A mobile project is typically implemented on both Android and iOS platforms.
Developers typically use different libraries and tools during the development. These teams not always synchronize their "toolbox" because they might work in separate teams or might belong to different subcontractors. However, in several situations it would be very beneficial to use similar tools and libraries during the development for both teams.
Since the beginning of Android and iOS platforms one of our main focus was mobile application development and in this post we share tools and libraries grouped in categories, that we typically use and we highlight the alternatives for Android and iOS platforms.
Please note that this list is not final and we update it frequently!
Network Communication
1. HTTP / REST Communication
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| Alamofire | Retrofit |
2. Image Caching
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
|
SDWebImage Kingfisher |
Glide Picasso |
3. MQTT (Message Queue)
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| Moscapsule | Paho |
4. TCP/IP, UDP
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| CocoaAsyncSocket | Kryonet |
Logging
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| CocoaLumberJack |
Timber Hugo |
Persistence
1. File management
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| - |
Android Simple Storage Android External File Writer |
2. Key-value storage / NoSQL
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| Realm |
Realm Couchbase mobile Paper SnappyDB IcePick (save&restore instance state) |
3. ORM
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| MagicalRecord |
SugarORM GreanDAO ActiveAndroid |
User Interface
1. UI collections
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| Awsome iOS UI | Awesome Android UI |
2. Animation
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| AFViewShaker |
Circular Tools Android View Animations |
3. Charts
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| ios-charts |
MPAndroidChart AndroidCharts AChartEngine |
4. Custom Menu
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| ECSlidingViewController | Android Reside Menu |
5. Loading
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| MBProgressHUD | Circular Progress Button |
6. Validation
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| - | Android Saripaar |
7. Other
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| - | SmartTabLayout |
Debugging
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| FLEX |
Stetho LeakCanary |
Crash Reporting
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| Fabric.IO | Fabric.IO |
Analytics
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
|
Analytics for iOS Mixpanel |
Analytics for Android Mixpanel |
Testing
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
|
Kiwi Specta Quick Kif Subliminal Calabash |
Robolectric Espresso Mockito Awsome Android Testing |
Programming
1. Event Handlers
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| SwiftEventBus | EventBus |
2. Dependency Injection
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| Typhoon | Dagger 2 |
3. Reactive Programming
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
|
RxSwift ReactiveCocoa |
RxAndroid RxJava |
4. Util libs
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| - |
ButterKnife (view injection) Android Annotation Guava Greenrobot-common Mortar Flow Device Year Class |
5. Date Formatters
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| ISO 8601 Date Formatter |
ThreeTenABP Joda-Time |
Tools and Collections
| iOS | Android |
|---|---|
| Cocoa Controls |
Awsome Android Android Must Have Libraries Android Arsenal |
If you would like to contribute please send your thoughts to us via e-mail.
Authors:
Tibor Kántor
Péter Ekler
Balázs Gerlei
