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Background
Review Scope
Any framework or tool that
- Claims to aid in rapidly starting the development of native Android applications written in Java.
For this requirement, different combinations of keywords such as framework, bootstrap, template, base, architecture, generator were used during the search phase
- Was updated during 2015/2016
- Has a license
Notable Exclusions
- Cross-Platform Frameworks
- Library projects limited to narrowly-scoped functions or application layer
Other Notes
- For open-source, GitHub was the main place for finding projects. BitBucket didn't retrun useful or relevant results while OpenHub was more or less redirecting to the same GitHub results
- If similar projects (e.g. forked projects) were found only the latest one was included
- Proprietary projects weren't execluded but I found none that fit the scope. For better or worse, googling android and framework returns mostly references to cross-platform frameworks