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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.
71.43% of apps
81.48% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
66.67% of apps
81.00% of installs
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across proc…
66.67% of apps
81.00% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
61.90% of apps
81.00% of installs
This library adds support for the Action Bar user interface design pattern. This library includes s…
57.14% of apps
80.52% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's Loader.
52.38% of apps
80.51% of installs
Android includes the transitions framework, which enables you to easily animate changes between two…
47.62% of apps
79.56% of installs
The Android Jetpack Media library contains classes that are helpful for building apps that play aud…
42.86% of apps
64.39% of installs
Standalone efficient collections.
38.10% of apps
64.38% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
38.10% of apps
64.38% of installs
LocalBroadcastManager is an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: a…
33.33% of apps
64.23% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
33.33% of apps
63.90% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
33.33% of apps
63.90% of installs
A helper library for printing bitmaps.
33.33% of apps
63.77% of installs
Helper class for inflating layouts asynchronously.
28.57% of apps
63.75% of installs
Representation of a document backed by either a DocumentsProvider or a raw file on disk. This is a …
28.57% of apps
63.75% of installs
This open-source Java library allows you to integrate Facebook into your Android application.
14.29% of apps
63.60% of installs
ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing …
14.29% of apps
63.60% of installs
Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier.
9.52% of apps
48.43% of installs
Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Googl…
9.52% of apps
48.43% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
52.38% of apps
32.57% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
52.38% of apps
32.57% of installs
Kotlin is a JVM based programming language and an officially supported Android language since Googl…
42.86% of apps
32.55% of installs
Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It …
33.33% of apps
31.92% of installs
ViewPager2 replaces ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to…
23.81% of apps
16.29% of installs
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way …
19.05% of apps
16.28% of installs
With WorkManager, you can easily set up a task and hand it off to the system to run under the condi…
23.81% of apps
16.14% of installs
Okio is a library that complements java.io and java.nio to make it easier to access, store, and pro…
19.05% of apps
15.80% of installs
The Checker Framework enhances Java's type system to make it more powerful and useful. This lets so…
4.76% of apps
15.16% of installs
Picasso allows for hassle-free image loading in your application by handling ImageView recycling an…
4.76% of apps
15.16% of installs
This module provides support for MIME multipart encoded entities.
4.76% of apps
1.52% of installs
JCIFS is an open-source client library that implements the CIFS/SMB networking protocol in 100% Jav…
4.76% of apps
1.52% of installs
JSON.simple is a simple Java toolkit for JSON. You can use JSON.simple to encode or decode JSON tex…
4.76% of apps
1.52% of installs
This is a class for reading and writing Exif tags in various image file formats.
19.05% of apps
1.26% of installs
An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling.
19.05% of apps
1.13% of installs
ReactiveX provides an API for asynchronous programming with observable streams. This API is availab…
14.29% of apps
0.63% of installs
Ionic is an open-source SDK for hybrid mobile app development using Web technologies.
9.52% of apps
0.63% of installs
Lottie is a mobile library that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json and renders …
9.52% of apps
0.63% of installs
A library that allows use of Material designed dialogs down to API 8.
9.52% of apps
0.49% of installs
jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for ext…
9.52% of apps
0.48% of installs
A simple, straight-forward implementation of the Android In-app billing API.
4.76% of apps
0.48% of installs
Apache Commons Codec (TM) software provides implementations of common encoders and decoders such as…
4.76% of apps
0.48% of installs
Butter Knife provides field and method binding for Android views.
4.76% of apps
0.48% of installs
RootBeer is a library that uses a series of detection mechanisms to detect if an application is run…
4.76% of apps
0.48% of installs
uCrop is an Android library that allows you to rotate and crop images for further use.
4.76% of apps
0.48% of installs
Volley is an HTTP library that makes networking for Android apps easier and faster.
4.76% of apps
0.48% of installs
Reactive Streams is an initiative to provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non…
9.52% of apps
0.15% of installs
Commons IO is a library of utilities to assist with developing IO functionality.
4.76% of apps
0.15% of installs
card.io provides fast, easy credit card scanning in mobile apps
4.76% of apps
0.15% of installs
ShortcutBadger makes your Android App show the count of unread messages as a badge on your App shor…
4.76% of apps
0.15% of installs
This is a logger with a small, extensible API which provides utility on top of Android's normal Log…
4.76% of apps
0.15% of installs
A TextView that automatically resizes text to fit perfectly within its bounds.
4.76% of apps
0.02% of installs
Material Design ProgressBar with consistent appearance on Android 4.0+.
4.76% of apps
0.02% of installs
Implementation of ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures.
4.76% of apps
0.02% of installs
ACRA is a library enabling Android apps to automatically post their crash reports to a report serve…
4.76% of apps
0.00% of installs
Views and Drawable for displaying animated GIFs on Android.
4.76% of apps
0.00% of installs
Universal Image Loader for Android provides a reusable instrument for asynchronous image loading, c…
4.76% of apps
0.00% of installs