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Trinea/android-open-project
A categorized collection of Android Open Source Projects, More powerful web version:
A massive markdown list of Android open-source libraries organized by category — UI components, networking, image loading, testing tools, and so on. It was the go-to reference for Android developers around 2013–2016. The linked web version at codekk.com was the real product; the GitHub repo is essentially a mirror of that.
The categorization is genuinely thorough — ListView variants, ViewPager extensions, image loaders, DI frameworks, event buses, all grouped sensibly rather than dumped in one pile. It captured a useful snapshot of the Android library ecosystem before Jetpack homogenized everything. The multi-language support (English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese) reflects serious effort at the time. Star count alone tells you it was the first place Android devs looked before adding a dependency.
The repo is essentially unmaintained — most linked libraries are themselves abandoned, many predating RecyclerView and material design. Half the demo APK links are dead, and the external image hosting (Flickr, qiniudn) is mostly gone, leaving broken images throughout. There is no signal about which entries are still viable versus deprecated; a reader has to independently verify every single recommendation. This is a historical artifact, not something you'd use to pick a dependency in 2024.