Open-Source Android Apps To Boost Your Development Skills (Part 4)

Clip Stack

(Github | Play Store | Difficulty: Beginner)

A simple, clean and beautiful clipboard manager app for Android. The project is quite small, simple and easy to understand as well.

But the package structure, architecture, naming conventions and coding standards used in this project are not up to the mark. It has been built in a very simple and beginner-friendly way.

Super Clean Master

(Github | Difficulty: Advanced)

If you have ever used an Android device, you surely had the need to clean up some junk data from your device. And Clean Master is one of the most popular choices among all.

This app, as the name suggests, tries to emulate most of the features of Clean Master in a very clean and elegant way. But the overall project is a bit complicated and can take you some time to comprehend everything going on.

Travel Mate

(Github | Difficulty: Intermediate)

If you are looking to build a travel based app and need to heavily rely on location and maps, then this project is probably the best place to start.

The design and the code quality of the app are not up to the mark but the overall app is really good and there are lots of things to learn for a beginner and even an intermediate level Android developer.

KISS

(Github | Play Store | Difficulty: Intermediate)

A simple, super-fast and lightweight launcher application for Android. There are several cool and nifty features to learn from this project.

So if you wanted to make a launcher for Android, this is probably the best way to start. The app is quite small and the project is quite simple to start with.

Turbo Editor

(Github | Play Store | Difficulty: Intermediate)

A simple yet quite powerful text editor application for Android. You can also use this editor to write code and it supports syntax highlighting for different programming languages as well.

I have even tried opening large text files, where most of the applications tend to crash or fail, this app handles them quite gracefully. From this project, you will have a good chance to learn making a very solid and robust text (or code) editor app.

Wally

(Github| Difficulty: Beginner)

A fast, simple and efficient wallpaper app for Android. There are tons of things to learn from this project, especially for a beginner.

The architecture followed in the app is quite good which makes this app really easy to expand and maintain. The goal of this app is quite simple but the approach taken to accomplish the goal is really appreciable.

Pedometer

(Github | Difficulty: Beginner)

A simple, light-weight pedometer app which uses the hardware sensor to calculate the steps taken with almost no impact on the battery performance of the device.

It is a good project to start learning step tracking, but the coding standards and design are not good enough to be followed.

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I have shared several open-source Android apps from various genres to suit almost everyone’s needs. There is also a proper mixture of apps for all kinds of Android developers ranging from the beginners to the more advanced ones.

Source-TechBeacon.