- 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.
- Arch (Utility)
helper for other arch dependencies, including JUnit test rules that can be used with LiveData.
- AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
- Asynclayoutinflater (UI Component)
AndroidX library to inflate layouts asynchronously to avoid jank in the UI.
- Cardview (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement the Material Design card pattern with round corners and drop shadows.
- Android Support Library collections (Utility)
standalone efficient collections.
- 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.
- AndroidX Cursor Adapter (Utility)
static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
- Android Support Library Custom View (UI Component)
a module to implement custom views. Part of the Android Support Library.
- Documentfile (UI Component)
a library to view a file document.
- Drawerlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement a Material Design drawer widget.
- Dynamicanimation (UI Component)
create smooth animations with a physics-based animation API.
- AndroidX Fragment (UI Component)
AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.
- AndroidX GridLayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement a grid layout.
- Interpolator (UI Component)
AndroidX library to use animation interpolators on older platforms.
- 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.
- Loader (Utility)
library to load data for your UI that survives configuration changes.
- AndroidX Local Broadcast Manager (Utility)
an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: any component may listen events from any other.
- Media (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
- Android Multi Dex Library (Utility)
helps deploying applications with multiple dex files on pre-Android 5 devices.
- Preference (Utility)
a library to build interactive settings screens without needing to interact with device storage or manage the UI.
- Print (Utility)
a library to print photos, docs, and other graphics and images.
- 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.
- Slidingpanelayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement a sliding pane UI pattern.
- Swiperefreshlayout (UI Component)
implemtation of the swipe-to-refresh UI pattern.
- Tracing (Utility)
AndroidX library to write trace events to the system trace buffer.
- Transition (UI Component)
animates motion in the UI with starting and ending layouts.
- Vectordrawable (UI Component)
AndroidX library to render vector graphics.
- 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.
- Connect IQ SDKⒹ (Development Framework)
SDK to build unique wearable experiences leveraging Garmin device sensors and features.
- PebbleKit Android (Utility)
interact with Pebble smartwatches.
- MPAndroidChart (Utility)
Android chart view / graph view library, supporting line- bar- pie- radar- bubble- and candlestick charts as well as scaling, dragging and animations.
- Android Wear APIsⒹ (Development Framework)
Google Mobile Services API for Android Wear contains interfaces and classes to communicate with Android Wear devices.
- Google Mobile ServicesⒹ (Development Framework)
Google Mobile Services in terms of the Android library refers to
Google Play Services, a proprietary background service and API package for Android devices which is
not part of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The library does not contain those services (i.e. it usually requires the Google Framework, often referred to as „GApps“, being installed on the device), but allows an app to communicate with them. Be aware this usually goes along with transferring at least parts of your personal data to the Google network.
- Google Material Design (Utility)
library to help with material design guidelines.
- Google Core Libraries for Java 6+ (Utility)
a set of core libraries that includes new collection types (such as multimap and multiset), immutable collections, a graph library, functional types, an in-memory cache, and APIs/utilities for concurrency, I/O, hashing, primitives, reflection, string processing, and much more.
- Error Prone (Utility)
a static analysis tool for Java that catches common programming mistakes at compile-time.
- J2ObjC (Utility)
Java to Objective-C Translator and Runtime.
- Samsung Accessory ServiceⒹ (Utility)
provides a stable environment in which you can use a variety features by connecting accessories to your mobile device.
- Samsung Accessory SDKⒹ (Utility)
connect accessory devices to Samsung smart devices.
- OkHttp (Utility)
OkHttp is an HTTP+HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
- JavaX Annotation API (Utility)
common annotations for the JavaTM Platform API.
- Kotlin (Utility)
The Kotlin Programming Language
- kotlinx.coroutines (Utility)
library support for Kotlin coroutines.
- CircleIndicator (UI Component)
lightweight viewpager indicator like in nexus 5 launcher.
- OkHttp okio Framework (Utility)
A modern I/O API for Java to make it much easier to access, store, and process your data.
- Checker Framework (Utility)
pluggable type-checking to detect and prevent errors in their Java programs.
- IntelliJ IDEA (Utility)
- android-multitouch-controller (Utility)
helper to write multitouch applications for Android.
- NanoHTTPD (Utility)
Tiny, easily embeddable HTTP server in Java.
- OpenStreetMap-Tools for Android (Map)
replacement for Android's MapView (v1 API) class.
- PermissionsDispatcher (Utility)
simple annotation-based API to handle runtime permissions.
- Timber (Utility)
logger with a small, extensible API which provides utility on top of Android's normal Log class.