As an Android developer, you are probably using Android Studio with Gradle, the new build system for Android applications (which can be slow but I’ve found somewhat of a solution). One of the cool advantages is the dependency management that automatically downloads artifacts from a repository and makes them available to your application. Basically, you just add one line into your build.gradle file and your library is included. Pretty easy, right?

But do you know precisely that line?

For this purpose I’ve created ALFI:

gem install alfi

Why did I feel the need to create it?

Lets take a look at the alternatives…

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