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Open source Android libraries are freely available for distribution and modification under an open source license. This category contains a big variation in functionality, ranging from image loading, progress bars and sliding panels to full-fledged solutions for APIs.
This overview of open source Android SDKs provides you with the most-used and well-known libraries used in many different apps, including SDKs like Glide, ReactiveX, React Native and Kotlin.
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A collection of libraries that help you design robust, testable, and maintainable apps.
68.18% of apps
50.81% of installs
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across proc…
68.18% of apps
50.81% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
59.09% of apps
49.99% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
59.09% of apps
49.99% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's Loader.
59.09% of apps
49.99% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
59.09% of apps
49.99% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
59.09% of apps
49.99% of installs
This library adds support for the Action Bar user interface design pattern. This library includes s…
54.55% of apps
49.95% of installs
Standalone efficient collections.
54.55% of apps
49.95% of installs
Android includes the transitions framework, which enables you to easily animate changes between two…
54.55% of apps
49.95% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
50.00% of apps
49.91% of installs
LocalBroadcastManager is an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: a…
45.45% of apps
49.81% of installs
Representation of a document backed by either a DocumentsProvider or a raw file on disk. This is a …
45.45% of apps
49.78% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
40.91% of apps
49.77% of installs
A helper library for printing bitmaps.
40.91% of apps
49.77% of installs
Kotlin is a JVM based programming language and an officially supported Android language since Googl…
45.45% of apps
49.44% of installs
Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It …
31.82% of apps
46.07% of installs
The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) serves as a simple facade or abstraction for various …
18.18% of apps
45.09% of installs
With WorkManager, you can easily set up a task and hand it off to the system to run under the condi…
27.27% of apps
41.20% of installs
The Checker Framework enhances Java's type system to make it more powerful and useful. This lets so…
9.09% of apps
40.98% of installs
Okio is a library that complements java.io and java.nio to make it easier to access, store, and pro…
40.91% of apps
9.76% of installs
The Android Jetpack Media library contains classes that are helpful for building apps that play aud…
45.45% of apps
9.68% of installs
Helper class for inflating layouts asynchronously.
27.27% of apps
8.78% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
27.27% of apps
8.78% of installs
This is a class for reading and writing Exif tags in various image file formats.
18.18% of apps
8.64% of installs
Picasso allows for hassle-free image loading in your application by handling ImageView recycling an…
18.18% of apps
5.04% of installs
ViewPager2 replaces ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to…
31.82% of apps
4.73% of installs
Android optimized event bus that simplifies communication between Activities, Fragments, Threads, S…
22.73% of apps
4.72% of installs
An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling.
22.73% of apps
4.72% of installs
Reactive Streams is an initiative to provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non…
18.18% of apps
4.67% of installs
ReactiveX provides an API for asynchronous programming with observable streams. This API is availab…
18.18% of apps
4.67% of installs
jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for ext…
13.64% of apps
4.54% of installs
Powerful (Zoom, Rotation, Multi-Source), customizable (Shape, Limits, Style), optimized (Async, Sam…
13.64% of apps
4.52% of installs
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way …
9.09% of apps
4.50% of installs
Material Design ProgressBar with consistent appearance on Android 4.0+.
9.09% of apps
4.50% of installs
Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier.
13.64% of apps
4.26% of installs
Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Googl…
9.09% of apps
4.22% of installs
The bullet proof, fast and easy to use adapter library, which minimizes developing time to a fracti…
4.55% of apps
4.09% of installs
A library that allows use of Material designed dialogs down to API 8.
4.55% of apps
4.09% of installs
ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing …
18.18% of apps
0.71% of installs
Views and Drawable for displaying animated GIFs on Android.
9.09% of apps
0.54% of installs
Android-Job is an utility library for Android to run jobs delayed in the background.
9.09% of apps
0.45% of installs
Implementation of ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures.
9.09% of apps
0.45% of installs
ImageViewTouch is an android ImageView widget with zoom and pan capabilities.
4.55% of apps
0.41% of installs
Ionic is an open-source SDK for hybrid mobile app development using Web technologies.
4.55% of apps
0.41% of installs
Matisse is a well-designed local image and video selector for Android.
4.55% of apps
0.41% of installs
OkHttp is an efficient HTTP client providing features such as SPDY, connection pooling, transparent…
4.55% of apps
0.41% of installs
ShortcutBadger makes your Android App show the count of unread messages as a badge on your App shor…
4.55% of apps
0.41% of installs
This open-source Java library allows you to integrate Facebook into your Android application.
9.09% of apps
0.17% of installs
Apache Commons Codec (TM) software provides implementations of common encoders and decoders such as…
9.09% of apps
0.14% of installs
The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.
4.55% of apps
0.13% of installs
Butter Knife provides field and method binding for Android views.
4.55% of apps
0.13% of installs
uCrop is an Android library that allows you to rotate and crop images for further use.
4.55% of apps
0.13% of installs
Volley is an HTTP library that makes networking for Android apps easier and faster.
9.09% of apps
0.05% of installs
ACRA is a library enabling Android apps to automatically post their crash reports to a report serve…
4.55% of apps
0.04% of installs
Commons IO is a library of utilities to assist with developing IO functionality.
4.55% of apps
0.04% of installs
Universal Image Loader for Android provides a reusable instrument for asynchronous image loading, c…
4.55% of apps
0.04% of installs
The Joda project is a group of Java open-source projects that seeks to improve core Java functional…
4.55% of apps
0.04% of installs
NewQuickAction(3D) is a small android library to create QuickAction dialog (with Gallery3D app styl…
4.55% of apps
0.04% of installs
This MultiTouch Controller class makes it much easier to write multitouch applications for Android.
4.55% of apps
0.04% of installs
React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript, letting you compose a mobile UI from…
4.55% of apps
0.04% of installs
RootBeer is a library that uses a series of detection mechanisms to detect if an application is run…
4.55% of apps
0.04% of installs
SlidingMenu is an open-source Android library that allows developers to easily create applications …
4.55% of apps
0.04% of installs
This is a logger with a small, extensible API which provides utility on top of Android's normal Log…
4.55% of apps
0.04% of installs
Paging indicator widgets compatible with the ViewPager from the Android Support Library and ActionB…
4.55% of apps
0.04% of installs