I think it was in reference to it being a highly opinionated list. Especially since I've been developing for Android since 2010, and most of the actual "best libraries" were absent from this list.
Also, I've never heard of CloudRails (though they do seem interesting for certain use cases), but I'd never put them on a par with Retrofit, and leave out some of the more established names.
Exactly this. I've never heard of CloudRails, from my own development experience, on conferences or meetups or posts. Retrofit (1&2, Volley, those are the libraries that deserve mention there. "Database" category having just two libraries is like someone didn't want to bother, since Android has a lot of ORM libraries and also databases like Realm.
Date & Time doesn't even have Joda-Time for android, DI links to Dagger which is deprecated in favour of Dagger 2, Functional includes only Retrolabmda, no even mention of RxJava and all the libraries surrounding it, Camera is missing some most popular camera libraries, Logging doesn't include the most used one - Timber, Image doesn't include Picasso or UIL... I don't feel like scrolling anymore, there is a lot missing, especially since the list is called "Best Android Libraries".
Something small I wish I'd known when I started doing Android development - if you need to display images, use an image loading library (Picasso or Glide). It'll save you from dealing with a lot of quirks, some vendor specific.
This list is missing the Support, Appcompat, and Design libraries from Google, although to be fair it's practically a given these days that a project will be using them.
LeakCanary is also missing, which is a shame as it's very easy to leak memory in Android by holding onto destroyed Activities. Every project I have installed LeakCanary in for the first time has had at least one memory leak, it's such a useful tool being able to automatically detect and record leaks.
Author of that blog post here:
Thanks for posting it on HN and all that feedback. We wrote this post to provide a nice overview about good libraries our developers stumbled across the last years. So it is definitely not complete and I'm sure that I missed several great libraries. If you have suggestions, please comment here with the library name, quick description and link and I'll add them to the list. Thanks!
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Also, I've never heard of CloudRails (though they do seem interesting for certain use cases), but I'd never put them on a par with Retrofit, and leave out some of the more established names.
I downvoted a sibling comment. Then I read the list, said "I see what you mean", went back an undowned it. Sorry, thecupisblue.
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LeakCanary is also missing, which is a shame as it's very easy to leak memory in Android by holding onto destroyed Activities. Every project I have installed LeakCanary in for the first time has had at least one memory leak, it's such a useful tool being able to automatically detect and record leaks.