Android Menus: Best Practice and Awesome Android Menu Libraries

Android menu is a part of User Interface (UI) components. Almost all the android developers use menu in their application because, menu helps users easy to use our application. There are many ways of using menu in android application. Here I have mentioned nice looking and useful menus libraries for android developers. There are lots of android menu libraries available on the internet and among them I have choose some best menus.

Android Menus: Best Practice and Awesome Android Menu Libraries

Following are the some best menu libraries for android project.

1. Android ContextMenu

Context Menu is clean and animated library. We can easily add this animated context menu to our application. This menu can be used in our application instead of option menu also. To use this menu, we have to add compile 'com.yalantis:contextmenu:1.0.4' in our build.gradle file inside dependencies.
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Android Toolbar Example: How to Use Toolbar as ActionBar
Android Action Bar Tutorial and Example With Option Menu

2. Android Side Menu

This is animated android side menu library and easy to use in our application. To use this library in our application, we have to upload animation submodule with git submodule update --init command OR we can add gradle dependency in our build.gradle file with command.
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3. Android ArcMenu and RayMenu

Both ArcMenu and RayMenu are available in same android library. We can use either ArcMenu or RayMenu or both to our application. The menu consists of a main icon and when the users click on the icon, a number of icons appear on the screen. You will be able to change default appearance of these menu.
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5. Satellite Menu

This menu is similar to ArcMenu and RayMenu. In this menu, there is only one button/icon on the left bottom of the screen. When we click on the button/icon, number of icons are popped out of the button.
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6. Popup Menu Compat

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7. Expandable Button Menu

This is an android library which implements an expandable button that can be used as menu.
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8. Android Blurred Grid Menu

This menu covers full screen of android device and menu items are displayed as grid style.
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9. BottomSheet Android Menu

 

Menu items appear at the bottom of android device and menu can be used as list style or grid style. This library is supported only in API 14 and above.
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