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Android-development projects on GitHub

Best practices, roadmaps, and tools for Android app development.

As of , the most-starred Android-development projects on GitHub are Magisk (63.3K stars), glide (35K stars) and Shizuku (31.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 45 Android-development repositories with 709.7K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was Shizuku, with +65 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+65

Shizuku

RikkaApps/Shizuku · ★ 31.6K

Shizuku lets normal Android apps call privileged system APIs using ADB or root permissions, by running a small Java server via app_process instead of shelling out to su commands.

+43

kotlin-footguns

maxrave-dev/kotlin-footguns · ★ 1.4K

A collection of 224 'agent skills' — markdown files mapping concrete failure modes ('footguns') in Kotlin, Compose Multiplatform and the desktop JVM, mined from a real production music app instead of written from documentation.

+38

Magisk

topjohnwu/Magisk · ★ 63.3K

Magisk is a suite of open source software for customizing Android, supporting devices higher than Android 6.0. Its four headline pieces are MagiskSU, Magisk Modules, MagiskBoot, and Zygisk.

+32

Operit

AAswordman/Operit · ★ 8.7K

Operit is an open-source AI agent platform for Android that connects cloud or local AI models to your phone's system, terminal, browser, files, and project workspaces so the AI can actually perform tasks like file management, coding, and device automation.

The all-time top

45 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · topjohnwu/Magisk

    Magisk

    Magisk is a suite of open source software for customizing Android, supporting devices higher than Android 6.0. Its four headline pieces are MagiskSU, Magisk Modules, MagiskBoot, and Zygisk.

    63.3K
  2. #2 · bumptech/glide

    glide

    A fast, efficient open source media management and image loading framework for Android: it wraps media decoding, memory and disk caching, and resource pooling behind a simple interface.

    35K
  3. #3 · RikkaApps/Shizuku

    Shizuku

    Shizuku lets normal Android apps call privileged system APIs using ADB or root permissions, by running a small Java server via app_process instead of shelling out to su commands.

    31.6K
  1. 4

    android_guides

    28.3Kcodepath/android_guides

    A crowdsourced collection of guides and cliffnotes covering Android development topics, created by CodePath to help developers learn Android beyond scattered blog posts and outdated tutorials.

  2. 5

    butterknife

    25.3KJakeWharton/butterknife · Java

    Butter Knife is an Android library that binds views and callbacks to fields and methods, using annotation processing to generate the boilerplate code for you.

  3. 6

    SmartRefreshLayout

    25.1Kscwang90/SmartRefreshLayout · Java

    SmartRefreshLayout is an Android pull-to-refresh framework: wrap any scrollable view with it to get pull-down-to-refresh and pull-up-to-load-more, with dozens of polished animated headers and footers built in.

  4. 7

    EventBus

    24.7Kgreenrobot/EventBus · Java

    EventBus is a publish/subscribe event bus for Android and Java. It simplifies communication between components — Activities, Fragments, Threads, Services — and decouples event senders from receivers.

  5. 8

    BaseRecyclerViewAdapterHelper

    24.6KCymChad/BaseRecyclerViewAdapterHelper · Kotlin

    BRVAH (BaseRecyclerViewAdapterHelper) is a powerful and flexible RecyclerView Adapter library for Android — a popular open-source project started in 2016 with about 24.6k stars.

  6. 9

    compose-samples

    23.5Kandroid/compose-samples · Kotlin

    Google's official collection of sample apps for learning Jetpack Compose, the modern Android UI toolkit. Each sample is a separate Android Studio project showing different use cases, complexity levels and APIs.

  7. 10

    iosched

    21.6Kgoogle/iosched · Kotlin

    The official Android companion app for the Google I/O developer conference: sessions, codelabs, a venue map, and a personal schedule for attendees. The code was open-sourced and the repository was archived in 2023.

  8. 11

    GSYVideoPlayer

    21.5KCarGuo/GSYVideoPlayer · Java

    GSYVideoPlayer is an open-source Android video player library that wraps several playback kernels — IJKPlayer, Media3 (ExoPlayer2), MediaPlayer and AliPlayer — behind one API, with caching, danmaku, subtitles, filters and ad support built in.

  9. 12

    DoKit

    20.4Kdidi/DoKit · Java

    DoKit is an in-app debug/developer-tools panel for Android, iOS, WeChat mini-programs, and Flutter apps, covering the whole front-end R&D lifecycle: mocking data, performance monitoring, visual inspection and more.

