Free Android UI library & component roundup
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Join For FreeAndroid platform has managed to form a massive and active community of
developers in just few years. Many community driven projects are now
maturing to the stage that they can be used even on commercial
production software without having to worry about quality.
I'm listing here free and open source Android UI libraries
and components that I know of. If you know any that you would recommend
please leave a comment, tweet me or email me and I'll add it to the
list.
UI component libraries
Project website: http://greendroid.cyrilmottier.com/Example app market link
This project provides implementation for following UI design patterns:
- Action Bar
- Quick Actions
- Workspaces
- Dynamic List
+ many more useful components
ActionBarSherlockProject website: http://actionbarsherlock.com/
Example app market link
Until Google's APIs for action bars for phones come out with ICS this project is the project to use.
Jake has lately moved his project beyond just Action Bars. There are components for workspaces and more.
Android Compatibility Package
Project website:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/compatibility-library.html
http://developer.android.com/sdk/compatibility-library.html
This is an official extension for Android libraries from Google. It contains a lot of very useful APIs. The package also contains implementation for workspaces UI design pattern.
UI components
This is the official Google I|O app (also used for GDDs). The app implements a lot of UI design patterns and has beenused as the reference implementation by Google's Android dev advocates.
I especially recommend using implementation of the Dashboard UI design pattern from this app.
(Google code link to Dashboard.java)
Android-Viewflow
Project website: https://github.com/pakerfeldt/android-viewflow
This
project's implementation of Workspaces UI design pattern looks and
feels very close to what for example Google docs is using.This project can be used to implement a cover flow. Check out their video on the project site for more info.
[Update 2011-10-03. Thanks: Jake (@JakeWharton), Akshay (@akshaydashrath), David (@dcaunt)]
android-viewbadger
Project website: https://github.com/jgilfelt/android-viewbadger
This project lets devs add badges to views without having to change layout files.
android-pulltorefresh
Project website: https://github.com/johannilsson/android-pulltorefresh
This project implements dynamic list / pull to refresh UI design pattern.
Android-ViewPagerIndicator
Project website: https://github.com/JakeWharton/Android-ViewPagerIndicator
This project can be used to implement workspaces UI design pattern.
From http://www.androiduipatterns.com/2011/10/free-android-ui-library-component.html
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