Open-source alternatives to SuperTextView

ChatKit is a library of reusable native Android components and frameworks designed for rendering chat visuals, message threads, and media pickers. It provides a set of pre-built UI elements to facilitate the development of messaging interfaces, including conversation lists and text input fields. The toolkit includes specialized media management capabilities, such as a full-screen image viewer with pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to-dismiss gestures, as well as mechanisms for importing photos and videos from device storage. It also features dynamic selection dialogs that adjust their layout based on t

ExpandableTextView is a reusable Android UI component and a custom extension of the standard Android TextView. It is designed to manage the display of long text blocks by toggling them between truncated and full-length states. The component implements a read-more interaction that triggers animated height transitions to expand or collapse content. It uses internal state management to switch between read-more and read-less labels based on the current visibility of the text. This view handles text truncation logic and dynamic line manipulation to ensure a compact layout while maintaining the ab

Ticker is a custom Android UI component that implements rolling character animations to simulate mechanical odometer displays. It provides a scrolling text view designed to animate transitions between different strings using vertical motion. The component utilizes a custom drawing loop and character-array sequence mapping to control the vertical scrolling path. It supports wrapped animation paths to create seamless loops and includes mechanisms to handle translation offsets when transitioning between strings of varying lengths.

BoomMenu is an Android radial menu library and UI animation framework designed to create expandable floating action buttons. It provides a set of programmable custom view components that reveal submenu items in radial, horizontal, or vertical patterns using 3D transformations. The library distinguishes itself through a 3D-transformation animation engine that utilizes non-linear easing, scaling, and rotation to create depth during menu expansion. It includes specialized layout patterns for share-style menus and a coordinate-based mapping system for precise item displacement. The framework cov

AsyncDisplayKit is an asynchronous UI framework and performance library for iOS. It provides a collection of performant alternatives to standard views, allowing developers to build responsive interfaces by offloading layout and rendering tasks to background threads. The framework is centered around a declarative layout engine based on a flexbox model, which calculates element positions and sizes asynchronously. It utilizes a node-based abstraction to wrap native views, enabling the instantiation and configuration of UI hierarchies on background threads to prevent main thread blocking. The sy

AndroidNetworking is an HTTP networking library for Android that handles the full lifecycle of network communication, from sending requests to parsing responses and caching data. It provides a unified interface for executing GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, and PATCH requests, with support for both synchronous and asynchronous execution, and includes built-in JSON response parsing that converts server responses directly into Java objects or lists. The library distinguishes itself through a set of integrated capabilities that go beyond basic request execution. It manages file downloads and upload

BigImageViewer is an Android image zooming library and UI component designed for displaying high-resolution images with pan and zoom capabilities while maintaining low memory usage. It functions as a unified loading wrapper that integrates with third-party providers such as Glide, Picasso, and Fresco to fetch and cache images from network or local sources. The library includes an animated image renderer that supports GIF and WebP formats through header-based detection. It facilitates image gallery navigation using shared element transitions to create smooth visual movement between thumbnails

XUI is a native Android UI framework and component library designed for building application interfaces. It provides a comprehensive suite of native layouts, input fields, and navigation elements, supported by a tiered theme management system for defining global visual attributes and responsive styles. The framework distinguishes itself through a specialized set of custom views and interaction toolkits, including high-performance calendars, data visualization rendering, and a variety of stylized buttons with integrated timers and visual effects. It also includes integrated media processing ca

QuestPDF is a C# PDF generation library and layout engine used to create structured documents, reports, and invoices. It utilizes a fluent API and a component-based layout approach to convert code into high-fidelity PDF and XPS files. The library distinguishes itself with a dedicated layout debugger that provides real-time previews, hot-reload capabilities, and visual boundary tools to map rendered elements back to source code. It also functions as an accessibility tool, providing semantic tagging and navigational aids to ensure documents comply with international accessibility and archival s

MarqueeView is an Android custom view library used to create scrolling or flipping text announcements and dynamic text tickers. It functions as a specialized interface component for displaying rotating sequences of messages and interactive notification widgets. The library distinguishes itself through the use of dynamic layout inflation to inject custom resource files at runtime. It manages programmatic animation sequencing for entry and exit transitions and utilizes a callback system to map user touch events on visual elements to specific data indices. The project covers broad capabilities

ShineButton is an Android UI animation library that provides customizable button components with integrated light-sweep and particle animations. It functions as a view component extension for Android interfaces to draw user attention through interactive visual effects. The library features a system for creating light-sweep animations and vibrant particle effects that trigger during user interaction. It allows for the definition of button silhouettes through custom image masking and the application of vector drawables. Visual styling is managed through configuration parameters that adjust the

PageIndicatorView is an Android custom view designed to track and visualize page progress within sliding layout systems. It serves as a visual indicator for ViewPager, synchronizing the active page marker and total page count with the state of a page slider. The component provides interactive visual effects and motion primitives that animate transitions during user swipe gestures. These include sliding or scaling effects that respond to touch movements to indicate the current position in a sequence. The project covers the implementation of page indicators for mobile navigation and onboarding

BGARefreshLayout-Android is a layout library for Android applications that implements pull-to-refresh and pull-up-to-load-more patterns. It serves as a specialized view container and list loading framework designed to manage loading indicators and status text during data fetching operations. The library distinguishes itself by supporting a customizable view hierarchy that allows for the integration of a dedicated advertisement space at the top of the layout, positioned above the scrollable content. It provides a view holder system that enables the creation of bespoke visual effects and animat

MaterialSearchView is an Android UI component that provides a search interface following Material Design guidelines. It functions as a reusable visual element for implementing search bars and query inputs within mobile applications. The component includes a search suggestion provider to display predefined query options as users type and built-in voice search integration to convert spoken commands into text input. The project covers search interface development and component styling, allowing for the customization of colors and icons to match specific application themes.