  10. 13

    android-best-practices

    20.4Kfuturice/android-best-practices

    A curated guide of do's and don'ts for Android development, written by developers at Futurice, covering build setup, project structure, libraries, architecture, and testing conventions.

  11. 14

    sunflower

    17.7Kandroid/sunflower · Kotlin

    Sunflower is Google's official Android sample app, a gardening app that demonstrates how to migrate a View-based Android app (Material 2) to Jetpack Compose (Material 3).

  12. 15

    material-components-android

    17.4Kmaterial-components/material-components-android · Java

    Material Components for Android (MDC-Android) is Google's library of modular, customizable Material Design UI components for building Android apps.

  13. 16

    plaid

    16.2Knickbutcher/plaid · Kotlin

    It's an Android app that pulls in design news and inspiration, written to showcase material design in a real application rather than in isolated demos.

  14. 17

    anko

    15.8KKotlin/anko · Kotlin

    Anko is a Kotlin library that makes Android application development faster and easier: it keeps your code clean and readable and hides the rough edges of the Android SDK designed for Java.

  15. 18

    Android-CleanArchitecture

    15.5Kandroid10/Android-CleanArchitecture · Java

    A sample Android app that shows how to architect an application using Uncle Bob's clean architecture approach — it accompanies Fernando Cejas's series of blog posts on the topic.

  16. 19

    Android

    15.4Kopen-android/Android

    A curated Chinese-language index of popular Android open-source projects, where each entry comes with detailed setup docs and a matching video tutorial so beginners can actually get the code running instead of getting stuck on import errors.

  17. 20

    QMUI_Android

    14.5KTencent/QMUI_Android · Java

    An open-source UI library from Tencent that helps you quickly build Android apps with a design-faithful look, so you spend your time on business logic instead of writing base UI code.

  18. 21

    stf

    14Kopenstf/stf · JavaScript

    STF (Smartphone Test Farm) is a self-hosted web app for remotely debugging and controlling smartphones, smartwatches and other gadgets right from your browser — originally built at CyberAgent to run a lab of 160+ devices.

  19. 22

    Material-Animations

    13.5Klgvalle/Material-Animations · Java

    A sample Android project that explains the Transition Framework through runnable examples: animating activity transitions, shared-element moves and view changes inside one activity.

  20. 23

    uamp

    13.2Kandroid/uamp · Kotlin

    UAMP — the Universal Android Music Player Sample — is Google's sample audio app for Android: a working music player meant to demonstrate how to implement an audio media app.

  21. 24

    Vector

    12.8KJingMatrix/Vector · Kotlin

    Vector is a high-performance ART hooking framework for modern Android. It ships as a Zygisk module and keeps API consistency with the original Xposed, so Xposed-style modules keep working on current devices.

  22. 25

    awesome-adb

    12.5Kmzlogin/awesome-adb

    A comprehensive reference guide to ADB (Android Debug Bridge) usage, covering everything from basic command syntax to device management, app management, file transfer, input simulation, logging, and flashing-related commands.

  23. 26

    awesome-android

    12.4KJStumpp/awesome-android

    A curated list of awesome Android libraries, tools and resources, covering everything from UI components to networking, testing and security.

  24. 27

    AndroidSwipeLayout

    12.3Kdaimajia/AndroidSwipeLayout · Java

    AndroidSwipeLayout is a Java library that lets you add swipeable, interactive panels to Android views, so users can swipe list items (or any view) to reveal hidden actions underneath.

  25. 28

    RxTool

    12.3KTamsiree/RxTool · Kotlin

    A toolbox of utility classes for everyday Android development: payments, QR/barcode scanning, dialogs, GPS location, compression and a stack of custom views, packaged as a Kotlin library.

  26. 29

    matrix

    12.1KTencent/matrix · Java

    Matrix is an APM (Application Performance Management) system developed by WeChat to monitor, locate and analyse performance problems in mobile apps. It runs in production inside WeChat itself.

  27. 30

    MaterialDrawer

    11.6Kmikepenz/MaterialDrawer · Kotlin

    MaterialDrawer is an open-source Android library that adds a flexible navigation drawer to your app — an all-in-one drawer solution following Google's Material Design guidelines, with over 11,000 GitHub stars.

