AnyTask: Cross-Platform Client for Anytype

A modern, lightweight client for Anytype built with Rust and Dioxus.

Anytype has a great desktop, Android and iOS clients. This project focuses on cross-platform compatibility between clients using Dioxus, a modern Rust framework.

⚠️ AnyTask is currently in active development.

Features

• Login/Logout with 4-digit code
• Views: Spaces, Queries, Objects
• Properties: Text, Checkbox, Select, Date
• Add/edit viewed properties
• Choose query views
• Timeline view

How to use

⚠️ Requirement: The current version of AnyTask requires a running official Anytype desktop client on the local network to function.

Android

To use Android app you should first install AnyTask on device with a desktop Anytype installed. Then connect to the same Private network (Wi-Fi) and enter the desktop ip in the app (example: 10.0.0.45:31010).

• Request 4-digit code
• Enter the code in the app

Windows

Developing

Dependencies

• Client API code is generated with openapi-generator
• anytype-api
• dioxus-cli

Windows, Linux

cargo install --git https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus dioxus-cli --locked

NixOS

devenv shell -v

Running

Desktop

dx serve --platform desktop

Android

• Android
  • Settings
  • Developer options
  • Wireless debugging (turn on, then hold)
  • Pair device with pairing code (ip:port, code)
• Terminal
  • Connect to device
    • adb pair ip:port - connect to device with wireless debugging
    • code - verify with code
    • adb devices - check connected devices
  • Run the app on the connected device

    dx serve --platform android --device

  • Debug
    • adb shell run-as com.Tumypmyp.AnyTask - login to Android shell
    • ls files - check app files directory

Building installer

Desktop

dx bundle --desktop

Android

dx bundle --android

or

(devenv) bundle-android-apk

Client API generation

• copy openapi-version.yaml to apis/
• build the client

  (devenv) client-api-generate

2025-11-08 Patches

• add view type enums (can return types outside the enum set)

    enum:
      - grid
      - table
      - list
      - galery
      - kanban
      - calendar
      - graph
  

• add property name mapping

    PropertyWithValue:
      discriminator:
        propertyName: format
        mapping:
          text: "#/components/schemas/TextPropertyValue"
          number: "#/components/schemas/NumberPropertyValue"
          select: "#/components/schemas/SelectPropertyValue"
          multi_select: "#/components/schemas/MultiSelectPropertyValue"
          date: "#/components/schemas/DatePropertyValue"
          files: "#/components/schemas/FilesPropertyValue"
          checkbox: "#/components/schemas/CheckboxPropertyValue"
          url: "#/components/schemas/UrlPropertyValue"
          email: "#/components/schemas/EmailPropertyValue"
          phone: "#/components/schemas/PhonePropertyValue"
          objects: "#/components/schemas/ObjectsPropertyValue"