Awesome Android Tools 🛠

An awesome list that curates the best tools and libraries for Android Development.

Contents

• Screen mirroring
• Debugging
• Proxy
• Development
• Linters and Static Code Analysis
• Java
• Gradle

Screen mirroring

• scrcpy (Free)
• vysor

Debugging

• Stetho. Debug brdige for android apps
  Allows developers have access to the app from the Chrome Developer Tools. Can be especially useful when debugging WebViews.
• Chucker
  Chucker inspects HTTP(S) requests/responses fired by your Android.
• stackzy
  A cross-platform desktop application to identify libraries used inside an android application. Made possible by Compose Desktop

Proxy

• Charles Debugging Proxy
  Charles enables a developer to view all of the HTTP(S) traffic between the machine and the Internet.
• mitmproxy
  mitmproxy is a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy.
• ZAP proxy
  The world’s most widely used web app scanner. Free and open source. Actively maintained by a dedicated international team of volunteers.

Security

• medusa
  MEDUSA is an Extensible and Modularised framework that automates processes and techniques practiced during the dynamic analysis of Android Applications.
• Apktool
  A tool for reverse engineering Android apk files
• Androguard
  Androguard is mainly a tool written in python to play with : * Dex/Odex (Dalvik virtual machine) (.dex) (disassemble, decompilation), * APK (Android application) (.apk), * Android's binary xml (.xml), * Android Resources (.arsc).

Development

• Avocado
  SVG optimization and size shirnking.
• Android Resources Export
• Image Baker
  Make images' hdmi, xhdpi, xxhdp, etc. in one click.
• Piranha
  Piranha is a tool to automatically refactor code related to stale flags

Linters and Static Code Analysis

• Detekt
  Code Quality, complexity reports.
• ktlint
  Kotlin “no-decision” linter.
• SonarLint
  Code Quality, Code Security issues

Java

• NullAway

Gradle

• Ruler
  Gradle plugin which helps you analyze the size of your Android apps.

• Seal
  Seal is a Gradle Plugin to resolve AndroidManifest.xml merge conflicts, powered by New Variant/Artifact API & Polyfill.

• ApkScale
  A Gradle plugin to measure the app size impact of Android libraries

• Gradle profiler
  A tool to automate the gathering of profiling and benchmarking information for Gradle builds.