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.

AndroidX library to implement the Material Design card pattern with round corners and drop shadows.

standalone efficient collections.

AndroidX library to help move tasks off the main thread with coroutines and take advantage of ListenableFuture.

library to reduce the number of nested views needed.

AndroidX library to position top-level application widgets, such as AppBarLayout and FloatingActionButton.

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.

bind UI components in your layouts to data sources in your app using a declarative format.

AndroidX library to implement a Material Design drawer widget.

core library to enable emoji compatibility in Kitkat and newer devices to avoid the empty emoji characters.

AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.

AndroidX library to use animation interpolators on older platforms.

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 framework for navigating between 'destinations' within an Android application that provides a consistent API whether destinations are implemented as Fragments, Activities, or other components.

a Subclass of RelativeLayout that supports percentage based dimensions and margins.

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

AndroidX library that enables libraries to prepopulate ahead of time compilation traces to be read by ART.

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

display large sets of data in your UI while minimizing memory usage.

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 implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.

implemtation of the swipe-to-refresh UI pattern.

AndroidX library to write trace events to the system trace buffer.

animates motion in the UI with starting and ending layouts.

AndroidX library to render vector graphics.

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

AndroidX library to display Views or Fragments in a swipeable format.

replaces AndroidX ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to-left layout support, vertical orientation, modifiable Fragment collections, etc.

provides methods for managing the index, by inserting, updating and removing Indexable values in the app.

Google Mobile Services API for Android Wear contains interfaces and classes to communicate with Android Wear devices.

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.

library to help with material design guidelines.

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 multi-language, cross-platform library that provides cryptographic APIs that are secure, easy to use correctly, and hard(er) to misuse.

 

A Java serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back.

a pure Java implementation of an ASN.1 encoder and decoder supporting the BER and DER encoding rules of the bytestream.

SSHv2 library for Java.

RxJava (Reactive Extensions for the JVM) is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM.

The Kotlin Programming Language

library support for Kotlin coroutines.

pure Java implementation of EdDSA (cryptography: Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm).

Android library for the Invisible Internet Project.

SSHv2 library for Java: ssh, scp and sftp.

a collection of APIs used in cryptography. Also see Wikipedia.

provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking back pressure.

abstraction for various logging frameworks (e.g. java.util.logging, logback, log4j) allowing to plug in the desired logging framework at deployment time.

abstraction for various logging frameworks (e.g. java.util.logging, logback, log4j) allowing to plug in the desired logging framework at deployment time.

abstraction for various logging frameworks (e.g. java.util.logging, logback, log4j) allowing to plug in the desired logging framework at deployment time.