2015 is coming to an end, and it’s time to take stock of the year. Here are the top 10 new open source projects for Android development in 2015. The data comes from GitHub search, and only new projects created since January 1, 2015 are eligible. Therefore, some excellent projects created earlier, such as RxJava, are not listed on the list. The ranking rules are Best Match, welcome to make fun of them.
10. Material-Animations
It is an open source project to achieve a variety of Material style animation effects, including jump animation between activities, View animation and so on.
Making: github.com/lgvalle/Mat…
9. MaterialDrawer
When it comes to Android Design, the first thing that comes to mind is the classic sidebar. Android provides a standard implementation of drawers for the sidebar. This open source project provides a variety of Material style sidebars. Just give it a try.
Making: github.com/mikepenz/Ma…
8. MaterialViewPager
In 2015, Material was really popular around the world, and the eighth place was also the Material Design version of the traditional ViewPager control.
Making: github.com/florent37/M…
7. stetho
Stetho is an Android debugger provided by Facebook. You can debug Android Native apps on Chrome just like you can debug Web apps. It sounds cool, but it just feels like it’s been popular for a while.
Making: github.com/facebook/st…
6. plaid
Plaid is an Android App designed in accordance with the Material style. It is a news App that integrates mainstream creativity and Design related information. Would you like to know how to make a complete Material Design App? Just look at it.
Making: github.com/nickbutcher…
5. cheesesquare
Cheesesquare is designed by Android developer chrisbanes to show off the new Android Desgin Support Library, which is a set of wheels that Android has built for us.
- Collapsing Toolbar
- FloatingActionButton
- View anchoring
- NavigationView
- Snackbar
Making: github.com/chrisbanes/…
4. android-UniversalMusicPlayer
This open source project shows how to implement a music player across the various Android platforms, including phones, tablets, cars, watches, TVS and more.
Making: github.com/googlesampl…
3. HomeMirror
Technology is moving faster than we ever imagined. No wonder it made it into the top three of the best open source projects of 2015. Hurry up and have a look.
Making: github.com/HannahMitt/…
2. leakcanary
OutOfMemoryError? It’s time to say goodbye to LeakCanary, which makes finding memory leaks in the OOM so much easier with a simple integration and all the thoughtful reminders that are awesome. However, it is not omnipotent, willing to learn Android development students, memory problem troubleshooting routine posture is one of the required courses.
Making: github.com/square/leak…
1. fresco
This year’s winner is Fresco, also from Facebook. Its powerful memory management feature, once considered a dark technology compared to the traditional image caching tool, has made it to the top of the list of the top 10 New Open Source Android projects of 2015. Congratulations.
Making: github.com/facebook/fr…
In general, Material Design is the theme of this year, big V big factory is still strong, if you want to be popular on GitHub, if not big V, you have to keep up with the technological trend, how can you keep up with the trend and not lag behind? Continue to follow my wechat public account “Android Programmer”, haha.
This article was first published on my wechat public account Android programmer. You can follow me by searching wechat ID:AndroidTrending or scanning code.
