Android Studio Poet

Optimise your Android Studio builds, by creating generated projects. Inspired by GradleBuildExperiment. A tool to generate real life Java and Kotlin Android projects to analyze and improve build times.

Create a real life complexity Android project that mimics your own and observe the build times. If the build times of the generated project are way smaller than yours, it might be worth inspecting deeply your build configs and optimize.

Features

• Configurable number of modules
• Configurable number of packages
• Configurable number of classes
• Configurable number of inter module dependencies
• Android resources (images, strings, activities, layouts)
• Configure how to generate UI layer code
• Configurable version of Gradle, Kotlin, the Android Gradle Plugin
• Experimental Bazel support
• Compose and DataBinding support

Download & Run

IntelliJ IDEA/Android Studio

1. Clone the project
2. Open and run in your IDE

Standalone Jar

Grab the latest JAR and run java -jar as-poet.jar.

Command line arguments

Android Studio Poet supports the following command line arguments

1. Config - just run java -jar as-poet.jar MyConfig.json
2. Folder with configs - just run java -jar as-poet.jar <path to a folder with configs> Android Studio Poet will crawl the folder recursively and execute each config in turn.

Build & Run

1. Clone the repo
2. ./gradlew aspoet:fatJar
3. java -jar aspoet/build/libs/aspoet-all.jar

How

• The generated sources will include the basic functionality of method calling both in class itself and between the generated classes, both in Java and Kotlin

• The generated build.gradle files will include other modules as dependencies

• You can control Android resources (images, layouts etc')

• You can control product flavors

• You can have both source and resources inter-module dependencies

UI layer configurations

• Specify dataBindingConfig for Data Binding
  • It has a property listenerCount to indicate the number of data variables.
  • It has a property kapt to specify whether we want to use Java Annotation Processor or Kapt to process data bindings.
• Specify viewBinding for View Binding.
• Specify composeConfig for Compose.
  • It has a property actionCount to indicate the number of clickable actions.
• If nothing above is specified, the UI layer code will be traditional XML-based layout.
• Errors will be thrown when two of the above config is specified.

This is not an official Google product.

License

Copyright 2021 Google Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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