Starting a native Android app in 2018? What technologies you should consider...

If you start developing a new native Android app from scratch in 2018, you should consider the following technologies / libraries:

MUSTs

• Dagger 2
• Glide by Bum Technologies
• Gson by GOogle
• OkHttp by Square
• Retrofit by Square
• Support AppCompat & Support Design by AOSP
• Support RecyclerView
• Support

 Recommended

• Glide Transformations by Daichi Furiya
• RxAndroid by ReactiveX
• RxJava by ReactiveX

Nice to have

• AdapterDelegates by Hannes Dorfmann
• FastAdapter by Mike Penz
• flexbox by FlexboxLayout
• greenDAO3 by greenrobot
• Mosby by Hannes Dormann
• RecylerviewAnimations by Daichi Furiya
• Recyclerview FastScroller by Tim Malseed