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awesome-android

A curated list of awesome Android packages and resources.
https://github.com/eric-erki/awesome-android

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  • Emulators

  • Libraries

    • Charts

      • AChartEngine - Charting Engine.
      • WilliamChart - Chart library with good motion capabilities.
      • HelloCharts - Chart and graph library with support for scaling, scrolling and animations.
      • MPAndroidChart - An Android chart and graph library supporting scaling and dragging by gesture.
      • EazeGraph - Chart and graph library.
      • ArcChartView - Draw Creative Statistic Arc Charts.
    • Dependency Injection

      • Dagger 2 - A fast dependency injector for Android and Java.
      • Butter Knife - View "injection" library for Android.
      • ActivityStarter - Android Library that provide simpler way to start the Activities with multiple arguments.
      • AndroidAnnotations - Java annotations with dependency injection at compile time.
      • Toothpick - A scope tree based Dependency Injection (DI) library for Java.
    • Android Services

      • Remoter - An alternative to Android AIDL for Android Remote IPC services using plain java interfaces.
      • Service Connector - Bind Android services and callbacks to fields and methods.
    • Game Development

      • Libgdx - Cross-platform game engine and SDK. [Open Source](https://github.com/libGDX/libGDX)
      • Unity - Cross-platform game creation system.
      • Rajawali - Android OpenGL ES 2.0/3.0 Engine
      • JustWeEngine - An easy open source Android Native Game FrameWork.
      • Cocos2d-x - Cross-platform 2d game framework.
    • Security

      • libsignal-protocol-java - A ratcheting forward secrecy protocol that works in synchronous and asynchronous messaging environments.
      • Themis - Multi-language framework for making typical encryption schemes easy to use: data at rest, authenticated data exchange, transport protection, authentication, and so on.
    • GUI

