- 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.
- Biometric (Utility)
authenticate with biometrics or device credentials, and perform cryptographic operations.
- Browser (Utility)
display webpages in the user's default browser.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Paging (UI Component)
AndroidX library to make it easier to load data gradually and gracefully within an app's RecyclerView.
- Palette (Utility)
AndroidX library to extract representative color palettes from images.
- 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.
- ResourceInspection (Development Aid)
AndroidX library to surface the attributes of custom views in Android Studio’s Live Layout Inspector.
- 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.
- Slidingpanelayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement a sliding pane UI pattern.
- 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.
- 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.
- WorkManager (Utility)
an API that makes it easy to schedule deferrable, asynchronous tasks that must be run reliably .
- Hauler (UI Component)
library containing custom layout which enables to easily create swipe to dismiss Activity.
- Butter Knife (Utility)
binds Android views and callbacks to fields and methods.
- Lottie for Android (UI Component)
Render After Effects animations natively.
- Glide (Utility)
An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling
- Crashy (Utility)
a iny library to save crash reports to the device's storage with lots of details of what went wrong.
- Subsampling Scale Image View (UI Component)
view with pan and zoom gestures for displaying huge images without loss of detail.
- Rounded Bottom Sheet (UI Component)
a bottom sheet with rounded corners.
- Android-State (Utility)
a utility library for Android to save objects in a Bundle without any boilerplate. It uses an annotation processor to wire up all dependencies.
- BigImageViewer (Utility)
big image viewer supporting pan and zoom, with very little memory usage and full featured image loading choices.
- ExoPlayer (Utility)
an extensible media player library for Android
- 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.
- CustomizedTextView (UI Component)
simple library to change the Textview as rectangle, circle and square shapes by adding one line of code in xml file.
- Bridge (Utility)
a library for avoiding TransactionTooLargeException during state saving and restoration.
- MaterialLoadingProgressBar (UI Component)
a styled ProgressBar which looks like SwipeRefreshLayout's loading indicator.
- FlowLayout (UI Component)
a FlowLayout which allows child views flow to next row when there is no enough space.
- Egloo (Development Framework)
a simple and lightweight multiplatform framework for OpenGL ES drawing and EGL management that uses object-oriented components.
- ZoomLayout (UI Component)
2D zoom and pan behavior for View hierarchies, images, video streams, and more.
- Aspect Ratio ImageView (UI Component)
a simple imageview which scales the width or height aspect with the given ratio.
- OkHttp (Utility)
OkHttp is an HTTP+HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
- Dagger (Utility)
A fast dependency injector for Android and Java.
- Markwon (Utility)
Markdown library.
- 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.
- Glide Transformations (Utility)
- Kotlin (Utility)
The Kotlin Programming Language
- kotlinx.coroutines (Utility)
library support for Kotlin coroutines.
- BetterLinkMovementMethod (Utility)
a custom LinkMovementMethod for TextView that attempts to improve how clickable links are detected, highlighted and handled.
- AndroidFastScroll (UI Component)
Fast scroll for Android RecyclerView and more.
- Zip4j (Utility)
Java open-source library to handle Zip 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.
- commonmark-java (Utility)
Java implementation of CommonMark, a specification of the
Markdown format.
- EventBus (Utility)
Android optimized event bus that simplifies communication between Activities, Fragments, Threads, Services, etc.
- IntelliJ IDEA (Utility)
- android-gif-drawable (Utility)
Views and Drawable for displaying animated GIFs on Android.
- Droidsonroids ReLinker (Utility)
a robust native library loader for Android.
- Retrofit (Utility)
Type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java by Square, Inc.