Drone

The missing library manager for Android Developers

Summary

⚡ Blazing fast way to add libraries
🎉 No need to search the web for that library
🚀 Intuitive, easy-to-learn tool
💎 Add multiple dependencies with a one liner
✌️ Automated dependency and package management
🔨 Automatic import custom urls (e.g. jitpack)

What is it?

As an android developer I was jealous of the node.js community for their fast and reliable dependency managers, it's so easy to write yarn add <library> and a library is imported into the project... So I made drone for android!

If you think about it there are like 50 libraries that are used in 95% of the apps (retrofit, rxjava, gson, picasso, roboletric, recyclerview-v7, etc.)

I made this because every time I want to add (lets say) butterknife I need to

google butterknife
go to the readme
find the lines to copy
notice that butterknife has 2 dependencies
copy and paste in my gradle file
OPTIONAL if it was not in jcenter, go to the main build gradle and put the custom URL

OR...

drone add jakewharton/butterknife

and everything will be done for you automatically

Install

npm install -g drone

Usage

Simple usage:

drone add creator/library module

Usage

   $ drone <command> <params>

   $ drone install                            # Downloads the packages
   $ drone test <creator/library>             # Tests the library by fetching its version
   $ drone add <creator/library> <module>     # Adds a dependency to a module
   $ drone remove <creator/library> <module>  # Removes the dependency from a module
   $ drone info <creator/library>             # Retrieves the info for this package
   $ drone update                             # Get the latest packages
   $ drone list                               # List all of the packages
   $ drone stats                              # Get some stats regarding the hive
   $ drone hive                               # Opens the hive url
   $ drone open <creator/library>             # Opens the library's homepage
   $ drone new                                # Creates a new one if it's not in the server yet
   $ drone search <library>                   # Searches for the 'library' in the hive

 Examples

   $ drone install                            # Downloads the packages
   $ drone info square/picasso                # Shows the info for square/picasso
   $ drone add square/retrofit app            # Adds retrofit to the 'app' module 
   $ drone rm square/retrofit app             # removes retrofit from the 'app' module 
   $ drone open google/gson                   # Opens GSONs homepage
   $ drone new                                # takes you throught the creation wizard
   $ drone search rxjava                      # Searches the hive for 'rxjava'
   $ drone test square/picasso                # Tests the library by fetching its version

Where are the libraries?

Instead of maintaining a server with all the possible libraries I'm going with a brew approach, the community will create a library once and it will be available to everyone else forever in the hive!

$ drone new

follow the wizard to generate the <library>.json file then open the pull request in the hive with this format:

hive/<creator/library>.json

If you look closely, when you type square/retrofit, drone will autofill everything for you, and even if it takes a few hours for the pull request to be accepted you'll be able to do drone add square/retrofit because the drone new task will add it to your personal server/folder.

Created by

Cesar Ferreira

License

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