Overview

Booster consists chiefly of transformers and tasks, transformers are used for byte code scanning or manipulation (depends on the transformer's functionalities), tasks are used for artifact processing, to satisfy specialized optimization requirements, Booster provides Transformer SPI and VariantProcessor SPI for developers to support customization.

The following figure shows the architecture of Booster:

Built-in Transformers

• booster-transform-toast

  Used to fix system bug caused by Toast on Android 7.1.1 (N MR1)

• booster-transform-lint

  Used for potential performance issue detecting

• booster-transform-shrink

  Used for constants shrinking in class file

• booster-transform-usage

  Used for API usage searching

Built-in Tasks

• booster-task-artifact

  Provides tasks show all artifacts

• booster-task-dependency

  Provides tasks to show the module identifier and file path of each dependency

• booster-task-permission

  Provides tasks to show Android permission usage of each dependency