1# Library guidelines
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5This guide is intended to help Jetpack library developers understand best
6practices for designing and evolving their libraries.
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8It is an addendum to
9s.android.com/api-guidelines,
10which covers standard and practices for designing platform APIs, and it extends
11beyond API guidelines to cover implementation details that are relevant to
12clients of Jetpack libraries.
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14All platform API design guidelines also apply to Jetpack libraries, with any
15additional guidelines or exceptions noted in this document. Jetpack libraries
16also follow
17[explicit API mode](https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/whatsnew14.html#explicit-api-mode-for-library-authors)
18for Kotlin libraries.
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