      • Pull to refresh - A swipe refresh layout is available in the v4 support library.
      • Cardslib - Android Library to build a UI Card.
      • AndroidStaggeredGrid - Grid view which supports multiple columns with rows of varying sizes.
      • Flow - Library that helps with describing an app as a collection of moderately independent screens.
      • SortableTableView - An Android library containing a simple TableView and an advanced SortableTableView providing a lot of customisation possibilities to fit all needs.
      • AndroidFillableLoaders - Fillable progress view working with SVG paths. Nice option too for creating interesting app logos.
      • NexusDialog - Allows you to easily and quickly create forms in Android with little code.
      • Snap RecyclerView Utils - Populate Single or multiple Layout RecyclerView without creating an Adapter.
      • MultiSnapRecyclerView - Android library for multiple snapping of RecyclerView
      • SwipeableCard - Implementation of swipe card like StreetView!!
      • ElasticProgressBar - Beautiful loading bar.
      • EntryScreenManager - Intro/Entry/Walkthrough/Starting Screens.
      • EasyIntro - The flexible, easy to use, all in one app intro library for your Android project.
      • Material-Calendar-View - Material Design Calendar compatible with API 8+
      • CrunchyCalendar - A material calendar widget with infinite scrolling, date range selection and color customization.
      • SectionedRecyclerViewAdapter - An Adapter that allows a RecyclerView to be split into Sections with headers and/or footers.
      • DragListView - Drag and drop to reorder items in a list, grid or board.
      • Animated Expanding ListView - Animated Expanding ListView provides a fancy animation on expanding or collapsing the content of a listview item.
      • TastyToast - Toasts with icons and color.
      • DotLoader - A customizable loading animation with Dots.
      • PodSlider - A customizable slider widget adhering to material design specs.
      • TapTargetView - An implementation of tap targets from the Material Design guidelines for feature discovery.
      • ShowCaseView - The ShowcaseView library is designed to highlight and showcase specific parts of apps to the user with a attractive and flat overlay.
      • MaterialIntroScreen - Material Intro Screen implementation with easily extensible API.
      • FloatingView - FloatingView can make the target view floating above the anchor view with cool animation.
      • Timecon - Easy-to-use animated clock icon
      • Audiogram - Lightweight audiowave progressbar
      • Bubbles for Android - Facebook like chat bubble library
      • Litho (By Facebook) - A declarative framework for building efficient UIs on Android.
      • MultiViewAdapter - Recyclerview Adapter library to create composable view holders.
      • LGSnackbar - An easy to use and customisable wrapper of the native Android Snackbar which stays visible across multiple activities.
      • ShimmerLayout - Memory efficient shimmering effect for Android applications.
      • CircleProgressBar - A simple library for creating circular progressbars for Android.
      • Easy-Signature-Android - An simple ui library that provides a plugable signature view.
      • Flashbar - A highly customizable, powerful and easy-to-use alerting library for Android.
      • NoPaginate - Simple Android pagination library
      • FadingActionBar - Fading action bar effect that can be seen in the new Play Music app.
      • SlidingMenu - Library to create applications with slide-in menus.
      • SlidingTutorial - Simple library that helps to create awesome sliding android app tutorials.
      • PagerSlidingTabStrip - An interactive indicator to navigate between the different pages of a ViewPager.
      • Page View indicator - Support for horizontally scrolling ViewPager.
      • RecyclerTabLayout - An efficient TabLayout library implemented with RecyclerView.
      • MaterialDrawer - Simple take on a material design navigation drawer.
      • Floating-Navigation-View - A simple Floating Action Button that shows an anchored Navigation View.
      • Android View Animations - Cute view animation collection.
      • Android-Transition - Allows the easy creation of view transitions that react to user inputs.
      • Android-View-Actions - Makes creating complex animations for views easy.
      • Spotlight - Android Library that lights items for tutorials or walk-throughs etc...
      • Crescento - Explore new style in material design by adding curve below image view.
      • android-crop - Library project for cropping images.
      • CircularImageView - Custom view for circular images while maintaining the best draw performance.
      • Android-Image-Filter - Library project for applying image filters easily.
      • Compressor - Compressor is a lightweight and powerful android image compression library.
      • ShapeImageView - Library to display images in different shapes.
      • FloatingLabel - FloatingLabel Allows you to create a blow kind of EditText. *Doesn't have Gradle or Maven Support.*
      • MaterialEditText - Supporting Floating Labels, Single Line Ellipsis, Max/Min Characters, Helper Text and Error Text with Custom Colors.
      • MaterialSearchBar - Material Design Search Bar for Android
      • InputMask - Pattern-based user input formatter, parser and validator.
      • SweetPassword - Password EditText that allows to custom toggle button
      • Material Dots Indicators - Three Material Dots Indicators styles for View Pagers.
      • Picasso - A powerful image downloading and caching library for Android.
      • Universal Image Loader - Asynchronous, out of the box loading and caching of images.
      • Glide - An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling, Recommended by Google.
      • Fresco - An Android library for managing images and the memory they use.
      • Glide Bitmap Pool - Glide Bitmap Pool is a memory management library for reusing the bitmap memory.
      • MediaPicker - Android Library that lets you to select multiple images, video or voice for Android
      • ijkplayer - Android/iOS video player based on FFmpeg n3.2, with MediaCodec, VideoToolbox support.
      • Exoplayer - ExoPlayer is an application level media player for Android, allow playing audio and video both locally and over the Internet.
      • VideoPlayView - Custom Android view with video player, play/stop, loader and placeholder image.
      • MagicalCamera - Simple way to take or select photos of your gallery, with other features for manage pictures.
      • Camera - Use Android camera to take pictures and videos, based on camera2 api.
      • Convalida - A simple and annotation-based way to validate your input fields.
    • JSON

      • Gson - Gson is a Java library used for serializing and deserializing Java objects from and into JSON.
      • Jackson JSON Processor - High-performance JSON processor.
      • Moshi - A modern JSON library for Android and Java.
    • Crash monitoring

      • HockeyApp - Distribution, Crash Reports, Feedback and Analytics
      • Splunk MINT - Monitoring, Crash Reports, Real time data, Statistic.
      • Bugsnag - Cross platform error monitoring. Free tier. Support for SDK & NDK. Error reports include data on device, release, user, and allows arbitrary data.
      • Catcho - No Force Close any more.
    • Networking

      • Ion - Good networking library for android.
      • OkHttp - An HTTP+SPDY client for Android and Java applications.
      • RoboSpice - Library that makes writing asynchronous network requests easy.
      • IceNet - Fast, Simple and Easy Networking for Android
      • IceSoap - Easy, asynchronous, annotation-based SOAP for Android.
      • node-android - Run Node.js on Android.
      • HappyDns - A Dns library, user can use custom dns server, dnspod httpdns. Only support A record.
      • RESTMock - HTTP Web server for mocking API responses in Android Instrumentation tests.
      • Packetzoom - SDK for optimizing HTTP requests and free analytics service for networking.
      • Fast-Android-Networking - A Complete Fast Android Networking Library that also support HTTP/2.
    • Logger