  28. 31

    ImmersionBar

    11.5Kgyf-dev/ImmersionBar · Java

    ImmersionBar is an Android library that manages immersive (full-bleed) status bars and navigation bars, letting you tint status bar text, change navigation bar icon color, and handle things like rotation, notches, and the soft keyboard with minimal code.

  29. 32

    FlycoTabLayout

    11.1KH07000223/FlycoTabLayout · Java

    FlycoTabLayout is an Android UI library that provides ready-made tab layout components for Android apps, available in three kinds: SlidingTabLayout, CommonTabLayout and SegmentTabLayout.

  30. 33

    SlidingMenu

    11Kjfeinstein10/SlidingMenu · Java

    An open source Android library for slide-in navigation menus, the pattern made popular by the Google+, YouTube, and Facebook apps. You embed it in your own Android app.

  31. 34

    androidannotations

    11Kandroidannotations/androidannotations · Java

    AndroidAnnotations is an open-source framework that speeds up Android development. Its own tagline sums it up: 'Fast Android Development. Easy maintenance.'

  32. 35

    timber

    10.9KJakeWharton/timber · Kotlin

    Timber is a logger with a small, extensible API that sits on top of Android's built-in Log class. You add behavior by planting Tree instances instead of calling Log.d/Log.e directly.

  33. 36

    platform_frameworks_base

    10.8Kaosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_base · Java

    This is a GitHub mirror of the 'frameworks/base' repository from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), containing the core Java framework code that powers the Android OS, including system services like the Activity Manager, Window Manager, Package Manager, and the View/UI toolkit.

  34. 37

    JiaoZiVideoPlayer

    10.5Klipangit/JiaoZiVideoPlayer · Java

    JiaoZiVideoPlayer is a highly customizable video player framework for Android: a player view you drop into your app's layout, with support for the system MediaPlayer as well as ExoPlayer and ijkplayer (ffmpeg) kernels.

  35. 38

    MVPArms

    10.2KJessYanCoding/MVPArms · Java

    A common architecture framework for Android apps based on the MVP pattern that pre-integrates mainstream open source projects like Dagger2, RxJava and Retrofit to make development quicker and easier.

  36. 39

    Operit

    8.7KAAswordman/Operit · Kotlin

    Operit is an open-source AI agent platform for Android that connects cloud or local AI models to your phone's system, terminal, browser, files, and project workspaces so the AI can actually perform tasks like file management, coding, and device automation.

  37. 40

    awesome-android-root

    5.2Kawesome-android-root/awesome-android-root · Markdown

    A community-curated knowledge base covering over 650 root apps, Magisk/KernelSU/APatch modules, and LSPosed (Xposed) modules for rooted Android devices, plus step-by-step rooting guides.

  38. 41

    LastWave-Native

    1.8KClash-Projects/LastWave-Native · Kotlin

    LastWave is a native Android music client built on the YouTube Music catalog, combining ad-free streaming with an algorithmic smart playlist generator, real-time synced lyrics, and a universal Last.fm scrobbler.

  39. 42

    kotlin-footguns

    1.4Kmaxrave-dev/kotlin-footguns · Python

    A collection of 224 'agent skills' — markdown files mapping concrete failure modes ('footguns') in Kotlin, Compose Multiplatform and the desktop JVM, mined from a real production music app instead of written from documentation.

  40. 43

    newtube

    522aleixrodriala/newtube · Java

    NewTube is an unofficial YouTube client for Android phones and tablets, built on top of SmartTube (the Android TV app) by @yuliskov. It adds a touch interface, its own player and offline saving to SmartTube's engine.

  41. 44

    VioletToolBox

    451Smart-Paocai/VioletToolBox · C#

    VioletToolBox is a Windows desktop toolbox for Android device flashing, rooting, and ROM management, with about 110 functions covering ADB, Fastboot, EDL (9008 mode), and more, aimed at Chinese Android brands like OPPO, OnePlus, Xiaomi, and Redmi.

  42. 45

    DiPlay

    115carlito12345/DiPlay · Kotlin

    DiPlay is an independent CarPlay receiver app that runs on compatible Android head units, letting an iPhone's CarPlay screen be mirrored wired or wirelessly without an Apple-certified dongle. This fork adds generic audio coordination, map projection, and Geely-specific vehicle integration.

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