ArkLib

This is the home of core ARK-Navigator library.

Being implemented in Rust, it provides us capability to port ARK-Navigator to all common platforms.
The purpose of the library is to manage tag storage and resource index.

The Concept of the library

Resource index is what allows ARK-Navigator to work store metadata of files without paying attention to their paths. Basically, it is just mapping between paths and ids. Currently, ids are CRC-32 checksums but more complicated ids should be invented for a numerous reasons, see ARK-Builders/ARK-Navigator#147

We call a file as "resource" in our app, because resources could be decoupled from particular filesystems in future.

Tag storage is what makes files searchable using simple concept of "tags". At the moment, tag storage is just mapping between resource ids to sets of tags.

Right now, both index and storage are defined only as Kotlin code in ARK-Navigator. They are being ported into Rust.

Interfaces to the library

At the moment, only Android wrapper exists:
https://github.com/ARK-Builders/arklib-android

This connector can be used to implement apps with capability of marking local resources with tags for future search.

Applications using the library

ARK-Navigator itself, which is resource navigator for Android. You can think about it as file browser enabled with tags feature for any file.
https://github.com/ARK-Builders/ARK-Navigator

Auxiliary tool for working with folders containing tags, from your laptop using terminal.
https://github.com/ARK-Builders/ARK-CLI

Prerequisites

• PDFium prebuilt (bblanchon)

Build

Like most of Rust projects:

cargo build --release

Run unit tests:

cargo test