CoordinatorTabLayout is a custom Android user interface component that integrates tabbed navigation with folding headers and paging container synchronization. Built for the native Android view system, it implements Material Design patterns to create immersive screens where header content collapses as the user scrolls. The component synchronizes tab selection events with a paging container to update visible content. It manages the coordination between a tab navigation bar and a folding header, ensuring that scrolling events and page transitions remain aligned. The layout includes capabilities

CircleProgress is a custom view library for Android that provides reusable UI widgets for rendering circular, donut, or arc-shaped progress indicators. It is designed to help developers visualize task completion status and data progress within native mobile application interfaces. The component allows for the display of custom text labels and inner graphical assets alongside the progress indicator. It functions by manually calculating paths and arcs on a canvas surface, translating progress percentages into geometric angles to ensure accurate positioning within a circular frame. The library

This project is a collection of reference implementations and experimental user interface components. It serves as a gallery of examples demonstrating advanced animations, custom graphic rendering, and non-standard interaction techniques. The repository provides showcases for high-fidelity motion, including 3D transformations, image sequence animations, and fluid page transitions. It includes a library of graphic experiments that use canvas drawing and vector paths to render particle systems and data visualizations. The implementation surface covers a range of advanced UI capabilities, such

This project is a frontend visualization library and gallery of interactive web examples. It provides a collection of implementations that demonstrate advanced visual effects through the use of stylesheets, canvas drawing surfaces, and three-dimensional graphics libraries. The collection specifically features implementations for visualizing artificial intelligence outputs and complex data patterns. It includes specialized galleries for three-dimensional scenes and spatial objects, as well as a showreel of stylistic motion effects and interface designs. The library covers a broad range of ren

Android-PullToRefresh is an Android view component and library designed to implement pull-to-refresh functionality and end-of-list detection for scrollable views within Android applications. It acts as a custom view that manages the animations and listener triggers necessary to update content via user interaction. The library provides mechanisms for triggering refresh actions when a user pulls from the boundaries of a scrollable view and detecting when a user reaches the bottom of a list to facilitate data pagination. It allows for the customization of the refresh indicator's visual theme and

This is a layout library for Android applications that implements the CSS Flexible Box layout model. It provides a view container and engine that arrange child views by distributing space and aligning content according to a flexible box model. The framework enables the creation of responsive user interfaces that automatically adjust element positioning, wrapping, and growth based on available screen dimensions and orientations. The system includes capabilities for adaptive layout workflows, dynamic element alignment, and a virtualized rendering system for recycling views to display large dat

Litho is an Android declarative UI framework and component library used to build user interfaces through a declarative API and immutable state. It functions as an asynchronous layout engine that maps components to a structured view hierarchy to automate view updates. The framework optimizes rendering performance by computing element positions on background threads to prevent blocking the main UI thread. It further improves efficiency by flattening nested view hierarchies and caching layout results. The system includes capabilities for state reconciliation, component recycling, and the render

Processing is a creative coding environment and Java graphics library designed for writing visual sketches that produce interactive 2D and 3D graphics and animations. It runs on the Java Virtual Machine, using an OpenGL-based hardware-accelerated rendering pipeline, and operates on a sketch-based execution model where programs run as continuous loops of setup and draw functions with event-driven input handling for keyboard, mouse, and window interactions. The environment distinguishes itself as a cross-platform sketch tool that runs visual programs unchanged on desktop, web, Android, and Rasp

FlatUIKit is a flat design framework and component library for iOS. It provides a set of reusable interface elements and styling tools to implement a minimal aesthetic across native mobile applications. The kit replaces standard iOS controls with a collection of pre-styled components, including buttons, text fields, and segmented controls. It utilizes a predefined flat color palette, custom font integration, and a dedicated icon set to ensure a cohesive visual identity. The framework covers a wide range of UI elements, including customizable input controls, table cells, and navigation compon

Blurkit-android is a library for applying real-time image transformations and blur-behind effects to views and bitmaps within Android applications. It functions as an image processing tool to transform visual content into blurred versions using optimized rendering methods. The project focuses on high-performance background blur rendering, enabling the creation of layered layouts with adjustable blur radius. It achieves this through a combination of hardware-accelerated drawing, bitmap downsampling, and the use of a compute framework to parallelize calculations across the GPU and multi-core CP

LiveCharts2 is a .NET data visualization library and cross-platform charting toolkit. It provides a collection of interactive charts, maps, and gauges designed to represent complex datasets across various .NET user interface frameworks and operating systems. The project implements a cross-framework UI charting approach, using a single API that remains consistent across different .NET UI technology stacks. This allows for the creation of responsive visual representations and interactive dashboards that react to user input and state changes. The toolkit covers real-time data mapping and the re

WilliamChart is an Android data visualization library and toolkit used to render interactive charts and graphs within Android applications. It functions as a UI component library for integrating data-driven dashboards and metrics into Android layouts. The library includes a specialized component for representing proportional categorical data as donut charts, which are circular charts with hollow centers. It provides a drawing engine that uses low-level APIs to map numerical data to pixel coordinates on the screen.

MBProgressHUD is an Objective-C UI component and progress HUD library for iOS. It provides a screen-blocking activity indicator overlay that informs users of ongoing background processes using customizable icons and status labels. The library manages translucent interface layers to provide background task feedback and overlay management. It visualizes the completion percentage of long-running tasks through a dynamic overlay that prevents user interaction until a process completes.