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Top Android CardView Libraries

Top Android CardView Libraries.

CardView is a popular UI component in Android that allows you to display information or content in a card-like format. It provides a clean and modern look to your app's user interface. While Android provides a built-in CardView widget, there are several third-party libraries that offer additional features and customization options. In this tutorial, we will explore some of the top CardView libraries available for Android development.

Libraries​

  1. Material Components for Android: This library is an official implementation of Material Design components by Google. It includes the CardView widget, which provides a customizable card-like container. You can add it to your project by adding the following dependency in your app-level build.gradle file:
implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.4.0'

Here's an example usage of CardView from Material Components for Android in Kotlin:

<com.google.android.material.card.MaterialCardView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:cardCornerRadius="8dp"
    app:cardElevation="4dp"
    app:cardBackgroundColor="#FFFFFF">

    <!-- Add your card content here -->

</com.google.android.material.card.MaterialCardView>
  1. CardView by Square: This library offers a CardView implementation with additional features like rounded corners and shadow customization. You can add it to your project by adding the following dependency in your app-level build.gradle file:
implementation 'com.squareup.cardview:cardview:1.0.0'

Here's an example usage of CardView by Square in Java:

<com.squareup.cardview.CardView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:cardCornerRadius="8dp"
    app:cardElevation="4dp"
    app:cardBackgroundColor="#FFFFFF">

    <!-- Add your card content here -->

</com.squareup.cardview.CardView>
  1. CardView by MaterialCardView: This library is an extension of the Material Components for Android library, providing additional customization options for the CardView widget. You can add it to your project by adding the following dependency in your app-level build.gradle file:
implementation 'io.supercharge:material-cardview:1.0.0'

Here's an example usage of CardView by MaterialCardView in Kotlin:

<io.supercharge.shimmerlayout.ShimmerLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:cardCornerRadius="8dp"
    app:cardElevation="4dp"
    app:cardBackgroundColor="#FFFFFF">

    <!-- Add your card content here -->

</io.supercharge.shimmerlayout.ShimmerLayout>

Additional Libraries​

Here are a few more CardView libraries that you may find useful:

  • FlexboxLayout: A powerful library by Google that allows you to create flexible and responsive layouts. It provides a CardView-like component called FlexboxLayout, which can be used to create cards with dynamic sizing and positioning. You can find more information and usage examples in the FlexboxLayout GitHub repository.

  • Cardslib: This library offers a wide range of customizable CardView-like components, such as Card, CardGrid, and CardList. It provides various styling options and animations. You can find more information and usage examples in the Cardslib GitHub repository.

  • RecyclerViewCards: This library combines the power of RecyclerView and CardView to create a flexible and efficient way of displaying cards in a list. It offers features like swipe gestures, drag-and-drop, and animations. You can find more information and usage examples in the RecyclerViewCards GitHub repository.

  • ahoy-onboarding - Android onboarding library..

  • MaterialList - An Android library aimed to get the beautiful CardViews that Google shows at its official design specifications.

  • CardViewPlus - A library to make animated CardView elevation in Android.

  • facilis - A sleek, out of the box, easy to understand and use, swipe gesture based Navigational Library for android..

  • Expandable-Recyclerview-List-Android - A simple library to make it easy Expandable Recycler View List in Android .

  • cardview-v7 - Modified version of Android support cardview-v7 library.

  • CardView_android - making cardviews on android using Libraries.

  • cardview-android - Testing cardview with recyclerview. Data-model movie and Picasso library for android are used on this example..

  • FlexibleCardViewDemo - Mobile Application Development - Flexible CardView - Android Libraries.

  • android-animations-recyclerview-cardview - Used Glide library and Lottie animation to create an UI based on a RecyclerView.

  • CardViewCompat - A library in Android for customizing the CardView..

  • AndroidInternity-2018-TeamA-ShivamKapoor-PixerArt - PixerArt is photo-library app where you can search photos and download the photos of you choice. .

  • CardViewGlide - Android Studio Project of an app which uses Glide library to load images from URL array into Card View.

  • stackedcardsview - StackedCardsView is an android library to create stacked cards like effect on normal ViewGroups..

  • AndroidPagingLibrary - In this project we used Retrofit Library and Gson for fetching and parsing JSON from URL, Glide, Paging, RecyclerView, CardView and ViewModel..

These are just a few examples of the many CardView libraries available for Android development. Each library offers its own set of features and customization options, so feel free to explore them and choose the one that best fits your project's requirements.

I hope this tutorial helps you in incorporating CardView libraries into your Android app.