25 Best Android Libraries, Projects, and Tools You Won’t Want to Miss Out in 2021

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

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  • Expenso

    📊 A Minimal Expense Tracker App built to demonstrate the use of modern android architecture component with MVVM Architecture

  • 1. Expenso

  • material-components-android

    Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for Android

  • Android Architecture Components, especially: Stateflow, Flow, ViewModel , Room, Jetpack Navigation, DataStore, and Material Components for Android

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  • TimeRangePicker

    A customizable, easy-to-use, and functional circular time range picker library for Android. Use this library to mimic Apple's iOS or Samsung's bedtime picker. (by Droppers)

  • 2. TimeRangePicker

  • SSCustomBottomNavigation

    Animated TabBar with native control and Jetpack Navigation support..✨🔖🚀

  • 3. SSCustomBottomNavigation

  • curtains

    Lift the curtain on Android Windows!

  • The library has great documentation, examples, samples, and FAQ. It is developed under Apache License, Version 2.0, and currently has a 1.2.1 version, so it is ready for production projects.

  • leakcanary

    A memory leak detection library for Android.

  • Knowing when root views are detached, e.g. to detect if they might be leaking (LeakCanary).

  • radiography

    Text-ray goggles for your Android UI.

  • Listing all attached root views for debugging (Radiography) or test purposes (Espresso).

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  • android-test

    An extensive framework for testing Android apps

  • Listing all attached root views for debugging (Radiography) or test purposes (Espresso).

  • RoundedProgressBar

    A customizable, animated progress bar that features rounded corners. This Android library is designed to look great and be simple to use 🎉

  • 5. RoundedProgressBar

  • SurveyKit

    Android library to create beautiful surveys (aligned with ResearchKit on iOS)

  • 6. SurveyKit

  • ResearchKit

    ResearchKit is an open source software framework that makes it easy to create apps for medical research or for other research projects.

  • It was inspired by ResearchKit Surveys on iOS and allows you to create many types of surveys. You can check them in the really good comprehensive documentation with examples.

  • gamedge

    An Android application for browsing video games and checking the latest gaming news from around the world.

  • 7. Gamedge

  • SegmentedProgressBar

    An instagram-like segmented progress bar (by TOrnelas)

  • 8. SegmentedProgressBar

  • licensee

    Gradle plugin which validates the licenses of your dependency graph match what you expect

  • 9. Licensee

  • TedImagePicker

    TedImagePicker is simple/beautiful/smart image picker

  • lots of configuration options like animations, showing camera tile background, image, back button, etc. All the configuration options you can find in quite comprehensive documentation.

  • panel-layout

    Discontinued Panel Layout is a UI library for Android that allows you to display a floating and resizable panel that can also snap to the edges.

  • 12. PanelLayout

  • PanelKit

  • The library was inspired by the iOS UI framework PanelKit and uses ConstraintLayout to lay out the panel with rest of the content.

  • kmm-production-sample

    This is an open-source, mobile, cross-platform application built with Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile. It's a simple RSS reader, and you can download it from the App Store and Google Play. It's been designed to demonstrate how KMM can be used in real production projects.

  • 13. KMM Production Sample

  • SmartRecyclerAdapter

    Small, smart and generic adapter for recycler view with easy and advanced data to ViewHolder binding.

  • 14. Smart Recycler Adapter

  • Cabret-Log

    Discontinued :pencil2: Method call logging for Kotlin Multiplatform

  • 15. Cabaret Log

  • SuperBottomBar

    Spotify like android material bottom navigation bar library.

  • 16. SuperBottomBar

  • mosaic

    An experimental tool for building console UI in Kotlin using the Jetpack Compose compiler/runtime (by JakeWharton)

  • 17. Mosaic

  • Ink

    🌈 React for interactive command-line apps

  • The library was developed by Jake Wharton who was inspired by Ink.

  • LabeledSeekSlider

    Custom & highly configurable seek slider with sliding intervals, disabled state and every possible setting to tackle!

  • 18. LabeledSeekSlider

  • EitherNet

    A pluggable sealed API result type for modeling Retrofit responses.

  • 19. EitherNet

  • Retrofit

    A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM

  • This is a library from Slack Engineering and gives us a pluggable sealed API result type for modeling Retrofit responses.

  • Channelify

    Convert your YouTube channel into a native Android app using YouTube Data API v3.

  • 20. Channelify

  • custom-floating-action-button

    This view is for replacement of standard Floating Action Button from Google Support Library. It is easy to use, customizable and you can also add text to button

  • 21. Custom Floating Action Button

  • android-testify

    Discontinued Add screenshots to your Android tests

  • 22. Testify — Android Screenshot Testing

  • MixAnimationsMotionLayout

    En este repo encontraras multiples ejemplos de animaciones con #MotionLayout

  • 23. MixAnimationsMotionLayout

  • SpotiFlyer

    Kotlin Multiplatform Music Downloader, Supports Spotify / Gaana / Youtube Music / Jio Saavn / SoundCloud.

  • 24. SpotiFlyer

  • Quantitizer

    :sparkles: A quantity stepper for android projects

  • 25. Quantitizer

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