Rush • A new and improved way of building extensions

SRIKAR_B.S.S · December 3, 2021, 10:48am

Great, but it didn't work well for me

shreyash · December 3, 2021, 11:29am

Great tutorial, thanks! I've added a link to it in Rush's GitHub README.md.

Others have reported this issue earlier, but I haven't got much time to work on Rush recently. I will see if I can put together a small bugfix release later next week. For the time being, consider using other terminal emulators like Git Bash.

Aquib_Khan · December 5, 2021, 8:18am


C:\Users\Aquib\test>rush build
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• Build initialized

┌ Checking project files
│ info Checking metadata file (rush.yml)
│ info Checking AndroidManifest.xml file
└ done
┌ Compiling sources
│ info Picked 1 source file
└ failed

• Build failed [54ms] []

It always shows me build failed.
The directory doesn't contain any spaces.
And I have not modified anything.
@shreyash Help please.

shreyash · December 5, 2021, 12:35pm

It happens when Rush fails to invoke javac. Please refer to the following post:

Aquib_Khan · December 5, 2021, 3:37pm

Thank you sooo much !

shreyash · December 10, 2021, 5:46pm

Rush v1.2.4

What's new

Upgraded Kotlin compiler and standard library to version 1.5.32.
Upgraded Android platform SDK to version 31 (Android 12).
Added the ability to define the data required by the create command using CLI args. For example,
```
rush create awesome-extension --lang Kotlin --org com.example
```
Added the ability to set custom data directory using the RUSH_DATA_DIR environment variable.
```
RUSH_DATA_DIR="D:/rush/data-dir" rush build
```

Improvements

You can now use W and S keys along with arrow keys to select the language when creating a new extension. This is especially helpful in terminals where Rush fails to read the arrow keys don't work.
Added source JARs for App Inventor components, annotations, and Kotlin standard library. This means you will now be able to view source code and Javadocs of the above libraries in your IDE.

Bug fixes

Fixed the issue where extensions containing no blocks would cause compilation errors when exporting the app.
Fixed the issue that caused the unmappable character for encoding error in some cases when building the extension. [ref1, ref2].

To upgrade to Rush version 1.2.4 simply run rush upgrade. If you don't have Rush already installed check out the installation instruction mentioned in the first post.

Best,
Shreyash

Horizon · December 11, 2021, 1:53am

Thank you Shreyas for the great Update

Horizon · December 11, 2021, 2:44am

BTW @shreyash a silly advice
Is it possible to add aar files as deps
Or you could implement it in Rush

SRIKAR_B.S.S · December 11, 2021, 5:29am

Great update
Especially thanks for updating this, as its reported in many posts

shreyash · December 11, 2021, 7:02am

Rush v1.2.5 HOTFIX

Bug fixes

Fixed the bug that caused the builds to fail after upgrading Rush to version 1.2.4.

To upgrade to Rush version 1.2.5 simply run rush upgrade. If you don’t have Rush already installed check out the installation instruction mentioned in the first post.

Best,
Shreyash

shreyash · December 11, 2021, 7:04am

Nope, it's not possible to support AARs through Rush yet.

Horizon · December 11, 2021, 8:08am

@shreyash I am still getting error even my rush version v1.2.5

Please check it because this is very important

Thank You
Horizon

shreyash · December 11, 2021, 11:54am

Everything seems fine with v1.2.5 on my end. Please make sure that you've JDK properly set up. If the issue persists, run rush upgrade --force and then try again.

TIMAI2 · December 11, 2021, 12:17pm

Upgrade to v 1.2.5 works fine and builds OK here on Linux.

One note, if I run rush --version it still reports v 1.2.4

Horizon · December 11, 2021, 12:29pm

@shreyash is there any way to check the version of rush
So that I can confirm that I am on v1.2.5 only

Thank you

Alpha2020 · December 11, 2021, 12:45pm

You can run rush --version.

shreyash · December 11, 2021, 1:25pm

I forgot to update the version number. Whatever, I'm not releasing v1.2.6 just to fix the version number now...

If you have an active internet connection and running rush upgrade --force prints "Done! Rush was successfully upgraded to v1.2.5", then it means that you're on v1.2.5.

SRIKAR_B.S.S · December 11, 2021, 1:32pm

Done

P.S:
Its good though, don't mind...

PS C:\Users\Harish> rush --version
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Version:   1.2.4
Built on:  2021-12-11 06:56:51
PS C:\Users\Harish>

Horizon · December 12, 2021, 7:12am

dear @shreyash please see this...
am I doing something wrong

Please see this

shreyash · December 12, 2021, 4:32pm

If you are having issues selecting the extension's language, try defining it when running the create command. Like this:

rush create extension-name --lang Kotlin

You can do the similar thing with other options as well.

--org,     -o     For organization name
--version, -v     For version name
--author,  -a     For author name