Gecko

Gecko is a toolchain allowing for somewhat more pleasant development of API features. Its own features vary by platform, where Android is getting the most love and a standalone application which saves all content of all given requests/responses for later debugging.

How does it work?

1. accepts metadata
   1. GeckoMetadata[foo=bar,…]
2. serializes them
   1. M=bar…
3. compresses them
   1. ????P?…
4. base64 encodes them
   1. gg3QH2Q==
5. builds an url
   1. https://diareuse.github.io/gecko/?q=gg3QH2Q==
6. prints to output
   1. V/System.out: https://diareuse.github.io/gecko/?q=gg3QH2Q==

The frontend does the exact reverse and nothing more. You can check the repository for more info.

You can always just try it out

Links!

• Visit our Wiki
• Android Usage
• Verbose Usage

Download

Gecko aims to be debug only where you don't need to care about predictability too much. You can safely use "+" as a version. You can be also a little bit cautious and use "0.+" instead to avoid api breaking changes, if there are any.

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    debugImplementation "io.github.diareuse:gecko-core:+"
    debugImplementation "io.github.diareuse:gecko-okhttp:+"
    debugImplementation "io.github.diareuse:gecko-android:+"
    debugImplementation "io.github.diareuse:gecko-android-ui:+"
    debugImplementation "io.github.diareuse:gecko-android-notification:+"
}

Where is it?!

Try long pressing the application icon and Gecko! should be there. If it detects that it cannot create any shortcuts it automatically creates a launcher icon.

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