The Android & iOS Alternative Library and Tool Collection

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Programming Language

iOS	Android
Swift	Kotlin
Objective-C	Java

IDE

iOS	Android
Xcode	Android Studio

                                                  | ~~[Eclipse ADT](http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/11/support-ended-for-eclipse-android.html)~~ (** Support Ended for Eclipse Android Developer Tools)

Dependency Manager and Build Tools

iOS	Android
Swift Package Manager	Gradle
Carthage
CocoaPods

Network Communication

1. HTTP / REST Communication

iOS	Android
Alamofire	OkHttp
Moya	Retrofit

                                                  | [Fuel](https://github.com/kittinunf/Fuel)

2. Image Caching

iOS	Android
SDWebImage	Glide
Kingfisher	Picasso
Nuke

3. MQTT (Message Queue)

iOS	Android
Moscapsule	Paho

4. TCP/IP, UDP

iOS	Android
CocoaAsyncSocket	Kryonet

Parsing

1. JSON

iOS	Android
Argo	Gson
ObjectMapper

2. XML

iOS	Android
Ono (斧)
Fuzi (斧子)

Logging

iOS	Android
CocoaLumberjack	Timber

                                                                  | [Hugo](https://github.com/JakeWharton/hugo)

Persistence

1. Key-value storage / NoSQL

iOS	Android
Realm	Realm

                                                  | [Paper](https://github.com/pilgr/Paper)
                                                  | [SnappyDB](https://github.com/nhachicha/SnappyDB)
                                                  | [Couchbase Mobile](http://www.couchbase.com/nosql-databases/couchbase-mobile)
                                                  | [Icepick](https://github.com/frankiesardo/icepick) (save&restore instance state)

2. Key-value storage / NoSQL

iOS	Android
MagicalRecord	SugarORM

                                                              | [GreenDAO](https://github.com/greenrobot/greenDAO)
                                                              | [ActiveAndroid](http://www.activeandroid.com/)

3. File management

iOS	Android

                                                  | [Android Simple Storage](https://github.com/sromku/android-simple-storage)
                                                  | [Android External File Writer](https://github.com/PrashamTrivedi/AndroidExternalFileWriter)

User Interface

1. UI collections

iOS	Android
Awesome iOS UI	Awesome Android UI

2. Animation

iOS	Android
AFViewShaker	Circular Tools

                                                              | [Android View Animations](https://github.com/daimajia/AndroidViewAnimations)

3. Charts

iOS	Android
iOS Charts	MP Android Chart

                                                              | [Android Charts](https://github.com/dacer/AndroidCharts)
                                                              | [AChartEngine](https://github.com/ddanny/achartengine)

4. Custom Menu

iOS	Android
ECSlidingViewController	AndroidResideMenu

5. Loading

iOS	Android
MBProgressHUD	Circular Progress Button

6. Validation

iOS	Android

                                                  | [Android Saripaar](https://github.com/ragunathjawahar/android-saripaar)

Debugging

iOS	Android
FLEX	Stetho

                                                  | [LeakCanary](https://github.com/square/leakcanary)

Crash Reporting

iOS	Android
Fabric.IO	Fabric.IO

Analytics

iOS	Android
Analytics for iOS	Analytics for Android
Mixpanel	Mixpanel

Testing

iOS	Android
Kiwi	Robolectric
Specta	Espresso
Quick	Mckito
KIF	Awsome Android Testing
Subliminal
Calabah

Programming

1. Event Handlers

iOS	Android
SwiftEventBus	EventBus

                                                                | [Otto](https://github.com/square/otto)

2. Dependency Injection

iOS	Android
Typhoon	Dagger 2

3. Reactive Programming

iOS	Android
RxSwift	RxJava
ReactiveCocoa	RxAndroid

4. Util libs

iOS	Android

                                                  | [ButterKnife](http://jakewharton.github.io/butterknife/) (View Injection)
                                                  | [Android Annotation](https://github.com/excilys/androidannotations)
                                                  | [Guava](https://github.com/google/guava)
                                                  | [Greenrobot Common](https://github.com/greenrobot/greenrobot-common)
                                                  | [Mortar](https://github.com/square/mortar)
                                                  | [Flow](https://github.com/square/flow)
                                                  | [Device Year Class](https://github.com/facebook/device-year-class)

5. Date Formatters

iOS	Android
ISO 8601 Date Formatter	Joda Time

                                                                            | [ThreeTenABP](https://github.com/JakeWharton/ThreeTenABP)

Tools and Collections

iOS	Android
Cocoa Controls	Awsome Android

                                                  | [Android Must Have Libraries](https://guides.codepath.com/android/Must-Have-Libraries)
                                                  | [Android Arsenal](https://android-arsenal.com/)