makes it possible to do native Android, iOS and Windows development in C#, with either Visual Studio or Xamarin Studio.

an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework.

library to create apps with slide-in menus.

 

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.

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.

provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.

library that contains the annotations for Android Jetpack.

helper for other arch dependencies, including JUnit test rules that can be used with LiveData.

support newer Android features on older Android versions.

standalone efficient collections.

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.

static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.

a module to implement custom views. Part of the Android Support Library.

 

perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.

library to load data for your UI that survives configuration changes.

a library to build interactive settings screens without needing to interact with device storage or manage the UI.

a persistence library that provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.

provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.

library that contains abstract interfaces along with basic implementations which can be used to build your own libraries that access SQLite.

AndroidX library to render vector graphics.

Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across processes or persisted safely.

an API that makes it easy to schedule deferrable, asynchronous tasks that must be run reliably .

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.

a binding of the Java Native Interface for use from managed languages such as C#, and an associated set of code generators to allow Java code to invoke managed code.

a binding of the Java Native Interface for use from managed languages such as C#, and an associated set of code generators to allow Java code to invoke managed code.

automatically captures session count, device properties like model, OS version, etc.

automatically generates a crash log every time your app crashes. The log is first written to the device's storage and when the user starts the app again, the crash log will be sent to App Center.