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Software libraries are an amazing way to speed up coding for Android. Leverage the hard work of other developers to make your life lighter. There are tons of amazing Android libraries out there, but how to find the right one? We put together this list to give you a embark.
Animation
Android View Animations: A powerful animation library that makes it truly effortless to create various effects.
RecyclerView Animators: Permits you to use the RecyclerView class with several cool animations.
CloudRail: CloudRail helps you to integrate services via API much swifter. It bundles numerous services like for example Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive into a single, unified API. Moreover it treats API updates for you and keeps the API towards your code consistent. Interfaces are available for Cloud Storage, Social, Payment and many more.
Retrofit: Retrofit by Square is a type safe REST client for Android. It basically turns an http API into a Java interface.
Charts
MPAndroidChart: A powerful library to generate charts on Android. Offers eight different chart types and a lot of gestures.
AndroidCharts: An effortless way to create Charts, with customizable features
Database
SQLBrite : Creates a wrapper around SQLiteOpenHelper and ContentResolver to use stream semantics in queries.
Sugar ORM: Effortless way to work with a SQLite database without the need to write SQL queries.
Data Structures
Eclipse Collections: Collections framework for Java to eg put iteration methods on the container types.
Date & Time
TimesSquare for Android Plain and standalone widget to pick a date from a calendar view.
Material Calendar View Android's CalendarView ported to Material design.
Dependencies
Dagger A prompt way to do dependency injections for Android
Files
Android-FilePicker: A photopicker to select pictures or documents out of a nice list
Material File Picker: A elementary fiel picker in Material design
Functional Programing
Retrolambda: A way to use Lambdas on Java version 7
Gestures
Sensey: The effortless way to add gestures to your Android application
Bluetooth
Android-BluetoothSPPLibrary: Hardware developer? This is an effortless way to use the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile
RxAndroidBle: Lightly treat Bluetooth Low Energy
Camera
CameraFilter: A realtime camera filter using OpenGL shaders
Material Camera: A swift and effortless camera framework for Android
Cloud Storage
Unified Cloud Storage API: A solution which permits you to integrate Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and many more via a single API.
Unified Enterprise Cloud Storage API: Integrate backend cloud storage providers like AWS S3, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Storage, Rackspace and more via one API.
Location
ReactiveLocation: Puny but very useful wrapper of the Google Play API to get the location
Brainy Location Library: Another library to simplify the usage of location providers
Layout
Android Swipe Layout: Provides swipe functionality for objects. For example swipe to left to delete it.
FlexboxLayout : Brings a box layout to Android as you might know it from CSS
Logging
Logger: Plain logger for Android
Hugo: The classic: Annotation triggered method call logging
AirMapView : View abstraction for Google Maps API. Especially interesting for apps without Google Play Services
Audio
Music Player: A accomplish music player including nice UI
RxAndroidAudio : Encapsulates the Android Audio API with Rx support
android-gif-drawable: Use View and Drawable with animated GIFs
GifView : Another library for playing GIFs on Android with View
Photo
uCrop: A cool library to crop photos on Android
Slide: Media management and picture loading library for Android
Movie
VideoPlayerManager: A library to help you with the Android MediaPlayer class
Effortless Movie Player: An effortless to use movie player which can be used via view
Messaging
Chateau: Framework to provide talk functionality in your Android app
Networking
OkHttp: HTTP client for Android
AndroidAsync: A low level network protocol library
Shove Notifications
PubNub: A commercial service to treat shove notifications
Gandalf: Inform your users about fresh updates or maintenance
Payments
Android In-App Billing v3 Library: Lightly treat in-app payments via the Android v3 API
Checkout: Another library for in-app purchases
Social
Unified Social API: Integrate functions from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Microsoft and many more into your app.
Security
Sodium: Effortless way to do encryption, decryption, signatures and hashing
PiracyChecker: Protect your app from being pirated using Googles LVL
Ticker: UI component to display scrolling text
MaterialEditText: Text input in Material Design
fontbinding: Custom-built fonts in XML using data roping
Calligraphy An effortless way to use custom-built fonts on your Android app
User Interface
Material Design Android Library: Use Googles Material Design in Apps as of Android Two.Two
Material: Another Library to bring Material Design to older apps
Activity Indicator
AppIntro: Create cool intros for your apps similar to Googles original apps
LolliPin: Need a pin code in your app? Here is a library for that
Buttons
Android-Bootstrap: Use Bootstrap specifications to eg create buttons in your app
Android Morphing Button: Buttons for Android which can switch size and form to display a “ok” message for example
Keyboard
KeyboardVisibilityEvent: Effortless way to display and hide the keyboard
AndroidKeyboardWatcher: Puny library to track open / close events from keyboard
BottomBar: A view component which provides a bottom navigation bar in Material Design
Side Menu Add a nice side menu with several categories to you app
Rating
Android-Rate: A ordinary library to remind users to rate your app after a few days
SimpleRatingBar: UI component for a rating based on starlets
Slider
SlidingMenu: Lightly create slide-in menus for your app
MaterialDrawer: A pliable and effortless drawer library for Android
To be continued! We hope that this list and CloudRail helps you to build amazing Android apps.
