Nixapks

A repository of derivations that builds as much open source android applications as possible.

Tasks

• After adding 10 different apps (they all can be successfully built) ask to migrate this repo to the nix-community org.

• Add CI that builds all apps on every commit.

• Add first flutter app.

• Add first react-native app.

• Add first ionic app.

• Add documentation on github pages.

• Add binary cache

• Design a proper meta field for the needs of android apps.

  • description
  • license
  • source
  • main page
  • maintainers
  • minSdkVersion (explain what is this)
  • targetSdkVersion (explain what is this)
  • compileSdkVersion (explain what is this)
  • buildToolsVersion (explain what is this)
  • abi (list of supported abis: armeabi-v7a, arm64-v8a, x86, x86_64)

Notes

Successful nix apk builds:

• https://github.com/CrazyChaoz/Minimal-Android-UWB-App
• https://github.com/iyox-studios/iyox-Wormhole
• https://github.com/expenses/irohdroid
• https://github.com/nix-community/robotnix/tree/master/apks/chromium
• 463c3f6606/apks/fdroid
• https://github.com/SpiralP/mobile_nebula

Important tools:

• https://github.com/CrazyChaoz/gradle-dot-nix : This flake can generate the full maven repo required to build a gradle app from gradle/verification-metadata.xml, all in the sandbox, without code generation.
• https://github.com/tadfisher/gradle2nix : Generate Nix expressions which build Gradle-based projects.
• https://github.com/tadfisher/android-nixpkgs : All packages from the Android SDK repository, packaged with Nix.
• gradle.fetchDeps : A tool to fetch Gradle dependencies and generate a Nix expression for them. This is used in nixpks to fetch the dependencies of the Gradle build system and generate deps.json files.