- Android Support v4 (Development Framework)
The Android Support Library is not actually a single library, but rather a collection of libraries that can roughly be divided into two groups: compatibility and component libraries. For details, please see
Understanding the Android Support Library.
- AndroidX Activity (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
- Android Jetpack Annotations (Utility)
library that contains the annotations for Android Jetpack.
- AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
- Constraint Layout Library (Utility)
library to reduce the number of nested views needed.
- Coordinatorlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to position top-level application widgets, such as AppBarLayout and FloatingActionButton.
- Androidx Core (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
- Android Emoji2 Compat (UI Component)
core library to enable emoji compatibility in Kitkat and newer devices to avoid the empty emoji characters.
- AndroidX Fragment (UI Component)
AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.
- androidx.legacy (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
- Lifecycle (Utility)
perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.
- AndroidX Media (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
- Preference (Utility)
a library to build interactive settings screens without needing to interact with device storage or manage the UI.
- ProfileInstaller (Utility)
AndroidX library that enables libraries to prepopulate ahead of time compilation traces to be read by ART.
- Room (Utility)
a persistence library that provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.
- Recyclerview (Utility)
display large sets of data in your UI while minimizing memory usage.
- Android Activity Saved State (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
- ShareTarget (UI Component)
AndroidX library to provide backwards compatibility for using shortcuts as direct share targets.
- Startup (Utility)
AndroidX library to implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.
- Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable (Utility)
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across processes or persisted safely.
- Viewpager (UI Component)
AndroidX library to display Views or Fragments in a swipeable format.
- AndroidX Widget ViewPager2 (UI Component)
replaces AndroidX ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to-left layout support, vertical orientation, modifiable Fragment collections, etc.
- WorkManager (Utility)
an API that makes it easy to schedule deferrable, asynchronous tasks that must be run reliably .
- Glide (Utility)
An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling
- svg android (Utility)
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) library for Android.
- Sticky Header Grid Layout Manager (UI Component)
- Subsampling Scale Image View (UI Component)
view with pan and zoom gestures for displaying huge images without loss of detail.
- APNG4Android (Utility)
Android animation support for APNG & Animated WebP & Gif,High performance
- ExoPlayer (Utility)
an extensible media player library for Android
- Google Material Design (Utility)
library to help with material design guidelines.
- Google Gson (Utility)
A Java serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back.
- mp4parser (Utility)
outdated API to read, write and create MP4 container.
- ZXing Android Embedded (Utility)
Barcode scanning library for Android, using ZXing for decoding.
- Material-ish Progress (UI Component)
a material style progress wheel compatible with Android 2.3+.
- android-crop (Utility)
library for cropping images.
- ShortcutBadger (UI Component)
library supporting badge notification like iOS in Samsung, LG, Sony and HTC launchers.
- Webkit Boundary Interfaces (Utility)
Chromium WebView helpers
- Signal Android (Utility)
a messaging app for simple private communication with friends.
- PhotoView (UI Component)
ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures.
