are automatically generated from custom views or databinding layouts via annotation processing. These models are then used in an EpoxyController to declare what items to show in the RecyclerView. This abstracts the boilerplate of view holders, diffing items and binding payload changes, item types, item ids, span counts, and more, in order to simplify building screens with multiple view types. Additionally, Epoxy adds support for saving view state and automatic diffing of item changes. We developed Epoxy at Airbnb to simplify the process of working with RecyclerViews, and to add the missing functionality we needed. We now use Epoxy for most of the main screens in our app and it has improved our developer experience greatly. If you are using layout resources in Epoxy annotations then for library projects add Butterknife's gradle plugin to your buildscript. -
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Litho
A declarative framework for building efficient UIs on Android
Litho uses a declarative API to define UI components. You simply describe the layout for your UI based on a set of immutable inputs and the framework takes care of the rest. With code generation, Litho can perform optimisations for your UI under the hood, while keeping your code simple and easy to maintain. Litho can measure and layout your UI ahead of time without blocking the UI thread. By decoupling its layout system from the traditional Android View system, Litho can drop the UI thread constraint imposed by Android. Litho uses Yoga for layout and automatically reduces the number of ViewGroups that your UI contains. This, in addition to Litho's text optimizations, allows for much smaller view hierarchies and improves both memory and scroll performance. -
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Quasar Framework
Build high-performance VueJS user interfaces in record time
Effortlessly build high-performance & high-quality Vue.js 3 user interfaces in record time. Combine the power of Quasar UI with Quasar CLI. One source code for all platforms simultaneously with all the latest and greatest best practices out of the box. Focus only on your app's features and forget about the boilerplate around it. Build high-performance VueJS user interfaces in record time: responsive Single Page Apps, SSR Apps, PWAs, Browser extensions, Hybrid Mobile Apps and Electron Apps. If you want, all using the same codebase! You get a state-of-the-art UI (that follows Material Guidelines) for your websites and apps out of the box. Best support for desktop and mobile browsers (including iOS Safari!) out of the box. Best-in-class support for each build mode (SPA, SSR, PWA, Mobile app, Desktop app & Browser Extension) and the best developer experience through a tight integration with our own CLI.
