Jetpack Insights

What is Jetpack?

Android Jetpack is a suite of libraries, tools, and guidance to help developers write high-quality, robust, and maintainable apps more easily. It addresses common development concerns such as background tasks, UI management, data persistence, and navigation, allowing developers to focus on the unique aspects of their applications. It is commonly used to accelerate app development, reduce boilerplate code, and improve app reliability.

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What other technologies are related to Jetpack?

Jetpack Competitor Technologies

Dagger

Dagger is a dependency injection framework. While Dagger can be used with Jetpack, Hilt is the recommended DI solution for Android development and is built on top of Dagger.

mentioned alongside Jetpack in 10% (457) of relevant job posts

Rx

RxJava (Reactive Extensions) is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs by using observable sequences. While usable in android development, it competes with kotlin coroutines as an async programming strategy

mentioned alongside Jetpack in 7% (113) of relevant job posts

Dagger2

Dagger2 is a dependency injection framework. While Dagger2 can be used with Jetpack, Hilt is the recommended DI solution for Android development and is built on top of Dagger.

mentioned alongside Jetpack in 7% (79) of relevant job posts

Koin

Koin is a pragmatic lightweight dependency injection framework for Kotlin developers. It provides an alternative dependency injection approach to Dagger/Hilt.

mentioned alongside Jetpack in 6% (82) of relevant job posts

Jetpack Complementary Technologies

Room

Room is a persistence library that is part of Jetpack. It provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access.

mentioned alongside Jetpack in 13% (517) of relevant job posts

LiveData

LiveData is a data holder class that is part of Jetpack. It is an observable data holder class.

mentioned alongside Jetpack in 16% (359) of relevant job posts

Coroutines

Kotlin Coroutines are a concurrency design pattern that simplifies asynchronous programming. They are often used with Jetpack components to handle background tasks.

mentioned alongside Jetpack in 10% (535) of relevant job posts