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Library	Description
activity *	Access composable APIs built on top of Activity.
ads	Get an advertising ID with or without Play Services.
annotation	Expose metadata that helps tools and other developers understand your app's code.
appcompat *	Allows access to new APIs on older API versions of the platform (many using Material Design).
appsearch *	Build custom in-app search capabilities for your users.
arch.core	Helper for other arch dependencies, including JUnit test rules that can be used with LiveData.
asynclayoutinflater	Inflate layouts asynchronously to avoid jank in the UI.
autofill	Improve autofill accuracy via extending hints.
benchmark	Accurately measure your code's performance within Android Studio.
biometric	Authenticate with biometrics or device credentials, and perform cryptographic operations.
browser	Display webpages in the user's default browser.
car-app	Build navigation, parking, and charging apps for Android Auto.
camera *	Build mobile camera apps.
cardview	Implement the Material Design card pattern with round corners and drop shadows.
collection	Reduce the memory impact of existing and new collections that are small.
compose *	Define your UI programmatically with composable functions that describe its shape and data dependencies.
compose.animation	Build animations in their Jetpack Compose applications to enrich the user experience.
compose.compiler	Transform @Composable functions and enable optimizations with a Kotlin compiler plugin.
compose.foundation	Write Jetpack Compose applications with ready to use building blocks and extend foundation to build your own design system pieces.
compose.material	Build Jetpack Compose UIs with ready to use Material Design Components. This is the higher level entry point of Compose, designed to provide components that match those described at www.material.io.
compose.runtime	Fundamental building blocks of Compose's programming model and state management, and core runtime for the Compose Compiler Plugin to target.
compose.ui	Fundamental components of compose UI needed to interact with the device, including layout, drawing, and input.
concurrent	Move tasks off the main thread with coroutines and take advantage of ListenableFuture.
constraintlayout	Position and size widgets in a flexible way with relative positioning.
contentpager	Load and page across ContentProvider data in a background thread.
coordinatorlayout	Position top-level application widgets, such as AppBarLayout and FloatingActionButton.
core	Target the latest platform features and APIs while also supporting older devices.
cursoradapter	Expose Cursor data to a ListView widget.
customview	Implement custom views.
databinding *	Bind UI components in your layouts to data sources in your app using a declarative format.
datastore	Store data asynchronously, consistently, and transactionally, overcoming some of the drawbacks of SharedPreferences
documentfile	View a file document.
drawerlayout	Implement a Material Design drawer widget.
dynamicanimation	Create smooth animations with a physics-based animation API.
emoji	Display emoji in current and older devices.
emoji2	Display emoji in current and older devices.
enterprise	Create enterprise-ready applications.
exifinterface	Read and write image file EXIF tags.
fragment *	Segment your app into multiple, independent screens that are hosted within an Activity.
games	Use the Android Game SDK natively in your app to perform complex games tasks, like Frame Pacing.
gridlayout	Implement a grid layout.
health	Create performant health applications in a platform agnostic way.
heifwriter	Encode an image or image collection in HEIF format using the available codecs on the Android device.
hilt *	Extend the functionality of Dagger Hilt to enable dependency injection of certain classes from the androidx libraries.
interpolator	Use animation interpolators on older platforms.
jetifier	A standalone tool that migrates a library's dependencies on the deprecated support library to equivalent AndroidX dependencies.
leanback	Write apps for Android TV devices using dpad-friendly widgets and template fragments.
legacy	This artifact and its classes are deprecated. Starting with Android 8, background check restrictions make this class no longer useful.
lifecycle *	Build lifecycle-aware components that can adjust behavior based on the current lifecycle state of an activity or fragment.
loader	Load data for your UI that survives configuration changes.
localbroadcastmanager	This artifact and its classes are deprecated. Use LiveData or reactive streams instead.
media	Share media contents and controls with other apps. Superseded by media2.
media2	Share media contents and controls with other apps.
mediarouter	Enable media display and playback on remote receiver devices using a common user interface.
multidex	Deploy applications with multiple dex files on pre-Android 5 devices.
navigation *	Build and structure your in-app UI, handle deep links, and navigate between screens.
paging *	Load data in pages, and present it in a RecyclerView.
palette	Extract representative color palettes from images.
percentlayout	This artifact and its classes are deprecated. Use ConstraintLayout and associated layouts instead.
preference	Build interactive settings screens without needing to interact with device storage or manage the UI.
print	Print photos, docs, and other graphics and images from your app.
profileinstaller	Enables libraries to prepopulate ahead of time compilation traces to be read by ART.
recommendation	Promote content to the Android TV Launcher home screen.
recyclerview	Display large sets of data in your UI while minimizing memory usage.
remotecallback	Create a wrapper that makes it easier for developers to provide a PendingIntent.
resourceinspection	Surface the attributes of custom views in Android Studio’s Live Layout Inspector.
room *	Create, store, and manage persistent data backed by a SQLite database.
savedstate	Write pluggable components that save the UI state when a process dies, and restore it when the process restarts.
security	Safely manage keys and encrypt files and sharedpreferences.
sharetarget	Provide backwards compatibility for using shortcuts as direct share targets.
slice	Display templated UI elements outside your app.
slidingpanelayout	Implement a sliding pane UI pattern.
startup	Implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.
sqlite	Work with local SQLite databases. If possible, use Room instead.
swiperefreshlayout	Implement the swipe-to-refresh UI pattern.
test *	Testing in Android.
textclassifier	Identifies conversations, links, selections, and other similar constructs in text.
tracing	Write trace events to the system trace buffer.
transition	Animate motion in the UI with starting and ending layouts.
tvprovider	Provide Android TV channels.
vectordrawable	Render vector graphics.
versionedparcelable	Provides a stable and compact binary serialization format that can be passed across processes or persisted safely.
viewpager	Display Views or Fragments in a swipeable format. If possible, use viewpager2 instead.
viewpager2	Display Views or Fragments in a swipeable format.
wear	Create applications for Wear OS by Google smartwatches.
wear-tiles	Create applications for Wear OS by Google smartwatches.
webkit	Work with modern WebView APIs on Android 5 and above.
window	Helps support different device form factors such as foldable devices.
work *	Schedule and execute deferrable, constraint-based background tasks.
Material Design Components *	Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for Android.