Injector is a gradle plugin for android projects which helps to make third-party android libraries downloadable. Injector supports android gradle plugin 3.1.0+. For more information and background of Injector you can read this article.
Injector plugin extracts all aar files into build/exploded-aar directory then, merges all manifests to your project's manifest, copies all resources into your project's resource directory, generates R.java for aar libraries, compiles them and injects classes into library's class.jar and then creates dex files from jar files.
Injector consists of two parts: gradle plugin (to create dex files from aar and jar files) and android library (to load dex files)
Add maven central repository to your project's build script and add injector library to your classpath app.artyomd.injector:injector:{latest-version} . Your build script should look like the following
buildscript {
repositories {
google()
mavenCentral()
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.4'
classpath 'app.artyomd.injector:injector:{latest-version}'
}
}
After this, you can just apply plugin: 'app.artyomd.injector' in you android library module and use inject configuration to inject other libraries into your project. Injector also provides a configuration closure to exclude libraries with group/name and specify dex file location. Default location of dex file is build/outputs/inject/inject.dex. To generate dex file you must run of the following tasks createInjectDebugDexes or createInjectReleaseDexes
injectConfig{
enabled = true
excludeGroups = ["com.foo.*", "bar.foo.*"]
groups = [
"X": ["foo.bar.*"]
]
dexLocation = "/outputs/inject/inject.dex"
}
By default, we are excluding android libs such as com.android., android.arch., etc.
With this inject config you will get X.dex and inject.dex files in /outputs/inject/ directory and that dex files will not contain classes which packages are "com.foo.", "bar.foo." and X.dex will only conatn classes which packages are "foo.bar.*".
Injector also provides android helper library to inject dex files. Add maven central repository to your project dependencies and add "app.artyomd.injector:injector-android:{latest-version}" in your dependencies
repositories {
google()
mavenCentral()
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
implementation "app.artyomd.injector:injector-android:{latest-version}"
}
You can upload dex file to somewhere and then at runtime download and load it or copy dex file to assets folder then at runtime copy the file into internal storage and then load dex file. If your dex files are in the assets dir just use DexUtils.prepareDex to copy dex files into internal storage. Using DexUtils.loadDex you can load a list of dex files into your application at runtime.