Deprecation notice

[fkirc]

To make it easier for the newcomers:

This version of Zip4j is outdated. If you are looking for an easy way to integrate Zip4j into Android, then you can copy the Zip4j module of https://github.com/fkirc/secure-zip-notes into your Android Studio project and add a local gradle dependency.

Alternatively, you can just grab the most recent Zip4j source and write your own gradle file/module.

[joielechong]

Thanks for your notice! Can you make a standalone library for that? so I can make a pointer to your project and make this library deprecated.

[fkirc]

I believe that it is not worth to create a standalone library. I only created the following two files, everything else is just a copy of the zip4j source code:

https://github.com/fkirc/secure-zip-notes/blob/master/zip4j/build.gradle https://github.com/fkirc/secure-zip-notes/blob/master/zip4j/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml

I use Gradle instead of Maven and I compile it as an "Android library", which is somewhat suboptimal.

[fkirc]

Ironically, this repo is not as outdated as you might think. There exists a Zip4J version 2.0.X, but I consider the 2.0.X version as not ready for production usage until my recent issues are resolved: https://github.com/srikanth-lingala/zip4j/issues/

[johnml1135]

There have been quite a few updates to Zip4j recently (https://github.com/srikanth-lingala/zip4j/releases/tag/v2.1.4) I am very interested in using it, but I need it to work with streams as I am unzipping android data that is on the SD card (and need to use DocumentContract...urgh). Can you update to the most recent version?

[johnml1135]

I just realized a better way to use zip4j in my android project: reference it as an implementation (duh).

implementation 'net.lingala.zip4j:zip4j:2.1.4'

Make sure you also have mavenCentral added as a repo:

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    ...
}

[joielechong]

@johnml1135: Thanks for the notice! I'll mark this project as deprecated and point to the https://github.com/srikanth-lingala/zip4j project in the README.

[johnml1135]

Actually, I tried it in my project and it is crashing before it opens up even through it builds and loads fine... I will be investigating more this next week.

[johnml1135]

Someone created a basic android project: https://github.com/nicolabeghin/zip4jtest - found on zip4j issue 34. It may be the solution we need.

[johnml1135]

From https://github.com/srikanth-lingala/zip4j:

"And also, Zip4j now supports a minimum of JRE 8, as compared to JRE 5 with 1.x, which obviously will bring some nice features that I can make use of."

Android's support for Java 8 is spotty (https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support) and more work would have to be done to see how they could work together.