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POJOs, and with a single line of code, you can parse the JSON using this library. Use GSON

along with ActiveAndroid and you can reduce the development time considerably.

ebsite:http://code.google.com/p/google-gson/

Crouton

This is a neat replacement for toasts. It is nicely implemented and highly customisable. It gives

your application a notification system which is cleaner and more aesthetic than native toasts, and

is rightly named croutons.

ebsite:https://github.com/keyboardsurfer/Crouton

iewpagerindicator

This is another cool library from the developer of Actionbar. It makes the viewpager more usable

and enables easier navigation between fragments. Users have a clear idea of where they have

navigated.

ebsite:http://viewpagerindicator.com/

Rajawali

This is one of my favourites. If you are thinking of developing live wallpapers or 3D games, this

library might be very handy. One can easily export the 3D models from tools like Blender and

render them on the devices using openGLES with this library. Adding animations like rotation, or

scaling on user events is a cakewalk.

ebsite:https://github.com/MasDennis/Rajawali

Universal Image Loader

Handling large bitmaps has given nightmares to many Android developers. This lightweight

library saves you the effort of handling bitmaps and provides great support for caching images.

One can easily figure out how to decode the bitmaps in the app. Definitely a lifesaver of a library.

ebsite:https://github.com/nostra13/Android-Universal-Image-Loader

Robotium

This is an automation testing framework for Android. Developers and testers can generate test

cases and ensure that minor changes do not introduce new bugs. It might seem to be an

overhead in the early stages of development but helps keep maintenance work easy.

ebsite:http://code.google.com/p/robotium/

ZXing

This quickly adds support for scanning bar codes in an Android application. Easy to configure

and use. It has a high scanning efficiency.ebsite: http://code.google.com/p/zxing/

Tesseract

Tesseract is a highly optimised optical character reader library available for Android. This is a

cross-platform library and will require some basic knowledge of using NDK in an Android app.

ebsite:http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

AChartEngine

This plots neat and elegant graphs in various styles. The javadocs might not be great, and it

might not be all that easy to develop with only a few resources available and a large number of

classes, but the output is definitely worth the effort.

ebsite:http://www.achartengine.org/

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