Useful Android Libraries

FadingActionBar is a library which implements the cool fading action bar effect that can be seen in the new Play Music app. This library uses the techniques outlined by Cyril Mottier in a recent blog post . For reasons of backwards compatibility this library relies on ActionBarSherlock . Useful Links FadingActionBar - GitHub FadingActionBar native - GitHub   FadingActionBar on Google play Source code of the sample application Developer Manuel Peinado Gallego manuel.peinado@gmail.com

This is a library that provides an easy way to include an autonomous layer/view that slides from the side of your screen and which is fully gesture ready, the same way as our detail view in Wunderlist 2 does. This pattern can also be seen in Google+’s notification center or in Basecamp’s detail view. Easy as to draw a green droid yourself, just include the library inside of your source code and you are ready to go. Useful links Sliding Layer - GitHub youtube video SlidingLayer Demo on Google play Developer 6Wunderkinder http://www.6wunderkinder.com

An easy to use ViewPager that adds an awesome set of custom swiping animations. Just change your ViewPagers to JazzyViewPagers and you're good to go! Useful links JazzyViewPager - GitHub Developer Jeremy Feinstein jfeinstein10@gmail.com

An Android library that allows you to easily create applications with slide-in menus. You may use it in your Android apps provided that you cite this project and include the license in your app. SlidingMenu is an Open Source Android library that allows developers to easily create applications with sliding menus like those made popular in the Google+, YouTube, and Facebook apps. Useful links SlidingMenu - GitHub SlidingMenu on Google play Also, you can follow the project on Twitter : @SlidingMenu Developer Jeremy Feinstein jfeinstein10@gmail.com

Crouton is a class that can be used by Android developers that feel the need for an alternative to the Context insensitive Toast . A Crouton will be displayed at the position the developer decides. Standard will be the of an application window. You can line up multiple Croutons for display, that will be shown one after another. Useful links Crouton - GitHub Crouton on Google Play

A modern implementation of the pull-to-refresh interaction for android.  ActionBar-PullToRefresh provides an easy way to add a modern version of the pull-to-refresh interaction to your application. Useful links Demo Application on Google Play ActionBar-PullToRefresh - GitHub Video Developer Chris Banes chris.banes.me

This project aims to provide a reusable pull to refresh widget for Android. Its simple, basic, clean and effective. Useful Links Pull To Refresh for Android - GitHub Developer Johan Nilsson

ACRA is a library enabling Android Application to automatically post their crash reports to a GoogleDoc form. It is targetted to android applications developers to help them get data from their applications when they crash or behave erroneously. A crash reporting feature for android apps is native since Android 2.2 (FroYo) but only available through the official Android Market (and with limited data). ACRA is a great help for Android developers. ACRA's notification systems are clean. If a crash occurs, your application does not add user notifications over existing system's crash notifications or reporting features. If you use the Toast, Status bar notification or direct dialog modes, the "force close" dialog is not displayed anymore and devices where the system native reporting feature is enabled do not offer the user to send an additional report. The user is notified of an error only once, and you might enhance the percieved quality of your application by de...

ActionBarSherlock is an standalone library designed to facilitate the use of the action bar design pattern across all versions of Android through a single API. The library will automatically use the native ActionBar   implementation on Android 4.0 or later. For previous versions which do not include ActionBar, a custom action bar implementation based on the sources of Ice Cream Sandwich will automatically be wrapped around the layout. This allows you to easily develop an application with an action bar for every version of Android from 2.x and up. Useful Links JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock - GitHub actionbarsherlock.com Demo Application on Google Play Developer Jake Wharton jakewharton@gmail.com

Hi, I am Alex Chengalan  , lives in Cochin, India. Basically I am an android application developer and now working at  Heuristics Technosol , Cochin. I would like to welcome you to my blog, which main topic will be external libraries for android.  This blog is to introduce some of the libraries that is very useful while developing android applications. There are so many good libraries for android to make our application most beautiful and efficient for the user. Here I am trying to list out some of them. Hope this will help developers. Happy Coding :-)    Facebook    Twitter