- 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.
- Autofill (Utility)
improve autofill accuracy via extending hints.
- 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.
- Jetpack Compose (Development Framework)
a framework to define UIs programmatically with composable functions that describe its shape and data dependencies.
- 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.
- Databinding (Utility)
bind UI components in your layouts to data sources in your app using a declarative format.
- DataStore (Development Aid)
stores data asynchronously, consistently, and transactionally, overcoming some of the drawbacks of SharedPreferences.
- 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 Graphics (Utility)
leverages graphics facilities across multiple Android platform releases.
- 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.
- Android Multi Dex Library (Utility)
helps deploying applications with multiple dex files on pre-Android 5 devices.
- 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.
- Paging (UI Component)
AndroidX library to make it easier to load data gradually and gracefully within an app's RecyclerView.
- Print (Utility)
a library to print photos, docs, and other graphics and images.
- ProfileInstaller (Utility)
AndroidX library that enables libraries to prepopulate ahead of time compilation traces to be read by ART.
- 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 .
- Stately (Development Aid)
a state utility library to facilitate state management in Kotlin Multiplatform.
- Coil (Utility)
an image loading library for Android backed by Kotlin Coroutines.
- Accompanist (Utility)
a collection of extension libraries for Jetpack Compose.
- DrawerOverlayService (UI Component)
- 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.
- Symbol Processing (Development Aid)
Symbol processing for Kotlin.
- 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.
- ThreeTen Android Backport (Utility)
adaptation of the
JSR-310 (Date and Time API) backport for Android.
- Rome (Utility)
a Java framework for RSS and Atom feeds.
- Moshi JSON library (Utility)
library to parse
JSON into Java objects.
- OkHttp (Utility)
OkHttp is an HTTP+HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
- Kotlin (Utility)
The Kotlin Programming Language
- Kotlin Android Extensions Runtime (Utility)
allows to obtain the same experience as with some of these libraries, without having to add any extra code or shipping any additional runtime.
- Immutable Collections Library for Kotlin (Utility)
immutable collection interfaces and implementation prototypes for Kotlin.
- kotlinx.coroutines (Utility)
library support for Kotlin coroutines.
- kotlin-parcelize (Utility)
Kotlin plugin that provides a Parcelable implementation generator.
- Kotlin serialization (Utility)
Kotlin cross-platform / multi-format serialization.
- Readability4J (Utility)
extracts a website‘s relevant content and removes all clutter from it.
- OkHttp okio Framework (Utility)
A modern I/O API for Java to make it much easier to access, store, and process your data.
- TagSoup (Utility)
- IntelliJ IDEA (Utility)
- JDOM v2 (Utility)
accessing, manipulating, and outputting XML data from Java code.
- 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.
- KOIN (Utility)
a small library to lets you write dependency injection in a concise and pragmatic way.
- 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.
- ThreeTen backport project (Utility)
Backport of functionality based on
JSR-310 (Date and Time API) to Java SE 6 and 7.
- Retrofit (Utility)
Type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java by Square, Inc.
