Runtime Archiver is an open-source plugin for archiving and unarchiving files and directories. Currently supports Zip, Oodle, Tar, LZ4 and GZip formats.

Plugin uses TDEF low level compressor and TINFL decompressor for zip archives.
The tar archiver complies with the basic specification but does not include additional fields like Magic, Version, UName/GName, and others. It only supports files and directories.

P.S. If this looks rather confusing to you and you want something simpler, check out the async operations example.