Building App Manager

Requirements

• Hardware: Any computer with 8 GB RAM and 20 GB storage
• Operating system: Linux/macOS (no support for Windows)
• Software: Android Studio/IntelliJ IDEA, Gradle, Latex, pandoc, JDK 17+
• Active network connection: Depending on your development environment, you may need at least 20 GB data package.

macOS

The following steps are required only if you want to build APKS:

• Install Homebrew:

  /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
  

• Install bundletool:

  brew install bundletool
  

Linux|GNU

• Install the development tools.

  • For Debian/Ubuntu:

    sudo apt-get install build-essential
    

  • For Fedora/CentOS/RHEL:

    sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
    

  • For Arch/Artix/Manjaro:

    sudo pacman -S base-devel
    

• Install bundletool-all.jar if you want to build APKS, and make sure it is available as bundletool command. A quick way would be to create a file bundletool in /usr/local/bin directory with the following content:

  #!/usr/bin/env bash
  exec java -jar "/path/to/bundletool-all.jar" "$@"
  

  Make sure to replace /path/to/bundletool-all.jar with the actual path for bundletool-all.jar. Also, make the file executable:

  chmod +x /usr/local/bin/bundletool
  

Clone and Build App Manager

1. Clone the repo along with submodules:

   git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager.git
   

   You can use the --depth 1 argument if you don't want to clone past commits.

2. Open the project AppManager using Android Studio/IntelliJ IDEA. The IDE should start syncing automatically. It will also download all the necessary dependencies automatically provided you have a working network connection.

3. Build debug version of App Manager from Menu > Build > Make Project, or, from the terminal:

   ./gradlew packageDebugUniversalApk
   

   The command will generate a universal APK instead of a bundled app.

Create Bundled App

To create a bundled app in APKS format, run the following command:

./scripts/aab_to_apks.sh type

Replace type with release or debug based on your requirements. It will ask for KeyStore credentials interactively.

The script above will also generate a universal APK.

Build documentation

See docs/raw/en/README.md