Awesome top 30 Android tools to develop Android apps

In this article, I am going to share some of the best top 30 Android tools to improve your development productivity and build better applications. I have been personally using these tools for quite some time now and have found them to be really useful and satisfying.

These tools have helped me save a lot of precious time out from my day-to-day development life and have also helped me deliver significantly better and more high-quality apps.

1

FlowUp

An amazing tool for Android which can help you to track the overall performance of your app and get in-depth insights on various key performance metrics like FPS, memory usage, CPU usage, disk usage and much more from your live production app.

2

Stetho

A powerful open-source debugging platform for Android, developed by Facebook. This tool makes debugging native Android apps as simple as debugging webpages using Chrome’s Developer Tools and helps perform various actions like checking the complete View hierarchy, inspect SQLite database, monitor network operations, etc. with ease.

3

JRebel for Android

We all get quite frustrated staring at the screen like a fool and waiting for Gradle builds taking forever to finish. But this awesome tool from JRebel comes to the rescue by drastically improving build times and making Android app development and debugging almost realtime.

4

Gradle Please

If you are using Gradle as your build system in Android Studio, then you can add any external library in your project with just a single line of code. But how do you get that line quickly and easily? Here’s where this sweet little tool comes in handy.

5

Android Asset Studio

An awesome collection of simple and easy-to-use tools to generate various types of icons (launcher, notification, generic, app shortcut icons) that you will need while designing and developing Android apps.

6

LeakCanary

LeakCanary is a powerful memory leak detection tool developed by Square, making the difficult and time-consuming job of detecting memory leaks so much easier. Once setup, it will automatically start giving you notifications whenever memory leaks happen in your app with complete stack trace to help you fix it.

7

DryRun

A really useful and innovative tool that can let you test-run any Android library hosted online in just a few seconds. This tool makes it incredibly easy for you to try out various libraries that we discover daily with almost no effort.

8

Slides Code Highlighter

As developers we have to give presentations, tech talks or just show a fancy piece of code snippet to another developer quite often. And this is where this nifty tool by Roman Nurik comes in handy which turns your boring chunks of code into a beautifully highlighted and presentable code snippet.

9

InstaBug

I have been using this tool for quite some time now and I must admit that it has significantly changed the way my users provide app feedback to me. They can now share screenshots, video and audio recordings, detailed logs and so much more to help me identify and fix bugs easily.

10

Takt

A tiny library which you can use to check the FPS of every corner of your app while debugging it. It is always better to catch bugs and significant lags in the development phase and not letting your users have a chance of a bad experience while using the production app.

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