List of Best Android Libraries for Developers
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Software libraries are an amazing way to speed up coding for Android. Leverage the hard work of other developers to make your life lighter. There are tons of amazing Android libraries out there, but how to find the right one? We put together this list to give you a begin.
Animation
Android View Animations: A powerful animation library that makes it indeed effortless to create various effects.
RecyclerView Animators: Permits you to use the RecyclerView class with several cool animations.
CloudRail: CloudRail helps you to integrate services via API much swifter. It bundles numerous services like for example Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive into a single, unified API. Moreover it treats API updates for you and keeps the API towards your code consistent. Interfaces are available for Cloud Storage, Social, Payment and many more.
Retrofit: Retrofit by Square is a type safe REST client for Android. It basically turns an http API into a Java interface.
Charts
MPAndroidChart: A powerful library to generate charts on Android. Offers eight different chart types and a lot of gestures.
AndroidCharts: An effortless way to create Charts, with customizable features
Database
SQLBrite : Creates a wrapper around SQLiteOpenHelper and ContentResolver to use stream semantics in queries.
Sugar ORM: Effortless way to work with a SQLite database without the need to write SQL queries.
Data Structures
Eclipse Collections: Collections framework for Java to eg put iteration methods on the container types.
Date & Time
TimesSquare for Android Elementary and standalone widget to pick a date from a calendar view.
Material Calendar View Android's CalendarView ported to Material design.
Dependencies
Dagger A prompt way to do dependency injections for Android
Files
Android-FilePicker: A photopicker to select pictures or documents out of a nice list
Material File Picker: A elementary fiel picker in Material design
Functional Programing
Retrolambda: A way to use Lambdas on Java version 7
Gestures
Sensey: The effortless way to add gestures to your Android application
Bluetooth
Android-BluetoothSPPLibrary: Hardware developer? This is an effortless way to use the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile
RxAndroidBle: Lightly treat Bluetooth Low Energy
Camera
CameraFilter: A realtime camera filter using OpenGL shaders
Material Camera: A rapid and effortless camera framework for Android
Cloud Storage
Unified Cloud Storage API: A solution which permits you to integrate Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and many more via a single API.
Unified Enterprise Cloud Storage API: Integrate backend cloud storage providers like AWS S3, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Storage, Rackspace and more via one API.
Location
ReactiveLocation: Puny but very useful wrapper of the Google Play API to get the location
Clever Location Library: Another library to simplify the usage of location providers
Layout
Android Swipe Layout: Provides swipe functionality for objects. For example swipe to left to delete it.
FlexboxLayout : Brings a box layout to Android as you might know it from CSS
Logging
Logger: Ordinary logger for Android
Hugo: The classic: Annotation triggered method call logging
AirMapView : View abstraction for Google Maps API. Especially interesting for apps without Google Play Services
Audio
Music Player: A accomplish music player including nice UI
RxAndroidAudio : Encapsulates the Android Audio API with Rx support
android-gif-drawable: Use View and Drawable with animated GIFs
GifView : Another library for playing GIFs on Android with View
Pic
uCrop: A cool library to crop pictures on Android
Slide: Media management and picture loading library for Android
Movie
VideoPlayerManager: A library to help you with the Android MediaPlayer class
Effortless Movie Player: An effortless to use movie player which can be used via view
Messaging
Chateau: Framework to provide talk functionality in your Android app
Networking
OkHttp: HTTP client for Android
AndroidAsync: A low level network protocol library
Thrust Notifications
PubNub: A commercial service to treat shove notifications
Gandalf: Inform your users about fresh updates or maintenance
Payments
Android In-App Billing v3 Library: Lightly treat in-app payments via the Android v3 API
Checkout: Another library for in-app purchases
Social
Unified Social API: Integrate functions from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Microsoft and many more into your app.
Security
Sodium: Effortless way to do encryption, decryption, signatures and hashing
PiracyChecker: Protect your app from being pirated using Googles LVL
Ticker: UI component to display scrolling text
MaterialEditText: Text input in Material Design
fontbinding: Custom-built fonts in XML using data strapping
Calligraphy An effortless way to use custom-built fonts on your Android app
User Interface
Material Design Android Library: Use Googles Material Design in Apps as of Android Two.Two
Material: Another Library to bring Material Design to older apps
Activity Indicator
AppIntro: Create cool intros for your apps similar to Googles original apps
LolliPin: Need a pin code in your app? Here is a library for that
Buttons
Android-Bootstrap: Use Bootstrap specifications to eg create buttons in your app
Android Morphing Button: Buttons for Android which can switch size and form to display a “ok” message for example
Keyboard
KeyboardVisibilityEvent: Effortless way to display and hide the keyboard
AndroidKeyboardWatcher: Puny library to track open / close events from keyboard
BottomBar: A view component which provides a bottom navigation bar in Material Design
Side Menu Add a nice side menu with several categories to you app
Rating
Android-Rate: A elementary library to remind users to rate your app after a few days
SimpleRatingBar: UI component for a rating based on starlets
Slider
SlidingMenu: Lightly create slide-in menus for your app
MaterialDrawer: A nimble and effortless drawer library for Android
To be continued! We hope that this list and CloudRail helps you to build amazing Android apps.