Android charting libraries [closed]

Question

I am trying to find a fast and reliable charting library. After some searching, I found 4 libraries: AChartEngine, WilliamChart, HelloCharts and AndroidPlot. I need some up to date feedback about the performance and the stability of these libraries because all the information I could find was outdated.

Answer 1

You can use MPAndroidChart.

It's native, free, easy to use, fast and reliable.

Core features, benefits:

• LineChart, BarChart (vertical, horizontal, stacked, grouped), PieChart, ScatterChart, CandleStickChart (for financial data), RadarChart (spider web chart), BubbleChart
• Combined Charts (e.g. lines and bars in one)
• Scaling on both axes (with touch-gesture, axes separately or pinch-zoom)
• Dragging / Panning (with touch-gesture)
• Separate (dual) y-axes
• Highlighting values (with customizeable popup-views)
• Save chart to SD-Card (as image)
• Predefined color templates
• Legends (generated automatically, customizeable)
• Customizeable Axes (both x- and y-axis)
• Animations (build up animations, on both x- and y-axis)
• Limit lines (providing additional information, maximums, ...)
• Listeners for touch, gesture & selection callbacks
• Fully customizeable (paints, typefaces, legends, colors, background, dashed lines, ...)
• Realm.io mobile database support via MPAndroidChart-Realm library
• Smooth rendering for up to 10.000 data points in Line- and BarChart
• Lightweight (method count ~1.4K)
• Available as .jar file (only 500kb in size)
• Available as gradle dependency and via maven
• Good documentation
• Example Project (code for demo-application)
• Google-PlayStore Demo Application
• Widely used, great support on both GitHub and stackoverflow - mpandroidchart
• Also available for iOS: Charts (API works the same way)
• Also available for Xamarin: MPAndroidChart.Xamarin

Drawbacks:

• No official support for dynamic & realtime data, limited performance in that area

Disclaimer: I am the developer of this library.

Answer 2

See Android arsenal (category Graphics) for more libraries.

• AChartEngine
• AFreeChart
• AndroidCharts
• Androidplot
• DroidDiagram
• EazeGraph GraphView
• HoloGraphLibrary
• HzGrapher
• MPAndroidChart
• SciChart
• WilliamChart
• ChartProgressBar

Answer 3

If you're looking for something more straight forward to implement (and it doesn't include pie/donut charts) then I recommend WilliamChart. Specially if motion takes an important role in your app design. In other hand if you want featured charts, then go for MPAndroidChart.

Answer 4

AchartEngine

You can create a plethora of different chart types relatively quickly with loads of customizable options.

Answer 5

• Achartengine: I have used this. Although for real time graph this might not give good performance if you do not tweak properly.