accrescent / bundletool-gradle-plugin

A Gradle plugin for Google's bundletool

Accrescent

A novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability.

Currently in early alpha.

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About

Accrescent is a private and secure Android app store built with modern features in mind. It aims to provide a developer-friendly platform and pleasant user experience while enforcing modern security and privacy practices and offering robust validity guarantees for installed apps. It does this through the following features:

• App signing key pinning
• Signed repository metadata
• Automatic, unprivileged, unattended updates (Android 12+)
• First-class support for split APKs
• No remote APK signing
• Meaningful quality control for submitted apps
• No account requirement for installing apps

...and more. See the features page on the website for details.

Accrescent currently runs on Android 10 and up.

Contributions are welcome! If you're interested in helping out, be sure to check out the contributing guidelines for tips on getting started.

Signing certificate hash

Accrescent's SHA-256 signing certificate hash is as follows:

067a40c4193aad51ac87f9ddfdebb15e24a1850babfa4821c28c5c25c3fdc071

Be sure to check it against the hashes on our website and Twitter to verify its legitimacy.

Translations

Accrescent has a project on Hosted Weblate if you would like to help translate.

Trademark

The name "Accrescent" and the Accrescent logo are common law trademarks owned by the Accrescent project. All other parties are forbidden from using Accrescent's name and branding, as are derivatives of Accrescent. Derivatives include, but are not limited to forks and unofficial builds.

bundletool-gradle-plugin's Issues

Add option for removing compressed native libraries when applicable

As a follow-up to #3, it would be helpful to have an option to strip an APK set of APKs containing compressed native libraries when equivalent APKs with uncompressed native libraries exist. We should be able to enable this by default since the latest version of Android which doesn't support uncompressed native libraries is API 23 (Android 6), and Accrescent doesn't have any plans to add support for Android versions that low.

Allow building only split APKs

As per the default behavior of bundletool, standalone APKs are generated when generating an APK set for an app with minSdk < 21. This is not always desirable since the publishing app store may not support such old versions of Android and so will waste disk space since split APKs are sufficient for its needs. There should be an option to override this behavior and only build split APKs even for apps with a minSdk < 21.

The easiest (and most likely best) way to override this behavior is simply to override the app's minSdk from this plugin. This also has the advantage of solving the related (albeit less severe) issue of split APKs with compressed native libraries being generated when uncompressed native libraries are supported (the issue is less severe since it doesn't often produce nearly as much wasted disk space).

Upstream issue: google/bundletool#309

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• Update plugin com.gradle.plugin-publish to v1.2.0

Detected dependencies

github-actions

.github/workflows/build.yaml

• actions/checkout v3
• actions/setup-java v3

.github/workflows/validate-gradle-wrapper.yaml

• actions/checkout v3
• gradle/wrapper-validation-action v1

gradle

settings.gradle.kts

bundletool-gradle-plugin/build.gradle.kts

• com.gradle.plugin-publish 1.1.0
• org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm 1.8.20
• com.android.tools:sdklib 30.4.2
• com.android.tools.build:bundletool 1.14.0
• com.android.tools.build:gradle 7.4.2

gradle-wrapper

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

• gradle 8.0.2

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Support older versions of the Android Gradle Plugin

For some reason, the onVariants method can't be found when using AGP < 7.4.0. We should find a way to support at least back to 7.2.2 or so since many projects are still on these versions.