Injectable app config for Android

Accelerate your projects with this development tool for Android that provides an instant UI for your app's config and settings. Instant. Easy. Useful.

• Who needs it?
• How does it work?
• Quickstart
• Future enhancements

Who needs it?

Use Jarvis if you:

• Need a hidden or "developer only" config menu
• Need editable local config
• Need to override remote config
• Need to easily experiment with complex things such as buffer sizes, thresholds and deltas
• Need a no-code-change solution to modifying your app's config and settings

How does it work?

Jarvis has 2 parts:

1. JarvisClient
   You integrate this small library with your own app.
   You define your app's config (in-code) which is pushed to the Jarvis App. Values can then be read from the client.

/**
 * 1. Define your app's config
 */
val config = jarvisConfig {

    withLockAfterPush = true

    withStringField {
        name = "Config field name"
        value = "Config value"
    }
}

/**
 * 2. Push your app's config to the Jarvis App
 */
val jarvis = JarvisClient.newInstance(context)
jarvis.pushConfigToJarvisApp(config)

/**
 * 3. Read config values
 */
val value = jarvis.getString("Config field name", "Default value")

2. Jarvis App
   You install this app on the same device as your own app.
   It receives and renders your app's config which can be edited at runtime.

Quickstart

See the demos:

1. jarvis-demo-simple: Minimum JarvisClient setup
2. jarvis-demo-advanced: Integrate JarvisClient only with debug builds

Future enhancements

1. Auto-restarting of a client app when specific config fields are updated
2. Support multiple client configs at the same time
3. Add a range selector to the Jarvis App UI for numerical field data types
4. Add local notifications to the Jarvis App (e.g: when a new config is received)