      • logger - Simple, pretty and powerful logger for android
      • timber - A logger with a small, extensible API which provides utility on top of Android's normal Log class.
      • LoggingInterceptor - An OkHttp interceptor which pretty logs request and response data.
      • Bugfender - Upload your logs and check them online, specially made for mobile
      • EzyLogger - Simple Lightweight logger
      • Logback Android - Logback port to Android which provides a highly configurable logging framework for Android apps.
    • Notifications

    • Database

      • Cupboard - Access the sqlite easily via direct database access or through the ContentProvider framework.
      • DbInspector - Provides a simple way to view the contents of the in-app database for debugging purposes.
      • SQLite Asset Helper - manage database creation and version management using an application's raw asset files.
      • Realm - The alternative to SQLite and ORMs: Simple, modern and fast! Object oriented API and multi platform support.
      • Realm Asset Helper - Copies a realm database from the apk assets folder. Efficiently handles versioning of read-only realm databases.
      • RestorableSQLiteDatabase - A wrapper to replicate android's SQLiteDatabase with restoring capability.
      • requery - Compile time ORM and SQL query library for Java & Android.
      • Sugar ORM - Insanely easy way to work with Android Databases.
      • NexusData - Object graph and persistence framework for Android.
      • SimpleNoSQL - A simple NoSQL client for Android. Meant as a document store using key/value pairs and some rudimentary querying. Useful for avoiding the hassle of SQL code.
      • RxSimpleNoSQL - Reactive extensions for SimpleNoSQL. Manipulate entities using Observables.
    • Testing

      • Robotium - Test automation framework for black-box UI tests.
      • AssertJ Android - AssertJ assertions geared towards Android.
      • Green Coffee - Run your Cucumber tests in your Android instrumentation tests.
    • Tracking

      • MobileAppTracking - Tracking your marketing campaigns across multiple ad networks.
      • Mixpanel - Analytics platform to analyze the users.
    • Maps

      • Google-Directions-Android - Allows you to calculate the direction between two locations and display the route on a Google Map using the Google Directions API.
      • Android Maps Extensions - Extending capabilities of Google Maps Android API v2, adding marker clustering among other things
      • MapScaleView - Scale bar for Google Maps Android API
      • GLMap - Crossplatform offline vector map with MapCSS styling. Offline search and offline navigation are included.
    • Utility

      • Conceal SharedPreferences - Secured Preferences using Facebook Secure Encryption called Conceal.
      • EventBus - EventBus is a library that simplifies communication between different parts of your application.
      • Otto - Event Bus for Android.
      • Weak handler - Memory safer implementation of android.os.Handler.
      • Secure Preference Manager - Secure Preference Manager for android. It uses various Encryption to protect your application's Shared Preferences.
      • LeakCanary - Catch memory leaks as they occur.
      • Drekkar - An Android event bus for WebView and JS.
      • Androl4b - A vm for assessing android applications.
      • DroidMVP - Android library to help you incorporate MVP along with Passive View and Presentation Model patterns into your app.
      • Gota - Simplifying Android Permissions.
      • EasyDeviceInfo - Get device information in a super easy way.
      • Ask-Permission - Simple RunTime permission manager.
      • Shutter-Android - Capture photos/videos from device camera or get photos/video from gallery app with no runtime permissions needed.
      • Validator - An utilities class to validate text inside TextInputLayout.
    • Debugging Tools

      • Linx - Show logcat inside the device for debug builds
      • Scalpel - View the entire hierarchy in 3d in the phone.
      • Android Debug Database - Android Debug Database is a powerful library for debugging databases and shared preferences in Android applications.
      • Android Debug Bridge - ADB - a command-line tool to assist in debugging Android-powered devices
      • ADB Enhanced - a command-line wrapper around ADB for developers, so that, developers don't have to remember esoteric version-dependent commands
      • Pidcat - a colored command-line ADB wrapper that only shows log entries for a specific application package
    • Wireless

      • SmartGattLib - Simplifies the work with Bluetooth SMART devices (a.k.a. Bluetooth Low Energy in Bluetooth 4.0).
    • Chat & Messaging

      • Applozic Android Chat SDK - Android Chat and Messaging SDK for adding real time chat and in-app messaging into your android application.
      • Qiscus SDK - Qiscus SDK is a lightweight and powerful android chat library. Qiscus SDK will allow you to easily integrating Qiscus engine with your apps to make cool chatting application.
      • Kommunicate Live Chat SDK - Kommunicate provides open source live chat sdk in android. Kommunicate lets you add real time live chat and in-app messaging in your mobile (android, iOS) applications and website for customer support.
      • MediaRecorderDialog - Custom Dialog to record audio, store it and play it in your phone.
      • HijriDatePicker - offers a hijri (Islamic Calendar) Date Picker designed on Google's Material Design Principals For Pickers.
      • Noty - A simple library for creating animated alerts/dialogs/warnings.
    • Other

