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

• AndroidUtilCode

  1 30,801 4.0 Java

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

  In all my projects I use this lib AndroidUtilCode

• accompanist

  6 4,814 9.5 Kotlin

  A collection of extension libraries for Jetpack Compose

  

  Accompanist for unofficial stuff that's still useful

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• Retrofit

  20 39,972 7.3 Java

  A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM

  

  Networking: Retrofit for APIs, OkHttp for HTTP stack

• landscapist

  1 937 8.9 Kotlin

  🍂 Jetpack Compose image loading library that fetches and displays network images with Glide, Coil, and Fresco

  Landscapist for image loading

• Picasso

  4 18,279 8.7 Kotlin

  A powerful image downloading and caching library for Android

  

  Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco

• simple-stack

  15 1,212 7.2 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

  18 42,152 9.4 Kotlin

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

  

  Networking: Retrofit for APIs, OkHttp for HTTP stack

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• material-components-android

  19 13,626 9.8 Java

  Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for Android

  

  UI: Material components

• Permission Dispatcher

  2 10,962 5.1 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

  14 4,591 9.1 Kotlin

  SQLDelight - Generates typesafe Kotlin APIs from SQL

  

  Persistence: Room, SqlDelight

• Fresco

  2 16,789 9.3 Java

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

  

  Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco

• kotlinx.serialization

  18 3,856 7.9 Kotlin

  Kotlin multiplatform / multi-format serialization

  

  JSON de/serialization: Kotlin serialization, Moshi

• Moshi

  8 8,235 8.5 Kotlin

  A modern JSON library for Kotlin and Java.

  

  JSON de/serialization: Kotlin serialization, Moshi

• glide

  8 32,589 7.6 Java

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

  

  Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco

• Coil

  6 8,137 9.4 Kotlin

  Image loading for Android backed by Kotlin Coroutines.

  

  Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco

• RxJava

  5 46,063 7.9 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

  352 65,147 9.7 C

  Display and control your Android device

  

  scrcpy to see/use your device via your computer

• timber

  5 9,608 5.9 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

  21 32,743 8.8 Java

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

  

  Lottie/RLottie for animated assets (or AnimatedVectorDrawable)

• rlottie

  3 682 4.5 C++

  A platform independent standalone library that plays Lottie Animation.

  

  Lottie/RLottie for animated assets (or AnimatedVectorDrawable)

• MPAndroidChart

  9 35,077 1.0 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 9,454 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 10,334 0.8 Java

  Android runtime permissions powered by RxJava2

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

• ReactiveNetwork

  1 2,489 10.0 Java

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

  ReactiveNetwork for connectivity

• paris

  4 1,778 2.7 Kotlin

  Define and apply styles to Android views programmatically

  

  Paris for applying styles programmatically in non-Compose code

• Epoxy

  9 7,906 6.0 Java

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

  

  RecyclerView utilities: Epoxy, Groupie, AdapterDelegates

• groupie

  3 3,411 4.0 Java

  Groupie helps you display and manage complex RecyclerView layouts.

  RecyclerView utilities: Epoxy, Groupie, AdapterDelegates

• AdapterDelegates

  4 2,800 5.8 Java

  "Favor composition over inheritance" for RecyclerView Adapters

  RecyclerView utilities: Epoxy, Groupie, AdapterDelegates

• plaid

  1 16,252 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

  15 5,188 8.9 Kotlin

  Tivi is a work-in-progress TV show tracking Android app, which connects to Trakt.tv. It is still in its early stages of development and currently only contains two pieces of UI. It is under heavy development.

  Apps for inspiration/examples: Plaid, Tivi

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