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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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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. -
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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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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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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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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. -
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Angular Components
Material Design components for Angular
Internationalized and accessible components for everyone. Well tested to ensure performance and reliability. Straightforward APIs with consistent cross platform behaviour. Provide tools that help developers build their own custom components with common interaction patterns. Customizable within the bounds of the Material Design specification. Built by the Angular team to integrate seamlessly with Angular. Start from scratch or drop into your existing applications. In Angular Material, you create a color configuration by composing multiple palettes. Angular Material theme styles are generated statically at build-time so that your app doesn't have to spend cycles generating theme styles when bootstrapping. -
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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. -
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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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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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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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.NET Docs
This repository contains .NET Documentation
This repository contains the conceptual documentation for .NET. The .NET documentation site is built from multiple repositories. Issues and tasks for all but the API reference repository are tracked here. We have a large community using these resources. We make our best effort to respond to issues in a timely fashion. .NET is a free, open-source development platform for building many types of applications. Share functionality between different applications and application types using class libraries. With .NET, your project code and files look the same, regardless of the type of application you build. With each application you have access to the same language, API, and runtime capabilities. .NET allows you to use platform-specific functionality, such as operating system APIs. Some examples are Windows Forms and WPF on Windows and the native bindings to each mobile platform from Xamarin. -
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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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LoopBack
Build modern applications that require complex integrations
A highly extensible Node.js and TypeScript framework for building APIs and microservices. A brand new LoopBack core to deliver great extensibility and flexibility written in TypeScript/ES2017. Create powerful APIs easily with a new creation experience for defining REST API's and handling API requests/responses. A new, improved programming model with Dependency Injection and new concepts such as Components, Mixins, Repositories, etc. make this the most extensible version yet. Using OpenAPI-to-GraphQL, create a GraphQL interface for any REST API. Schemas are used to create GraphQL data definitions, and links defined in the OAS are used to create a nested structure, allowing for (deeply) nested queries. GraphQL-incompatible identifiers of your API are sanitized. For example, API parameters or data definitions with unsupported characters (e.g., -, ., ,, :, ;...) are removed. -
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Weex
A framework for building Mobile cross-platform UI
Weex is a framework for building performant mobile apps with modern web technology. Weex is using native components and native modules to take advantage of native rendering performance and platform capabilities. Both components and modules are pluggable and extendable. You can use a single codebase to generate different bundle files to running on both Webs, Android and iOS platforms. Native components and modules have a different implementation on each platform, but they all exposed the same API. Weex embraces the existing Web ecosystem, you can use modern front-end technology to develop your mobile apps. Weex supports most commonly used CSS properties and most popular front-end frameworks, such as Vue and Rax, maybe more in the future. Weex has been large-scale used in many super apps for a long time, served almost billions of people in total. Weex also derived many engineering products and platforms for industry development. -
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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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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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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. -
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builder
Easily build software for your Linux distro repo
This project is a wrapper script using generated profiles that include any desired patches and files (such as .desktop, icons, and configurations) to easily update, build, and package the software to be made available in your Linux distributions' online repository. So instead of worrying about how to compile for autoconf, autogen, bootstrap, cmake, or the traditional configure, make, make install, for each software title in your repo, builder will take care of all those details so you can focus on the more important parts of your project! Currently, builder can compile for AMD/Intel 32 and 64 bit along with ARM v6/7 (most notably for the Raspberry PI). The available profiles will successfully build for the XiniX and TC Linux distros, but contributions from others for those variants or others are welcomed and will be added to the database for all to use! Profiles can be found at: http://repo.cliquesoft.org/vanilla/1.1/builder/ [TC|XiniX] -
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Android Cache Fix Gradle Plugin
Gradle plugin that fixes Android build caching problems
The Android Cache Fix Gradle Plugin is developed by the Gradle team to improve build cache correctness and performance for Android builds. It applies workarounds and adjustments for known issues in the Android Gradle Plugin that interfere with build caching. This plugin ensures that tasks are cacheable when they otherwise wouldn’t be, and it applies targeted fixes for bugs affecting incremental and cached builds, thus improving overall efficiency in Android projects. -
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Android Scents for Maven
Android Scents for animal-sniffer-maven-plugin
If you want to verify your Maven project (library) can also work in Android, you can use animal-sniffer-maven-plugin to check the API against the desired API level. Android Scents will be pushed to Maven Central in groupid "net.sf.androidscents.signature". -
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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. -
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Awesome Cordova Plugins
Native features for mobile apps built with Cordova/PhoneGap
Awesome Cordova Plugins is a curated set of wrappers for Cordova plugins that make adding any native functionality you need to your Ionic mobile app easy. Awesome Cordova Plugins wraps plugin callbacks in a Promise or Observable, providing a common interface for all plugins and making it easy to use plugins with Angular change detection. In addition to Cordova, Awesome Cordova Plugins also works with Capacitor, Ionic's official native runtime. You also need to install the Awesome Cordova Plugins package for each plugin you want to add. To use a plugin, import and add the plugin provider to your @NgModule, and then inject it where you wish to use it. Make sure to import the injectable class from the /ngx directory. React apps must use Capacitor to build native mobile apps. However, Awesome Cordova Plugins (and therefore, Cordova plugins) can still be used. -
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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.
