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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.
86.05% of apps
98.85% of installs
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across proc…
86.05% of apps
98.85% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
83.72% of apps
98.85% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
81.40% of apps
98.85% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
72.09% of apps
98.24% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
69.77% of apps
98.24% of installs
Android includes the transitions framework, which enables you to easily animate changes between two…
67.44% of apps
97.89% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
48.84% of apps
97.68% of installs
This library adds support for the Action Bar user interface design pattern. This library includes s…
62.79% of apps
97.45% of installs
The Android Jetpack Media library contains classes that are helpful for building apps that play aud…
37.21% of apps
97.33% of installs
ViewPager2 replaces ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to…
34.88% of apps
96.64% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's Loader.
62.79% of apps
3.29% of installs
Standalone efficient collections.
58.14% of apps
3.29% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
58.14% of apps
3.28% of installs
Kotlin is a JVM based programming language and an officially supported Android language since Googl…
62.79% of apps
2.89% of installs
With WorkManager, you can easily set up a task and hand it off to the system to run under the condi…
44.19% of apps
2.46% of installs
Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It …
41.86% of apps
2.44% of installs
LocalBroadcastManager is an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: a…
58.14% of apps
2.34% of installs
A helper library for printing bitmaps.
58.14% of apps
2.32% of installs
Representation of a document backed by either a DocumentsProvider or a raw file on disk. This is a …
53.49% of apps
2.32% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
51.16% of apps
2.24% of installs
Helper class for inflating layouts asynchronously.
44.19% of apps
2.22% of installs
This open-source Java library allows you to integrate Facebook into your Android application.
20.93% of apps
1.68% of installs
ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing …
20.93% of apps
1.68% of installs
Okio is a library that complements java.io and java.nio to make it easier to access, store, and pro…
27.91% of apps
1.41% of installs
This is a class for reading and writing Exif tags in various image file formats.
27.91% of apps
1.40% of installs
The Checker Framework enhances Java's type system to make it more powerful and useful. This lets so…
18.60% of apps
1.39% of installs
An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling.
20.93% of apps
0.98% of installs
ReactiveX provides an API for asynchronous programming with observable streams. This API is availab…
11.63% of apps
0.96% of installs
Lottie is a mobile library that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json and renders …
9.30% of apps
0.96% of installs
Commons IO is a library of utilities to assist with developing IO functionality.
9.30% of apps
0.96% of installs
Reactive Streams is an initiative to provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non…
6.98% of apps
0.96% of installs
A library that allows use of Material designed dialogs down to API 8.
6.98% of apps
0.95% of installs
A Kotlin library which helps to request runtime permissions in Android. It has several extensions a…
2.33% of apps
0.95% of installs
PermissionsDispatcher provides a simple annotation-based API to handle runtime permissions in Andro…
2.33% of apps
0.95% of installs
This is a logger with a small, extensible API which provides utility on top of Android's normal Log…
2.33% of apps
0.95% of installs
Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier.
16.28% of apps
0.72% of installs
Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Googl…
11.63% of apps
0.64% of installs
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way …
18.60% of apps
0.35% of installs
Picasso allows for hassle-free image loading in your application by handling ImageView recycling an…
9.30% of apps
0.33% of installs
Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. JavaN…
2.33% of apps
0.30% of installs
Views and Drawable for displaying animated GIFs on Android.
6.98% of apps
0.01% of installs
Android optimized event bus that simplifies communication between Activities, Fragments, Threads, S…
2.33% of apps
0.01% of installs
juniversalchardet is a Java port of 'universalchardet', that is the encoding detector library of Mo…
2.33% of apps
0.01% of installs
jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for ext…
9.30% of apps
0.00% of installs
uCrop is an Android library that allows you to rotate and crop images for further use.
4.65% of apps
0.00% of installs
Apache Commons Codec (TM) software provides implementations of common encoders and decoders such as…
2.33% of apps
0.00% of installs
RootBeer is a library that uses a series of detection mechanisms to detect if an application is run…
2.33% of apps
0.00% of installs
ShortcutBadger makes your Android App show the count of unread messages as a badge on your App shor…
4.65% of apps
0.00% of installs
The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) serves as a simple facade or abstraction for various …
4.65% of apps
0.00% of installs
YouTube Player library for Android and Chromecast, stable and customizable.
2.33% of apps
0.00% of installs
Ionic is an open-source SDK for hybrid mobile app development using Web technologies.
2.33% of apps
0.00% of installs
The Joda project is a group of Java open-source projects that seeks to improve core Java functional…
2.33% of apps
0.00% of installs
React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript, letting you compose a mobile UI from…
2.33% of apps
0.00% of installs
A TextView that automatically resizes text to fit perfectly within its bounds.
4.65% of apps
0.00% of installs
Material Design ProgressBar with consistent appearance on Android 4.0+.
4.65% of apps
0.00% of installs
Implementation of ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures.
4.65% of apps
0.00% of installs
App Center is a continuous integration, delivery and learning tool for Android apps. It provides an…
2.33% of apps
0.00% of installs
ACRA is a library enabling Android apps to automatically post their crash reports to a report serve…
2.33% of apps
0.00% of installs
Universal Image Loader for Android provides a reusable instrument for asynchronous image loading, c…
2.33% of apps
0.00% of installs