wasabeef / awesome-android-libraries

This is an alphabetical list of libraries for Android development, the majority being actively maintained.

List of Android Libraries

This is an alphabetical list of libraries for Android development, the majority being actively maintained.

UI/UX Library is here.

Index

• Networking
• Image Loader
• Drawable
• Dependency Injections
• JSON
• O/R Mapping
• NoSQL
• Pub/Sub
• Logger
• Background Processing
• Fonts
• Video
• Parcelables
• Functional Programming
  • Adding Java-8 Functional Programming Features
  • Functional Reactive Programming
• Social Networks
• WebRTC
• Image Processing
• Camera
• Security
• Media
• Showcases
• Maps
• Other

Networking

Name	Repository	License
Android Asynchronous Http Client	https://github.com/loopj/android-async-http	Apache License V2
Async Http Client	https://github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client	Apache License V2
ion	https://github.com/koush/ion	Apache License V2
OkHttp	https://github.com/square/okhttp	Apache License V2
Retrofit	https://github.com/square/retrofit	Apache License V2
RxNetty	https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxNetty	Apache License V2
Basic HTTP Client for Java	https://code.google.com/p/basic-http-client/	Apache License V2

Image Loader

Name	Repository	License
Glide	https://github.com/bumptech/glide	License
ion	https://github.com/koush/ion	Apache License V2
Picasso	https://github.com/square/picasso	Apache License V2
Universal Image Loader	https://github.com/nostra13/Android-Universal-Image-Loader	Apache License V2
Fresco	https://github.com/facebook/fresco	BSD License

Drawable

Name	Repository	License
MrVector	https://github.com/telly/MrVector	License

Dependency Injections

Name	Repository	License
AndroidAnnotations	https://github.com/excilys/androidannotations	Apache License V2
Butter Knife	https://github.com/JakeWharton/butterknife	Apache License V2
Dagger(Square)	https://github.com/square/dagger	Apache License V2
Dagger(Google)	https://github.com/google/dagger	Apache License V2
RoboGuice	https://github.com/roboguice/roboguice	Apache License V2
Scopes	https://github.com/emmano/Scopes	MIT

JSON

Name	Repository	License
Gson	http://google-gson.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/	Apache License V2
ig-json-parser	https://github.com/Instagram/ig-json-parser	BSD
Jackson	https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson	Apache License V2

O/R Mapping

Name	Repository	License
ActiveAndroid	https://github.com/pardom/ActiveAndroid	Apache License V2
Cupboard for Android	https://bitbucket.org/littlerobots/cupboard	Apache License V2
DBFlow	https://github.com/Raizlabs/DBFlow	MIT
greenDAO	https://github.com/greenrobot/greenDAO	Apache License V2
RushOrm	https://github.com/Stuart-campbell/RushOrm	Apache License V2
Sugar ORM	https://github.com/satyan/sugar	Satya Narayan
Shillelagh	https://github.com/pieces029/shillelagh	Apache License V2
SQLBrite	https://github.com/square/sqlbrite	Apache License V2
Ollie	https://github.com/pardom/Ollie	Apache License V2
TriOrm	https://github.com/HendrixString/Android-TriOrm	Apache License V2

NoSQL

Name	Repository	License
Couchbase-Lite-Android	https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-android	Apache License V2
Realm	https://github.com/realm/realm-java	Apache License V2
SimpleNoSQL	https://github.com/Jearil/SimpleNoSQL	Apache License V2
RxSimpleNoSQL	https://github.com/xmartlabs/RxSimpleNoSQL	Apache License V2
SnappyDB	https://github.com/nhachicha/SnappyDB	Apache License V2

Pub/Sub

Name	Repository	License
EventBus	https://github.com/greenrobot/EventBus	Apache License V2
Otto	https://github.com/square/otto	Apache License V2
MBassador	https://github.com/bennidi/mbassador	MIT

Logger

Name	Repository	License
Hugo	https://github.com/JakeWharton/hugo	Apache License V2
Timber	https://github.com/JakeWharton/timber	Apache License V2
LoggingInterceptor	https://github.com/ihsanbal/LoggingInterceptor	MIT

Background Processing

Name	Repository	License
Android Priority Job Queue	https://github.com/path/android-priority-jobqueue	MIT
Tape	https://github.com/square/tape	Apache License V2
Zorn	https://github.com/HendrixString/Android-Zorn	Apache License V2

Fonts

Name	Repository	License
Calligraphy	https://github.com/chrisjenx/Calligraphy	Apache License V2

Video

Name	Repository	License
ExoPlayer	https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer	Apache License V2
ijkplayer	https://github.com/bbcallen/ijkplayer	Apache License V2
mp4parser	https://github.com/sannies/mp4parser	Apache License V2

Parcelables

Name	Repository	License
AutoParcel	https://github.com/frankiesardo/auto-parcel	Apache License V2
Akatsuki	https://github.com/tom91136/Akatsuki	Apache License V2
Icepick	https://github.com/frankiesardo/icepick	Apache License V2
Parceler	https://github.com/johncarl81/parceler	Apache License V2

Functional Programming

Adding Java-8 Functional Programming Features

Name	Repository	License
Retrolambda	https://github.com/orfjackal/retrolambda	Apache License V2

Functional Reactive Programming

Name	Repository	License
RxAndroid	https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxAndroid	Apache License V2
RxJava	https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava	Apache License V2

