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+from pythonforandroid.recipe import CppCompiledComponentsPythonRecipe
+
+
+class BitarrayRecipe(CppCompiledComponentsPythonRecipe):
+    stl_lib_name = "c++_shared"
+    version = "3.0.0"
+    url = "https://github.com/ilanschnell/bitarray/archive/refs/tags/{version}.tar.gz"
+    depends = ["setuptools"]
+
+
+recipe = BitarrayRecipe()