CommonsWare Android Components (CWAC)

The CommonsWare Android Components, or CWAC, are open source libraries to help solve various tactical problems with Android development. Most CWAC components are packaged as a tiny JAR or AAR file that you can add to your project.

The current supported CWAC components, and their GitHub repositories, are:

• cwac-document: Provides an improved version of DocumentFile for greater compatibility with more devices and types of content Uri.
• cwac-layouts: Provides some Android container classes for specialized situations.
• cwac-netsecurity: Provides a backport of the Android 7.0 network security configuration subsystem.
• cwac-presentation: Provides classes in support of the Presentation engine in Android, for driving separate content to an external display (compared to what you shown on the device’s own display)
• cwac-provider: Provides StreamProvider, an extended version of Google’s FileProvider, for making files, resources, and assets available to other apps via a ContentProvider
• cwac-security: Provides utility classes to help app developers defend their users.

And, in case you were wondering, CWAC is pronounced like “quack”.