The crossbow project aims to provide a complete toolkit for cross-platform game development in Rust - from project creation to publishing. In addition, the project simplifies the creation, packaging, and signing of Android and iOS applications. We want to make most of our tools - engine agnostic to help rust game developers integrate them into their engines or games.
There are already cargo-apk, cargo-mobile, cargo-xcode, etc. - why do I need another packaging tool?
Project crossbow is not only a packaging tool for Android and iOS - it's a toolkit. With crossbundle-tools you can customize and create new commands; with crossbundle you can create native .apk/.aab without any Java or setup Gradle project with fancy Crossbow Android plugins (iOS in near future); with crossbow-android you can write your own Android plugins in Java/Kotlin.
To install crossbundle, run:
sh
cargo install --git=https://github.com/dodorare/crossbow crossbundle
See installation documentation for more details on how to setup environment on your platform.
Crossbundle crates:
| Name | Description | Status |
| ---- | ----------- | ------ |
| crossbundle | Command-line tool for building applications. | ✅ |
| crossbundle-tools | Toolkit used in crossbundle to build/pack/sign bundles. | ✅ |
Crossbow Plugins:
| Name | Description | Status | | ---- | ----------- | ------ | | crossbow-admob | Google AdMob Plugin for Android. | 🆗 | | crossbow-play-billing | Google Play Billing for Android. | 📝 | | crossbow-play-games-sdk | Google Play Games Sdk for Android. | 📝 |
Helper crates:
| Name | Description | Status | | ---- | ----------- | ------ | | android-tools-rs | Android-related tools for building and developing application. | ✅ | | android-manifest-rs | AndroidManifest serializer and deserializer for Rust. | ✅ | | apple-bundle-rs | AppleBundleResources serializer and deserializer for Rust. | ✅ |
✅ = Works and tested — 🆗 = Works but may contain bugs — 🛠 = Under development — 📝 = Planned
To learn how to run an example project on your own, build, test, and start using crossbow - read our full documentation here.
If you want to start development right away - see our Hello World example here.
If you want learn more about crossbundle we recommend that you read it's README here.
Check out our ROADMAP for a better understanding of what we are doing right now and what planned.
A lot of functionality was inspired by godot, cargo-apk, cargo-mobile.
Also, this project initially funded by Web3 Foundation Grants Program. Big cheers to them!
Licensed under Apache-2.0 License.
