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

• AndroidUtilCode

  1 32,203 4.4 Java

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

  In all my projects I use this lib AndroidUtilCode

• accompanist

  5 6,538 8.1 Kotlin

  A collection of extension libraries for Jetpack Compose

  

  Accompanist for unofficial stuff that's still useful

• InfluxDB

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• Retrofit

  16 41,607 8.8 Java

  A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM

  

  Networking: Retrofit for APIs, OkHttp for HTTP stack

• landscapist

  1 1,616 6.7 Kotlin

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

  Landscapist for image loading

• Picasso

  1 18,530 6.9 Kotlin

  A powerful image downloading and caching library for Android

  

  Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco

• simple-stack

  14 1,311 0.0 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

  13 44,071 8.4 Kotlin

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

  

  Networking: Retrofit for APIs, OkHttp for HTTP stack

• Sonar

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• material-components-android

  12 15,061 8.7 Java

  Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for Android

  

  UI: Material components

• Permission Dispatcher

  1 11,136 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

  11 5,261 8.3 Kotlin

  SQLDelight - Generates typesafe Kotlin APIs from SQL

  

  Persistence: Room, SqlDelight

• Fresco

  0 16,949 8.2 Java

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

  

  Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco

• kotlinx.serialization

  12 4,539 9.0 Kotlin

  Kotlin multiplatform / multi-format serialization

  

  JSON de/serialization: Kotlin serialization, Moshi

• Moshi

  6 9,002 8.2 Kotlin

  A modern JSON library for Kotlin and Java.

  

  JSON de/serialization: Kotlin serialization, Moshi

• glide

  4 33,655 7.4 Java

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

  

  Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco

• Coil

  2 9,235 7.5 Kotlin

  Image loading for Android backed by Kotlin Coroutines.

  

  Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco

• RxJava

  6 47,057 8.1 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

  387 84,521 9.6 C

  Display and control your Android device

  

  scrcpy to see/use your device via your computer

• timber

  4 10,033 0.0 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

  7 33,960 9.0 Java

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

  

  Lottie/RLottie for animated assets (or AnimatedVectorDrawable)

• rlottie

  2 876 0.0 C++

  A platform independent standalone library that plays Lottie Animation.

  

  Lottie/RLottie for animated assets (or AnimatedVectorDrawable)

• MPAndroidChart

  4 36,538 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

  0 9,691 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

  0 10,439 0.0 Java

  Android runtime permissions powered by RxJava2

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

• ReactiveNetwork

  0 2,529 4.1 Java

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

  ReactiveNetwork for connectivity

• paris

  1 1,866 2.2 Kotlin

  Define and apply styles to Android views programmatically

  

  Paris for applying styles programmatically in non-Compose code

• Epoxy

  3 8,220 6.8 Java

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

  

  RecyclerView utilities: Epoxy, Groupie, AdapterDelegates

• groupie

  3 3,491 0.0 Java

  Groupie helps you display and manage complex RecyclerView layouts.

  RecyclerView utilities: Epoxy, Groupie, AdapterDelegates

• AdapterDelegates

  0 2,879 0.0 Java

  "Favor composition over inheritance" for RecyclerView Adapters

  RecyclerView utilities: Epoxy, Groupie, AdapterDelegates

• plaid

  0 16,256 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

  6 5,889 7.8 Kotlin

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

  Apps for inspiration/examples: Plaid, Tivi

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