🐸 Android useful libraries 📱

Network & Data

• OkHTTP : is an HTTP client

• Fast Android Network : A Complete Fast Android Networking Library that also supports HTTP/2

• GSON : A Java serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back

• RETROFIT : Retrofit turns your REST API into a Java interface.

• RSS-Parser : An Android library to parse a RSS Feed

• Chuck : Library that helps intercept and persist all HTTP requests and responses inside your application. (Android Wireshark alternative)

InApp Communication

• EVENTBUS : EventBus is a library that simplifies communication between different parts of your application.

Database

• ACTIVEANDROID : ActiveAndroid is an ORM for Android.

• REALM : Realm Database is an alternative to SQLite and Core Data.

Design/Components

• Universal Image Loader : UIL is a library which provides asynchronous, out of the box loading and caching of images. Although Picasso has a nicer API, it lacks in customization.

• PICASSO : Retrieving remote images and displaying them in an ImageView

• ViewPagerIndicator : Paging indicator widgets compatible with the ViewPager from the Android Support Library and ActionBarSherlock.

• AndroidSlidingUpPanel : Simple way to add a draggable sliding up panel

• AndroidShapeImageView : Custom shaped android imageview components

• Blurry : Easy blur library for Android

• SquareCamera : module that takes a square photo using the native Android Camera APIs (v1)

• ButterKnife : Field and method binding for Android views

• BarCodeScanner : Android library projects that provides easy to use and extensible Barcode Scanner views based on ZXing and ZBar.

• Android-Image-Cropper : Image Cropping Library for Android, optimized for Camera / Gallery.

• LoopingViewPager : A ViewPager and PagerAdapter combination that support auto scroll, infinite loop and page indicators. (Not a lot of stars but really functionnal)

• PageIndicatorView : An page indicator for Android ViewPager. (Works with LoopingViewPager)

• RecyclerViewHeaders : EZ recycler view with custom layout sticky header

• FadingActionBar : Android library implementing a fading effect for the action bar, similar to the one found in the Play Music app

• FlexboxLayout : FlexboxLayout for Android

• EndlessScrolling : Endless Scrolling with AdapterViews and RecyclerView

Animation

• Lottie : Render After Effects animations natively on Android and iOS, Web, and React Native. See : http://airbnb.io/lottie/

Sources :

• https://infinum.co/the-capsized-eight/top-5-android-libraries-every-android-developer-should-know-about
• https://www.credera.com/blog/credera-site/android-libraries-you-should-know/
• https://medium.freecodecamp.org/25-new-android-libraries-which-you-definitely-want-to-try-at-the-beginning-of-2017-45878d5408c0
• https://www.libtastic.com/