Amazing open source Android apps

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This is an extremely competitive list of open source Android apps written in Java. It carefully picks the best Android apps written in Java that are open source. To give you an idea about the quality of this list, the average number of Github stars is 3,874.

The apps are broken down into 13 groups: Social Networking, News, Photos & Videos, Productivity, Music, Game, Messaging, Media, Finance, Architecture, Utilities, Reference, Weather.

Mybridge initially picked the apps. You're welcome to contribute. Let's make sure the quality of app is great.

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Amazing Apps

Social Networking

• Android-oss: Official Kickstarter open source app for Android. Bring new ideas to life, anywhere. ★4,233

• NewPipe: A lightweight Youtube frontend for Android. ★2,597

• Official WordPress App for Android - Wordpress Engineering. ★1597

News

• Plaid: An Android app which provides design news & inspiration as well as being an example of implementing material design. ★10,235

• FastHub: The ultimate GitHub client for Android. ★2,468

• Materialistic: A material-design Hacker News Android reader. ★1,429

Photos & Videos

• Telecine: Record full-resolution video on your Android devices. ★2,127

• LeafPic: An ad-free, open-source and material-designed android gallery alternative. ★2,061

Productivity

• K-9 Mail: Advanced Email for Android. ★3,488

• The ownCloud Android App: Organize and Store everything. ★2,343

• AmazeFileManager: Material design file manager for Android. ★1,611

• Omni-Notes: Open source note-taking application for Android. ★1,213

Music

• Timber: Material Design Music Player. ★3,813

• Phonograph: A material designed music player for Android ★1,502

• Shuttle Music Player. ★1,475

• Vanilla: A Music Player with Plugins. ★472

Game

• Pixel-dungeon: Traditional roguelike game with pixel-art graphics and simple interface. ★1,758

• Santa-tracker-android: An entertaining app that brings joy to millions of children on Christmas - Google Engineering. ★1,147

• 2048-android: The android port of the 2048 game (for offline playing). ★606

Messaging

• Telegram for Android source: A messaging app focused on speed and security. ★8,614

• Signal-Android: A private messenger for Android. ★8,523

• Qksms: The most beautiful SMS messenger app for Android. ★1,676

• ExoPlayer: An extensible media player for Android - Google Engineering. ★8,555

Media

• VLC media player official for Android App. ★3,365

• AntennaPod: A podcast manager for Android. ★1,728

• MovieGuide: Movie discovery app showcasing MVP, RxJava, Dagger 2 and Clean Architecture. ★1,657

Finance

• CoCoin: Multi-view Accounting Application for Android. ★1,698

• Kickmaterial: Crowdfunding app concept for Android built on Material Design. ★1,461

• Bitcoin Wallet Android: Standalone Bitcoin node, no centralized backend required. ★1,079

• GnuCash Android: A companion expense-tracker application. ★690

• StocksWidget - A home screen widget that displays stock price quotes from your portfolio. ★107 - Kotlin

Architecture

• Android-CleanArchitecture: A sample app on how to architect an android app using Uncle Bob's clean architecture approach. ★10,476

• Archi: Showcase of 3 Android app architectures: Standard Android" ★3,046

• Android-mvvm-architecture: A detailed sample app that implements MVVM architecture using Dagger2, Room, RxJava2, FastAndroidNetworking and PlaceholderView. ★2,147

Utilities

• Shadowsocks client: A secure socks5 proxy. Surf the internet privately and securely. ★10,893

• SoundRecorder: A simple sound recording app implementing Material Design. ★626

Reference

• iosched: The Google I/O 2017 Android App. ★15,197

• Apps-android-wikipedia: The official Wikipedia Android open source app. ★600

Weather

• SeeWeather: RxJava+RxBus+Retrofit+Glide+Material Design Weather App. ★3,003