10 shortcuts can help you to complete your project within deadline without doing much coding in android

Today I am going to write some shortcuts that can really help you to boost up your performance and can help you to save from labour works . I am listing out some important libraries and plugins here.

1:Butterknife( View "injection" library for Android ):

Field and method binding for Android views which uses annotation processing to generate boilerplate code for you.

• Eliminate findViewById calls by using @Bind on fields.
• Group multiple views in a list or array. Operate on all of them at once with actions, setters, or properties.
• Eliminate anonymous inner-classes for listeners by annotating methods with @OnClick and others.
• Eliminate resource lookups by using resource annotations on fields.

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:7.0.1'   
}

2:Gson library : 

 Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects ( Pojo or JavaBean or Model class etc) into their JSON representation and vise versa .  Gson can work with arbitrary Java objects including pre-existing objects that you do not have source-code of.
To use this you need to add Gradle dependency your project gradle.

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
  
    compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.2.4'   
}

3: Json To Pojo (Model) generator : 

To use gson we need to create some pojo( Model ) classes. We have to write lot of key variables name with respective datatypes. to Avoid this you can use jsonschema2pojo , using this you can generate model classes with annotation for different usage i.e gson , Jackson etc.

4: Android Parcelable Code generator :

You can also make any class parcelable without writing any code by using parcelable code generator plug in which you need to download from you plug in section. 

Ubantu/Window android studio :

File ->Settings-> plugins-> search "parcelable code generator" -> download and restart your android studio.

Go to the class and right at anywhere and pick generate -> at bottom choose parcelable -> see the result

5: Android ButterKnife Zelezny: 

To generate generate Butterknife annotation automatically we have plugin for this as well .

Ubantu/Window android studio :

File ->Settings-> plugins-> search "Android ButterKnife Zelezny" -> download and restart your android studio.

Go to Activity or adapter where we had inflated layout and right over layout -> generate-> pick butterknife option to generate all view variables w.r.t there id's Bingo.

6: Glide (The Image loader) :

Glide  is very powerful image loader , has lot of image loading options you can see all the Example codes here.

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:3.5.2'
}

7: Android Asynchronous Http Client:

For rest api call you can use most powerful library i.e android-async-http

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    
    compile 'com.loopj.android:android-async-http:1.4.9'   
}

8: calligraphy:

This library also help to set custom font throughout your project by setting it at Application only.

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
   
    compile 'uk.co.chrisjenx:calligraphy:2.1.0'   
}

9:ActiveAndroid:

It is replacement of Sqlite database . This library also help you to create database by using model (pojo)classes only.

10: Android Drawable Importer :

 Plugin also help you to import drawable with suitable icon name and also manage them to w.r.t there folders i.e. hdpi,xhdpi,mdpi etc.

Please feel free to comment and ask queries.

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