Credit: The idea of the installation process and the project structures is inspired by Rush. Thanks a ton, Shreyash 👍🎁

🏃‍♂️ FAST is An Efficient Way to Build & Publish App Inventor Extensions.
With FAST, you no longer need to use any class level annotations except @DesignerComponent.

Explore the wiki section for comprehensive overview and step-by-step instructions on FAST.

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🥇 Premium features

• Gradle Dependency Resolver.
• Maven Dependency Resolver.
• Attach AAR Libraries.
• Attach Custom XML.
• Ability to apply ProGuard/R8 rules from runtime AARs.
• Support for compiling AIDL sources.

🔥 Hot features

• Dynamic Android compile SDK API level.
• Generates docs in Markdown.
• Generates blocks as PNG for each builder when -b passed.
• Dynamic ProGuard library.
• Integration of R8 Shrinker.
• Dynamic Kotlin Compiler.
• Seamless support for Java and Kotlin languages.
• Support AAR as dependencies.
• Support for multi-components in extension.
• Integration of new red drop-down helper blocks.
• All @annotations will be removed from built AIX even no ProGuard/R8.
• Added support for GitHub Actions workflows.

💧 Cool features

• Code suggestions on VSCode, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA & Android Studio.
• Ability to declare manifest in AndroidManifest.xml.
• Support shorthand class names (e.g: ...MyService) in manifest.
• Keep classes declared in manifest automatically when -m passed.
• Auto Project migration from Rush, extension-template & AI2 source based project.
• Jetifier to migrate Android support libraries to Androidx.
• Java 8 support, including lambda expressions ()->.
• Generates a smaller size of extension.
• Ability to filter AI2 provided classes to reduce the AIX size.
• Ready for server side integration.

• Windows
• Linux
• MacOS
• Android (Termux)

Refer to this wiki to install the FAST on your system.

Refer to this wiki to update the FAST to the latest version.

1. Open or navigate terminal at where you want to create your extension project.
2. Run fast create <ProjectName>
3. Enter the package name.
4. Enter author name.
5. Select language.
6. Done.

1. Open or navigate termanl at where the FAST project is.
2. Run fast build to build the project.
3. Done. The compiled extension should be inside the out directory.

1. Make sure that ProGuard is enabled in fast.yml.
2. Run the build command with -r.

1. Make sure that R8 is enabled in fast.yml
2. Run the build command with -s.

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