What are the most common used (3rd party) libraries and frameworks used in Android development?

• AndroidUtilCode

  2 32,918 0.0 Java

  :fire: Android developers should collect the following utils(updating).

In all my projects I use this lib AndroidUtilCode

• accompanist

  15 7,203 8.7 Kotlin

  A collection of extension libraries for Jetpack Compose

  

Accompanist for unofficial stuff that's still useful

• InfluxDB

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• Retrofit

  47 42,613 9.1 HTML

  A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM

  

Networking: Retrofit for APIs, OkHttp for HTTP stack

• landscapist

  2 1,939 9.4 Kotlin

  🌻 A pluggable, highly optimized Jetpack Compose and Kotlin Multiplatform image loading library that fetches and displays network images with Glide, Coil, and Fresco.

Landscapist for image loading

• Picasso

  5 18,661 8.2 Kotlin

  A powerful image downloading and caching library for Android

  

Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco

• simple-stack

  40 1,351 5.8 Java

  [ACTIVE] Simple Stack, a backstack library / navigation framework for simpler navigation and state management (for fragments, views, or whatevers).

The big stuff in AndroidX - ViewModel, LiveData (and/or StateFlow), the navigation component (or SimpleStack), and updated/improved versions of Activity/Fragment classes

• OkHttp

  43 45,243 9.5 Kotlin

  Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.

  

Networking: Retrofit for APIs, OkHttp for HTTP stack

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• material-components-android

  40 15,946 9.4 Java

  Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for Android

  

UI: Material components

• Permission Dispatcher

  3 11,214 0.0 Java

  A declarative API to handle Android runtime permissions.

  

Permissions are generally a pain, but I've used PermissionsDispatcher, EasyPermissions, and RxPermissions at various times

• SQLDelight

  32 5,917 9.6 Kotlin

  SQLDelight - Generates typesafe Kotlin APIs from SQL

  

Persistence: Room, SqlDelight

• Fresco

  3 17,041 9.3 Java

  An Android library for managing images and the memory they use.

  

Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco

• kotlinx.serialization

  52 5,099 8.5 Kotlin

  Kotlin multiplatform / multi-format serialization

  

JSON de/serialization: Kotlin serialization, Moshi

• Moshi

  17 9,500 8.6 Kotlin

  A modern JSON library for Kotlin and Java.

  

JSON de/serialization: Kotlin serialization, Moshi

• glide

  15 34,353 8.0 Java

  An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling

  

Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco

• Coil

  8 10,287 9.5 Kotlin

  Image loading for Android and Compose Multiplatform.

  

Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco

• RxJava

  15 47,647 8.4 Java

  RxJava – Reactive Extensions for the JVM – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM.

  

Concurrency: Kotlin coroutines for general use, Rx or Flow for reactive programming (you can technically use Rx for regular concurrency as well, but not really what it's meant for)

• scrcpy

  983 101,841 9.4 C

  Display and control your Android device

  

scrcpy to see/use your device via your computer

• timber

  9 10,316 4.7 Kotlin

  A logger with a small, extensible API which provides utility on top of Android's normal Log class.

Timber for logging

• Lottie for Android, iOS, and React Native

  43 34,646 8.3 Java

  Render After Effects animations natively on Android and iOS, Web, and React Native

  

Lottie/RLottie for animated assets (or AnimatedVectorDrawable)

• rlottie

  5 1,071 3.3 C++

  A platform independent standalone library that plays Lottie Animation.

  

Lottie/RLottie for animated assets (or AnimatedVectorDrawable)

• MPAndroidChart

  20 37,247 0.0 Java

  A powerful 🚀 Android chart view / graph view library, supporting line- bar- pie- radar- bubble- and candlestick charts as well as scaling, panning and animations.

MPAndroidChart for charts and graphs

• EasyPermissions

  2 9,818 0.0 Java

  Simplify Android M system permissions

  

Permissions are generally a pain, but I've used PermissionsDispatcher, EasyPermissions, and RxPermissions at various times

• RxPermissions

  2 10,475 0.0 Java

  Discontinued Android runtime permissions powered by RxJava2

Permissions are generally a pain, but I've used PermissionsDispatcher, EasyPermissions, and RxPermissions at various times

• ReactiveNetwork

  1 2,528 0.0 Java

  Android library listening network connection state and Internet connectivity with RxJava Observables

ReactiveNetwork for connectivity

• paris

  5 1,893 1.8 Kotlin

  Define and apply styles to Android views programmatically

  

Paris for applying styles programmatically in non-Compose code

• Epoxy

  14 8,449 5.7 Java

  Epoxy is an Android library for building complex screens in a RecyclerView

  

RecyclerView utilities: Epoxy, Groupie, AdapterDelegates

• groupie

  10 3,645 5.8 Java

  Groupie helps you display and manage complex RecyclerView layouts.

RecyclerView utilities: Epoxy, Groupie, AdapterDelegates

• AdapterDelegates

  7 2,921 0.0 Java

  "Favor composition over inheritance" for RecyclerView Adapters

RecyclerView utilities: Epoxy, Groupie, AdapterDelegates

• plaid

  3 16,254 0.0 Kotlin

  An Android app which provides design news & inspiration as well as being an example of implementing material design.

Apps for inspiration/examples: Plaid, Tivi

• tivi

  28 6,395 9.8 Kotlin

  Tivi is a TV show tracking Android app, which connects to trakt.tv

Apps for inspiration/examples: Plaid, Tivi

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