Ignition helps you getting your Android applications off the ground quickly, by offering ready-to-use components and utility classes that wrap a lot of the boilerplate that's involved when writing Android apps. Areas covered by ignition encompass: UI components such as widgets, adapters, dialogs, and more An HTTP wrapper library that allows you to write simple yet robust networking code A class to load remote images off the web and cache them A simple yet effective caching framework (caches to memory and disk, anything from HTTP responses to entire object trees) Several helper classes for easier API level backwards compatibility, Intents, diagnostics, and more A friendlier and more robust implementation of AsyncTask