/AboutLibraries

AboutLibraries is a library to offer some information of libraries.

Primary LanguageKotlinApache License 2.0Apache-2.0

AboutLibraries Status Maven Central

.. allows you to easily create an used open source libraries fragment/activity within your app. All the library information is automatically collected from the POM information of your depencencies and included during compile time. No runtime overhead. Strong caching. Any dependency is supported.

What's included 🚀 • Setup 🛠️ • Migration Guide 🧬 • WIKI 📖 • Used by • Sample App

What's included 🚀

  • used open source libraries
    • name, description, creator, license, version, ...
  • about this app section (optional)
  • autodetect libraries (via the gradle depencies)
  • many included library details
  • automatic created fragment/activity
  • feature rich builder to simply create and start the fragment / activities
  • large amount of configuration options
    • usage standalone possible too
  • much much more... try the sample for a quick overview.

Screenshots

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Setup

Latest releases 🛠

Gradle Plugin

As a new feature of the AboutLibraries v8.x.y we offer a gradle plugin which will resolve the dependency during compilation, and only includes the libraries which are really specified as dependencies.

// Root build.gradle
classpath "com.mikepenz.aboutlibraries.plugin:aboutlibraries-plugin:${latestAboutLibsRelease}"

// App build.gradle
apply plugin: 'com.mikepenz.aboutlibraries.plugin'

Using Maven

The AboutLibraries Library is pushed to Maven Central.

CORE module

implementation "com.mikepenz:aboutlibraries-core:${latestAboutLibsRelease}"

UI module

implementation "com.mikepenz:aboutlibraries:${latestAboutLibsRelease}"

//required support lib modules
implementation "androidx.appcompat:appcompat:${versions.appcompat | 1.x.y}"
implementation "androidx.cardview:cardview:${versions.cardview | 1.x.y}"
implementation "androidx.recyclerview:recyclerview:${versions.recyclerview | 1.1.y}"
implementation "com.google.android.material:material:${versions.material | 1.1.y}"

Basic Usage

You can use this library in a few different ways. Create your own activity, including a custom style or just use its generated information. Or simply use the built-in Activity or Fragment and just pass the libs you would love to include.

Activity / Fragment

NOTE: These integrations require the ui-module

Activity

LibsBuilder()
    .start(this) // start the activity

Fragment

val fragment = LibsBuilder()
    .withFields(R.string::class.java.fields) // in some cases it may be needed to provide the R class, if it can not be automatically resolved
    .withLibraryModification("aboutlibraries", Libs.LibraryFields.LIBRARY_NAME, "_AboutLibraries") // optionally apply modifications for library information
    .supportFragment()

Gradle API

The gradle plugin will automatically run when building the application, so no action is required to build the library information showed / retrieved via the Libs class. But there are additional commands which may be helpful for various situations.

Export Library information

./gradlew exportLibraries // exists also per variant

Exports all libraries in a CSV format with the name, artifactId, and licenseId. And a seperate list with all licenses used, and a potential list of unmatched libraries / licenses.

Find

./gradlew findLibraries

Finds all included libraries with their name, and the unique AboutLibraries identifier which can be used to modify libraries and their information, or create custom mapping information if required. See the Config section for more information.

Advanced Usage

Access generated library details

If you want to create your own integration you can access the generated library information programmatically through the code module.

val libraries = Libs(this).libraries
for (lib in libraries) {
    Log.e("AboutLibraries", "${lib.libraryName} from ${lib.author}")
}

About this App UI

You can also use the AboutLibraries activity as an "about this app" screen. Add the following .xml file (or just the strings - the key must be the same) to your project.

<resources>
    <string name="aboutLibraries_description_showIcon">true</string>
    <string name="aboutLibraries_description_showVersion">true</string>
    <string name="aboutLibraries_description_text">Place your description here :D</string>
</resources>

or use the builder and add following:

	.withAboutIconShown(true)
	.withAboutVersionShown(true)
	.withAboutDescription("This is a small sample which can be set in the about my app description file.<br /><b>You can style this with html markup :D</b>")

Style the AboutLibraries 🖌️

Create your custom style. If you don't need a custom theme see the next section, how you can set the colors just by overwriting the original colors.

// define a custom style
<style name="CustomAboutLibrariesStyle" parent="">
    <!-- AboutLibraries specific values -->
    <item name="aboutLibrariesWindowBackground">?android:colorBackground</item>
    <item name="aboutLibrariesCardBackground">?cardBackgroundColor</item>
    <item name="aboutLibrariesDescriptionTitle">?android:textColorPrimary</item>
    <item name="aboutLibrariesDescriptionText">?android:textColorSecondary</item>
    <item name="aboutLibrariesDescriptionDivider">@color/opensource_divider</item>
    <item name="aboutLibrariesOpenSourceTitle">?android:textColorPrimary</item>
    <item name="aboutLibrariesOpenSourceText">?android:textColorSecondary</item>
    <item name="aboutLibrariesSpecialButtonText">?android:textColorPrimary</item>
    <item name="aboutLibrariesOpenSourceDivider">@color/opensource_divider</item>
</style>

// define the custom styles for the theme
<style name="SampleApp" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.NoActionBar">
    ...
    <item name="aboutLibrariesStyle">@style/CustomAboutLibrariesStyle</item>
    ...
</style>

Gradle Plugin Configuration

It is possible to provide custom configurations / adjustments to the automatic detection. This can be done via the gradle plugin.

aboutLibraries {
    configPath = "config" // the path to the directory containing configuration files
}

This directory may contain one or more of the following configurations:

custom_enchant_mapping.prop // allows providing custom mapping files to overwrite the information from the POM file
custom_license_mappings.prop // allows defining the licenseId which should be used for the library (if not resolveable via the POM file)
custom_license_year_mappings.prop // allows defining the license Year for this library (this information CANNOT be resolved from the POM file)
custom_name_mappings.prop // allows overwriting the name of a library if the POM specifies unexpected information

See the corresponding files here for the format and content: https://github.com/mikepenz/AboutLibraries/tree/develop/library-definitions/src/main/res/raw

Usage WITHOUT gradle plugin (not recommended)

If you do not want to use the gradle plugin, you need to add the legacy definition files, which will then be included in the built apk, and resolved via reflection during runtime.

NOTE: This is not recommended. Please migrate to use the gradle plugin

implementation "com.mikepenz:aboutlibraries-definitions:${latestAboutLibsRelease}"

ProGuard

Exclude R from ProGuard to enable the libraries auto detection

-keep class .R
-keep class **.R$* {
    <fields>;
}

In case you want to minimize your resources as much as possible use the following rules (Thanks to @rubengees and @AllanWang as discussed here: mikepenz#331)

-keepclasseswithmembers class **.R$* {
    public static final int define_*;
}

These rules will require you to add the libraries manually. (see more in the above linked issue)

Disclaimer

This library uses all compile time dependencies (and their sub dependencies) as defined in your build.gradle file, this could lead to dependencies which are only used during compilation (and not actually distributed in your app) to be listed or missing in the attribution screen. It might also fail to identify licenses if the dependencies do not define it properly in their pom.xml file.

Careful optimisation and review of all licenses is recommended to really include all required dependencies. The use of the gradle commands like findLibraries can help doing this.

It is also important that native sub dependencies can not be resolved automatically as they are not included via gradle. Additional dependencies can be provided via this plugins API to extend and provide any additional details.

Used by

(feel free to send me new projects)

Developed By

License

Copyright 2020 Mike Penz

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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