      • Sensey - Detecting gestures in a snap.
      • UserAwareVideoView - A customized video view that will automatically pause video is user is not looking at device screen!
      • Google Play Services - Library to access Google services, such as account syncing, Google+ (sharing, single sign-on), Google Maps, Location APIs, Google Play Games, Cloud Messaging, Android Device Manager, and others.
      • Tape - A lightning fast, transactional, file-based FIFO for Android and Java.
      • Guava: Google Core Libraries for Java - Collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency libraries, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and so forth.
      • Android Scripting - Allows to run scripting languages on Android.
      • Android Priority Job Queue - Implementation of a Job Queue to easily schedule jobs (tasks) that run in the background, improving UX and application stability.
      • RateMeMaybe - Asks the user if (s)he wants to open the Play Store to rate your application.
      • Easy Rating Dialog - Lib provides a simple way to display an alert dialog for rating app.
      • ZXing Android-Integration - Integration with Barcode Scanner via Intent.
      • Gradle Retrolambda Plugin - Java 8 Lambdas on Android!
      • Caffeine - A collection of utility classes that help make Android development faster.
      • AboutLibraries - Automatically generates an About this app section, with a list of used libraries.
      • AudioPlayerView - A view that loads audio from an url and have basic playback tools.
      • andle - command line tool help you sync dependencies, sdk or build tool version.
      • Typography - An Android library that makes it easy to use custom fonts in views.
      • Calligraphy - Custom fonts in Android an OK way.
      • transai - command line tool help you manage localization string files.
      • Android-Link-Preview - It makes a preview from an url, grabbing all the information such as title, relevant texts and images.
      • Agile Boiler Plate - The boiler plate is based on MVP architecture and it is fully based on Dependency Injection design pattern using Dagger2.
      • RxJava - RxJava – Reactive Extensions for the JVM – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM.
      • RxBinding - RxBinding – RxJava binding APIs for Android UI widgets from the platform and support libraries.
      • Flexbox Layout - FlexboxLayout is a library which brings the similar capabilities of CSS Flexible Box Layout Module to Android.

      • Android Support library - The Android Support Library package is a set of code libraries that provide backward-compatible versions of Android framework API.
    • Version Checking

      • AppUpdater - comprehensive and feature rich library, including support for checks at Amazon and FDroid.
      • Gandalf - comprehensive features and a "companion" iOS solution.
      • Siren - focused feature set that mimicks the popular iOS library of the same name. Supports Play and Amazon.
      • Fit - version checking callback framework with no UI.
    • Date & Time

    • Runtime Permissions

      • Permission Dispatcher - Simple annotation-based API to handle runtime permissions.
      • RxPermissions - Android runtime permissions powered by RxJava.
      • NoPermission - Simple Android library for permissions request. Consists of only one class.
    • Data binding

      • Anvil - A small library to create reactive UI components, inspired by React. Provides data binding and event listener binding, fits well for MVVM.
  • Resources

  • Development Alternatives

    • C#

      • Xamarin - Framework to create native iOS, Android, Mac and Windows apps in C#.
    • HTML, CSS and Javascript

      • Titanium - Open-source framework to create 'native' cross platform apps using JavaScript.
      • React Native - A framework for building native apps with React by Facebook.
      • Apache Cordova - Cordova based applications are, at the core, applications written with web technology: HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
      • Capacitor - Build cross-platform Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and the web. Very promising Cordova alternative.
      • PhoneGap - Open source framework by Adobe to create cross platform mobile apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
    • Lua

      • Corona SDK - Framework to create native iOS and Android Apps (especially Games).
    • Scala

      • Scaloid - Library for less painful Android development with Scala.
    • Groovy

    • Kotlin

      • Anko - DSL for Android written in Kotlin by JetBrains.
      • Kotterknife - Android view injection written in Kotlin based on ButterKnife
      • Android Kotlin Samples - Some basic Android code samples written in Kotlin.
      • KAndroid - Lightweight library providing useful extensions to eliminate boilerplate code in Android SDK.
      • RxKotlin/Pocket - This app help user to save links easily, and can export to Evernote as weekly.
      • Android Clean Architecture - Kotlin - A base project using the Uncle Bob's clean architecture with Kotlin language and the latest Android technologies.
      • Koin - Lightweight dependency injection framework for Kotlin
    • Flutter