Social Networks

Name	Repository	License
ASNE	https://github.com/gorbin/ASNE	MIT
Facebook SDK	https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk	Apache License V2
Twitter Fabric	Unknown	Unknown

WebRTC

Name	Repository	License
AndroidRTC	https://github.com/pchab/AndroidRTC	Apache License V2

Image Processing

Name	Repository	License
GPUImage for Android	https://github.com/CyberAgent/android-gpuimage	Apache License V2

Camera

Name	Repository	License
Landscape video camera	https://github.com/jmolsmobile/LandscapeVideoCamera	Apache License V2
EasyCamera	https://github.com/Glamdring/EasyCamera	Apache License V2

Build

Name	Repository	License
Buck	https://github.com/facebook/buck	Apache License V2

Security

Name	Repository	License
Grab'n Run	https://github.com/lukeFalsina/Grab-n-Run	Apache License V2

Media

Name	Repository	License
PdfMyXml	https://github.com/HendrixString/Android-PdfMyXml	Apache License V2

Showcases

Name	Repository	License
android-best-practices	https://github.com/futurice/android-best-practices	CC BY 4.0
BlurTestAndroid	https://github.com/patrickfav/BlurTestAndroid	Unknown
card.io-Android-source	https://github.com/card-io/card.io-Android-source	MIT
iosched	https://github.com/google/iosched	Apache License V2
JamsMusicPlayer	https://github.com/psaravan/JamsMusicPlayer	Apache License V2
Reflection No Reflection	https://github.com/stephanenicolas/reflection-no-reflection	Apache License V2
Mizuu	https://github.com/MizzleDK/Mizuu	Apache License V2
Mover	https://github.com/Codetail/Mover	Apache License V2
Talon-for-Twitter	https://github.com/klinker24/Talon-for-Twitter	Apache License V2
Telecine	https://github.com/JakeWharton/Telecine	Apache License V2
u2020	https://github.com/JakeWharton/u2020	Apache License V2

Maps

Name	Repository	License
GraphHopper	https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper	Apache License V2
Mapsforge	https://github.com/mapsforge/mapsforge	LGPL

Other

Name	Repository	License
Joda Time Android	https://github.com/dlew/joda-time-android	Apache License V2
Bolts	https://github.com/BoltsFramework/Bolts-Android	BSD
Secure Preference Manager	http://prashantsolanki3.github.io/Secure-Pref-Manager/	Apache License V2

awesome-android-libraries's Issues

Field Validation Library

Please add this simple and easy library for field validation to Other table.

Link: https://github.com/WellingtonCosta/convalida

new Library

https://github.com/nimengbo/StickerView for image editing

DexMovingImageView

https://github.com/dexlex/DexMovingImageView

Add a Database Library: TinyDB

Can you please add my library to your list? The link is here

Android Prompter Library

Hello, what do you think about my simple Android Prompter library ?
https://github.com/stasbar/Android-Prompter

Link expired

Hi,
This link is expired, please update.
https://dev.twitter.com/products/fabric

Square/dagger is deprecated

square/dagger is no longer maintained and sqauare recommends to upgrade to google's dagger2.
The migration guide can be found here.

Android Host Monitor

Easily monitor remote hosts and ports reachability on Android. Gradle and Maven dependency supported. Apache License 2.0.
https://github.com/alexbbb/android-host-monitor

add RendererRecyclerViewAdapter library

https://github.com/vivchar/RendererRecyclerViewAdapter

• Now you do not need to implement adapters for RecyclerView;
• You can easily use several types of cells in a single list;
• You can reuse cells in different RecyclerView;
• You can easily add a nested RecyclerView;
• You can easily add the DiffUtil support;
• You can easily save a state of a Item when scroll;
• Using this library will protect you from the appearance of any business logic in an adapter

Music player app

I want to create a music player
I need a help that which library is better suggest me

Consider adding AutoplayVideos

https://github.com/Krupen/AutoplayVideos

[Functional programming] Add Java Stream API backporting lib

Please add this awesome https://github.com/aNNiMON/Lightweight-Stream-API library to Functional programming table.

Project seems abandoned

Hi @wasabeef, are you still maintaining this project? It seems no PR was answered since Mar 22, 2017.

droidparts

https://github.com/yanchenko/droidparts/

Dependency Injections

Add this to Dependency Injections:
https://github.com/stephanenicolas/toothpick

Google-Gson URL updated

https://github.com/google/gson

TastyToast Request to add

TastyToast is an Android Library which helps an user to get rid of their native Android Toast.

TastyToast helps the user by characterising the type of Toast into five main category which are success, danger, warning, info and default.

For each default category, it not only changes background and text colour but also adds tasty Custom View on the left side of Toast.

Linters/Static Code Analysis & More

Android Permission make easy library

Please add my library to make the run time permission(marshmallow and up) easy to implement.
https://github.com/00ec454/Ask

logback-android

https://github.com/tony19/logback-android

PlayPauseDrawable

https://github.com/tarek360/PlayPauseDrawable

List is not in alphabetical order

• It states that the list of libraries in alphabetical order, but it is not

Add unitOf

Can you add https://github.com/avipars/unit-Of to your list?

MrVector deprecated

MrVector library is not being maintained anymore. Should be removed or instead link to the SupportVectorDrawable documentation.

https://github.com/telly/MrVector

Calligraphy Version no longer maintained

The version of Calligraphy mentioned here is no longer maintained. Should the one that is maintained be linked instead?