- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- AndroidX Percentlayout (UI Component)
a Subclass of RelativeLayout that supports percentage based dimensions and margins.
- Preference (Utility)
a library to build interactive settings screens without needing to interact with device storage or manage the UI.
- 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.
- 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.
- Coil (Utility)
an image loading library for Android backed by Kotlin Coroutines.
- Material Dialogs (UI Component)
library to help building dialogs that meet the Material Design standards, including e.g. progress display, multiple-choice selections with check-boxes, password (and other) text input.
- PRDownloader (Utility)
a file downloader library for Android with pause and resume support.
- Android WizardPager (UI Component)
Android pager-style wizard (step-by-step guide, e.g. for configuration).
- Firebase Data TransportⓃ (Utility)
Firebase Data Transport is part of Google’s Firebase SDK.
- ExoPlayer (Utility)
an extensible media player library for Android
- Google Cloud Messaging©Ⓝ (Utility)
part of GMS dealing with cloud messaging.
- 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.
- FirebaseⓃ© (Utility)
- Firebase InstallationsⓃ (Development Aid)
Firebase Installations is a service that allows you to manage the installation of your app on a user's device. The Firebase installations service (FIS) provides a Firebase installation ID (FID) for each installed instance of a Firebase app. Used e.g. for FCM, but also for Analytics.
- Google Gson (Utility)
A Java serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back.
- DragSortListView (UI Component)
Android ListView with drag and drop reordering.
- OkHttp (Utility)
OkHttp is an HTTP+HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
- JSnappy (Utility)
- 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.
- Kotlin (Utility)
The Kotlin Programming Language
- kotlinx.coroutines (Utility)
library support for Kotlin coroutines.
- Kotlin serialization (Utility)
Kotlin cross-platform / multi-format serialization.
- FancyShowCaseView (UI Component)
easy-to-use customisable show case view with circular reveal animation.
- AndroidFastScroll (UI Component)
Fast scroll for Android RecyclerView and more.
- google-diff-match-patch (Utility)
Diff, Match and Patch library.
- OkHttp okio Framework (Utility)
A modern I/O API for Java to make it much easier to access, store, and process your data.
- yuku-android-util (Utility)
collection of multiple libraries from different developers.
- AmbilWarna Color Picker library (UI Component)
a small library to enable the users to select an arbitrary color.