wasabeef/awesome-android-ui

Awesome Android UI is a curated reference list of open-source Android UI and UX libraries, organized by visual category so that Android developers can quickly find the right component for what they want to build. It is not a software package you install, it is a Markdown document that functions as a searchable directory of ready-made visual components. The problem it solves is discoverability. Android development has a rich ecosystem of third-party UI libraries, but finding them requires knowing where to look. This list organizes hundreds of libraries by what they visually do, with screenshots and animated GIF previews for most entries so you can see exactly what each one looks like before following the link to the library itself. The categories cover the full spectrum of what you might encounter in app design: custom layout containers including sliding panels, expandable layouts, and swipe-back gestures, button variants with animated states, list and grid adapters with fancy effects, ViewPager components for swipeable screens, text labels and form fields, image loading and transformation libraries, seek bars and sliders, progress indicators, navigation menus, action bars, custom dialogs, calendars, charting and graph components, parallax scrolling effects, blur and visual effects, and a general "other" section for everything else. There is also a dedicated section for Jetpack Compose, Google's newer declarative UI framework for Android. Each entry shows the library name as a clickable link, its license, and a demo image or GIF. You would use this list at the beginning of an Android project or feature when you want to know what polished UI components are already available rather than building from scratch. There is no tech stack, it is Markdown prose readable on GitHub, requiring no installation.