- 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.
- AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
- CameraX (Utility)
an addition to Android Jetpack that makes it easier to add camera capabilities.
- Cardview (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement the Material Design card pattern with round corners and drop shadows.
- 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.
- Android Support Library Custom View (UI Component)
a module to implement custom views. Part of the Android Support Library.
- 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.
- 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.
- AndroidX Media3 (Utility)
share media contents and controls with other apps.
- Navigation (Utility)
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.
- Androidx Navigation Event (UI Component)
provides APIs to easily intercept platform navigation events, including swipes and clicks, to provide a consistent API surface for handling these events.
- 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.
- Slidingpanelayout (UI Component)
AndroidX library to implement a sliding pane UI pattern.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lottie for Android (UI Component)
Render After Effects animations natively.
- FFmpegKit (Utility)
FFmpeg Kit for applications. Supports Android, Flutter, iOS, macOS, React Native and tvOS.
- SmartException (Development Aid)
utilities to handle throwable objects and format stack trace elements in JVM based languages (Java, Scala, Kotlin, Groovy, etc.)
- Glide (Utility)
An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling
- AppIntro (UI Component)
library that helps build a cool carousel intro.
- Google Material Design (Utility)
library to help with material design guidelines.
- App Lock (Utility)
requires 1 permissions: android.permission.USE_FINGERPRINT
a library for locking and unlocking Activities with a PIN code or Fingerprint (e.g. a child lock).
- OkHttp (Utility)
OkHttp is an HTTP+HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
- OpenStreetMap-Tools for Android (Map)
replacement for Android's MapView (v1 API) class.