- 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.
- Autofill (Utility)
improve autofill accuracy via extending hints.
- 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.
- Jetpack Compose (Development Framework)
a framework to define UIs programmatically with composable functions that describe its shape and data dependencies.
- Concurrent (Utility)
AndroidX library to help move tasks off the main thread with coroutines and take advantage of ListenableFuture.
- 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.
- Databinding (Utility)
bind UI components in your layouts to data sources in your app using a declarative format.
- 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.
- 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 Inspection (Utility)
- 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.
- AndroidX Media (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
- Navigation (Utility)
a framework for navigating between 'destinations' within an Android application that provides a consistent API whether destinations are implemented as Fragments, Activities, or other components.
- 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.
- ProfileInstaller (Utility)
AndroidX library that enables libraries to prepopulate ahead of time compilation traces to be read by ART.
- ResourceInspection (Development Aid)
AndroidX library to surface the attributes of custom views in Android Studio’s Live Layout Inspector.
- 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.
- Startup (Utility)
AndroidX library to implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.
- 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.
- Jetpack WindowManager Library (Utility)
enables application developers to support new device form factors and multi-window environments. The library provides a common API surface for API versions 14 and later. Especially provides additional functionality on foldable devices.
- Donut (Development Aid)
Doughnut-like graph view capable of displaying multiple datasets with assignable colors.
- PNGJ (Utility)
Pure Java library for efficient decoding/encoding of PNG images.
- Code scanner (Utility)
Code scanner library based on ZXing.
- network-survey-messaging (Utility)
defines the messages that are sent from the Network Survey Android App.
- MQTT Connection Library (Utility)
provides a simple connection UI as well as logic to perform an MQTT connection in an Android app.
- FasterXML Jackson (Utility)
a fast and compliant streaming JSON parser/writer with a StAX-like API and support for marshalling/unmarshalling POJOs via annotations.
- Accompanist (Utility)
a collection of extension libraries for Jetpack Compose.
- FlexboxLayout (Utility)
- 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.
- Google Gson (Utility)
A Java serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back.
- J2ObjC (Utility)
Java to Objective-C Translator and Runtime.
- Google Protocol Buffers (Utility)
library that deals with Protocol Buffers (a.k.a., protobuf) – Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.
- ZXing ('Zebra Crossing') (Utility)
ZXing („zebra crossing“) is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library.
- HiveMQ MQTT Client (Utility)
an MQTT 5.0 and 3.1.1 compatible and feature-rich high-performance Java client library with different API flavours and backpressure support.
- ormlite (Utility)
- Vico (Utility)
a light and extensible chart library.
- Dagger (Utility)
A fast dependency injector for Android and Java.
- gRPC-Java (Utility)
RPC library and framework.
- Netty Project (Development Framework)
an event-driven asynchronous network application framework.
- PerfMark (Utility)
a low-overhead, manually-instrumented, tracing library.
- RxJava (Utility)
RxJava (Reactive Extensions for the JVM) is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM.
- JavaX Annotation API (Utility)
common annotations for the JavaTM Platform API.
- JavaX Dependency Injection (Utility)
specifies a means for obtaining objects in such a way as to maximize reusability, testability and maintainability compared to traditional approaches such as constructors, factories, and service locators (e.g., JNDI). This process, known as dependency injection, is beneficial to most nontrivial applications.
- Kotlin (Utility)
The Kotlin Programming Language
- Kotlin Android Extensions Runtime (Utility)
allows to obtain the same experience as with some of these libraries, without having to add any extra code or shipping any additional runtime.
- kotlinx.coroutines (Utility)
library support for Kotlin coroutines.
- Project Lombok (Utility)
makes java a spicier language by adding 'handlers' that know how to build and compile simple, boilerplate-free, not-quite-java code.
- Color Java (Development Aid)
a Java library providing color representation with support for hex, RBG, arithmetic RBG, HSL, and integer colors.
- Coordinate Reference Systems Java (Development Aid)
a Java library implementation of OGC's 'Geographic information.
- GeoPackage Java (Utility)
provides the ability to read, create, and edit GeoPackage files.
- OGC API Features JSON Lib (Utility)
a Java library for writing and reading OGC API - Features to and from JSON.
- Projections Java (Utility)
a Java library for performing projection conversions between coordinates.
- Simple Features Java (Utility)
a Java library of geometry objects and utilities based upon the OGC Simple Feature Access standard.
- TIFF Java (Utility)
a Java library for reading and writing Tagged Image File Format files.
- OkHttp okio Framework (Utility)
A modern I/O API for Java to make it much easier to access, store, and process your data.
- Apache Commons (Development Framework)
an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java components.
- Checker Framework (Utility)
pluggable type-checking to detect and prevent errors in their Java programs.
- MojoHaus AnimalSniffer Maven Plugin (Utility)
build signatures of APIs and to check your classes against previously generated signatures.
- IntelliJ IDEA (Utility)
- JCTools (Utility)
Java Concurrency Tools for the JVM. This project aims to offer some concurrent data structures currently missing from the JDK.
- Proj4J (Utility)
a Java library for converting coordinates between different geospatial coordinate reference systems.
- Reactive Streams (Utility)
provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking back pressure.
- SQLite JDBC Driver (Utility)
library for accessing SQLite databases through the JDBC API.
- Timber (Utility)
logger with a small, extensible API which provides utility on top of Android's normal Log class.
- RoundedProgressBar (UI Component)
a customizable, animated progress bar that features rounded corners.
