- 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.
- Biometric (Utility)
authenticate with biometrics or device credentials, and perform cryptographic operations.
- Browser (Utility)
display webpages in the user's default browser.
- AndroidX Car App (Utility)
to build navigation, parking, and charging apps for Android Auto.
- 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.
- 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.
- Documentfile (UI Component)
a library to view a file document.
- Drawerlayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement a Material Design drawer widget.
- Android Emoji2 Compat (UI Component)
core library to enable emoji compatibility in Kitkat and newer devices to avoid the empty emoji characters.
- Exifinterface (Utility)
a library to read and write image file EXIF tags.
- AndroidX Fragment (UI Component)
AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.
- Interpolator (UI Component)
AndroidX library to use animation interpolators on older platforms.
- 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.
- Paging (UI Component)
AndroidX library to make it easier to load data gradually and gracefully within an app's RecyclerView.
- 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.
- Sqlite (Utility)
library that contains abstract interfaces along with basic implementations which can be used to build your own libraries that access SQLite.
- 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.
- Webkit (Utility)
a static library to use android.webkit APIs that are not available for older platform versions.
- 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.
- WorkManager (Utility)
an API that makes it easy to schedule deferrable, asynchronous tasks that must be run reliably .
- biweekly (Utility)
an iCalendar library written in Java.
- Certificate transparency for Android and JVM (Utility)
helps dealing with certificate transparency.
- Bugsnag exception reporter for AndroidⓉ (Utility)
library that automatically detects crashes in apps, collects diagnostic information and immediately notifies the development team.
- EvalEx - Java Expression Evaluator (Utility)
a handy expression evaluator for Java, that allows to parse and evaluate expression strings.
- Color Picker (UI Component)
color picker with color wheel and lightness bar.
- 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.
- ZXing ('Zebra Crossing') (Utility)
ZXing („zebra crossing“) is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library.
- OkHttp (Utility)
OkHttp is an HTTP+HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
- CSS Parser (Utility)
a package of Java classes that inputs Cascading Style Sheets source text and outputs a Document Object Model Level 2 Style tree.
- JavaBeans(TM) Activation Framework (Development Framework)
services to determine the type of an arbitrary piece of data, encapsulate access to it, discover the operations available on it, and to instantiate the appropriate bean to perform said operation(s).
- Sun Mail (Utility)
part of the JavaMail™ API provides classes that model a mail system.
- flexmark-java (Utility)
CommonMark/Markdown Java parser with source level AST. CommonMark 0.28, emulation of: pegdown, kramdown, markdown.pl, MultiMarkdown.
- ez-vcard (Utility)
- IPAddress (Utility)
library for handling IP addresses and subnets, both IPv4 and IPv6.
- Markwon (Utility)
Markdown library.
- JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF) (Utility)
a standard extension to the Java platform that lets a developer take advantage of standard services to: determine the type of an arbitrary piece of data; encapsulate access to it; discover the operations available on it; and instantiate the appropriate bean to perform the operation(s).
- JavaX Annotation API (Utility)
common annotations for the JavaTM Platform API.
- JavaMail API (Utility)
provides a platform-independent and protocol-independent framework to build mail and messaging applications.
- Kotlin (Utility)
The Kotlin Programming Language
- overscroll-decor (UI Component)
iOS-like over-scrolling effect applicable over almost all scrollable Android views.
- ShortcutBadger (UI Component)
library supporting badge notification like iOS in Samsung, LG, Sony and HTC launchers.
- JCharset (Utility)
implementation of character sets that were missing from the standard Java platform.
- AppAuth for Android (Utility)
client SDK for communicating with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect providers.
- Apache Commons (Development Framework)
an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java components.
- Apache POI (Utility)
Java API for Microsoft Documents
- Bouncy Castle (Utility)
a collection of APIs used in cryptography. Also see
Wikipedia.
- Webkit Boundary Interfaces (Utility)
Chromium WebView helpers
- commonmark-java (Utility)
Java implementation of CommonMark, a specification of the
Markdown format.
- jsoup (Utility)
a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides an API for extracting and manipulating data, using the best of DOM, CSS, and jquery-like methods.
- MiniDNS (Utility)
DNSSEC enabled DNS library
- OpenPGP API library (Utility)
an API that provides methods to execute OpenPGP operations, such as sign, encrypt, decrypt, verify, and more without user interaction from background threads.
- Simple Logging Facade for Java (Utility)
abstraction for various logging frameworks (e.g. java.util.logging, logback, log4j) allowing to plug in the desired logging framework at deployment time.
- tinylog 2 (Utility)
a lightweight logging framework for Java, Kotlin, Scala, and Android.
- Simple API for CSS (Utility)
a standard interface for CSS parser and supposed to work with CSS1, CSS2, CSS3 (currently under development) and other CSS derived languages.
- org.w3c.dom (Utility)