- 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.
- AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
- Browser (Utility)
display webpages in the user's default browser.
- Android Support Library collections (Utility)
standalone efficient collections.
- 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.
- Documentfile (UI Component)
a library to view a file document.
- 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.
- 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 Media (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
- 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.
- 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.
- Startup (Utility)
AndroidX library to implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.
- Transition (UI Component)
animates motion in the UI with starting and ending layouts.
- 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.
- Lottie for Android (UI Component)
Render After Effects animations natively.
- UI Canvas (UI Component)
implement Canvas into your NativeScript apps.
- Fresco (Utility)
library for managing images and the memory they use.
- Firebase Data TransportⓃ (Utility)
Firebase Data Transport is part of Google’s Firebase SDK.
- 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.
- OmRecorder (Utility)
requires 3 permissions: android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO, android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
a simple PCM/WAV recorder with API.
- NativeScript Application Utils (Utility)
a NativeScript plugin with utils for app dev.
- NativeScript Label widget (UI Component)
a NativeScript widget based on nativescript-canvas
and allows drawing multiple labels within one single widget.
- NativeScript CollectionView (UI Component)
a NativeScript CollectionView widget. The CollectionView displays data in separate cells, each cell representing one data item. For iOS wraps up UICollectionView and for Android wraps up RecyclerView.
- @nativescript-community/gesturehandler (UI Component)
a eclarative API exposing platform native touch and gesture system to NativeScript.
- @nativescript-community/ui-document-picker (Utility)
a NativeScript plugin that allows you to select files from the device.
- @nativescript-community/https (Utility)
secure HTTP client with SSL pinning for Nativescript.
- ui-image (UI Component)
advanced and efficient image display plugin which uses Fresco (Android) and SDWebImage (iOS) to implement caching, placeholders, image effects, and much more.
- NativeScript Label widget (UI Component)
an alternative to the built-in NativeScript Label but with better performance and additional features such as HTML rendering and more.
- nativescript-community/ui-lottie (UI Component)
NativeScript plugin to expose Airbnb Lottie for awesome animations.
- ui-material-components (UI Component)
NativeScript Material Design plugins.
- ui-pager (UI Component)
- @nativescript-community/ui-popover (UI Component)
NativeScript popover plugin.
- @nativescript-community/preferences (Utility)
allows native preference saving/loading on iOS and Android.
- @nativescript-community/text (Utility)
expands the capabilities of NativeScript's text property.
- ui-webview (Utility)
extended WebView which adds many options such as custom scheme handlers, JavaScript execution, URL capturing, and more.
- InAppBrowser for React Native (Utility)
Chrome Custom Tabs for Android & SafariServices/AuthenticationServices for iOS.
- OkHttp (Utility)
OkHttp is an HTTP+HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
- React Native Gesture Handler (Utility)
declarative API exposing platform native touch and gesture system to React Native.
- Android Runtime for NativeScript (Utility)
this may be thought of as „The Bridge“ between the JavaScript and Android worlds.
- Kotlin (Utility)
The Kotlin Programming Language
- Zip4j (Utility)
Java open-source library to handle Zip files.
- NanoHTTPD (Utility)
a tiny, easily embeddable HTTP server in Java.
- NativeScript Core Modules Widgets (UI Component)
library that represents native code (Java and Objective-C) used by the NativeScript core modules.
- NativeScript (Development Framework)
framework to develop mobile apps on the Apple iOS and Android platforms.
- ASM (Utility)
an all purpose Java bytecode manipulation and analysis framework.