Orbital

A project by Qalarc — AI systems studio, Sydney, Australia. Built, shipped and maintained by Qalarc.

Minimal Android app experiment — hand-built without Gradle using raw aapt/d8/zipalign toolchain

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An experimental ultra-minimal Android app built using a hand-rolled build.sh that invokes aapt, d8, zipalign, and apksigner directly — bypassing Gradle entirely for Termux compatibility. At 73 KB, it is a proof-of-concept for building Android APKs from first principles on a phone. The runtime concept (orbital visualisation) is TBD.

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73 KB APK — proof of minimal Android build
Zero Gradle — built with raw aapt/d8/zipalign/apksigner
Termux-compatible build pipeline
Demonstrates on-device Android APK compilation

Orbital

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