Important Library for Android Developers
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if you’re android developers you will always hear about library, what is library? Library is the important thing that will help you when develop application i will not explain widely about library,the simple explanation is library same like plugin in the software.
Standard Package
this standard package is the library that are quite popular
- Retrofit
REST Client for android is useful to fetch data from database, you don’t need to parse the JSON data - Picasso
a great library for image downloading and catching - ButterKnife
make Button or view on android development more easier than usual - IcePick
Android Instance library
and now we make a summary about android library
Networking
- Retrofit
REST Client API , can be used for fetching data from database - Picasso
a great Library for image downloading and catching - Ion
Loading remote Asynchronous networking - Volley
same as Retrofit ,to fetch data from database ,GOOGLE HTTP library - OkHttp
Support asynchronous request - Glide
Image loader alternative supported by google - Android Universal Image Loaderalternative image loader that can replace Picasso and Glide
- Fresco
An Image management library from facebook
ListView
- EasyListViewAdapterEasier to implement list view with Cleaner code,Row View can be created by xml or Java
- GridListViewAdapters
Build Unlimited Grid layout,like PlayStore - StickyListHeaders
create first list become sticky when scroll down - PinnedListView
Pinned Section with ListView - ListViewAnimations
customize animate ListView item - Cardslib
Card UI for List or Grids - PullToRefresh
useful to make the ListView refresh when scroll down
RecycleView
- UltimateRecycleView
more Animation,Augmented RecycleView with refreshing,loading more and many more - AdvRecycleView
Extended RecycleView with swipe to dismiss, and draggable or expanding items - Android-Parallax-recycleviewParallax view on RecycleView
- Sticky-headers-recycleviewSticky header animation for Android RecycleView
- FastAdapter
Simple and Great for android RecycleView UI - ItemAnimators
Animate Add/Remove/Add/Move - RecycleViewHelper
Provide most common function around recycle view like swipe to dismiss, drag and drop, divider in the UI,create event when selected,on click listener for items
Easy Navigation
- JazzyViewPager
Pager with more animation - ParallaxPager
ViewPager with Parallax scrolling effect - SlidingMenu
Easily to create application with sliding menu like thos made popular in the Google+,Youtube and Facebook - DraggablePanel
Panels that can be dragged - MaterialDrawer
Easily add a navigation drawer with material style and AccountSwitcher
UI Component
- SparkButton
Library to create button with Twitter’s hearth like animation - SmoothProgressBar
Horizontal Indeterminate progress - Rebound
Easy spring dynamics - AndroidImageSlider
Animated image transitions - FloatingActionButton
Material design floating button - NexusDialog
Create form dialogs easily - Dialogplus
Simple,easy dialogs - Iconify
Easily embed icons into your app - Scissor
An easy image cropping library - Material Search View
Beautiful material simple Searchview
Image Processing
- AndroidPhotoFilters
create interesting effects on any image of your choice - Android-GpuImage
Popular GPU Image Procesing - Picasso
Image Loader for android studio - Glide
Image Loader alternative and simple
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