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Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all of its internal RPC protocols and file formats.
Number of apps
Over 60 thousand
Total number of downloads
Over 800 billion
License
New BSD License
Tags
#2 in
Data Serialization,
Open Source
GitHub
Watchers: 2K,
Stars: 72K,
Forks: 16K
AppBrain analyzes Android apps and games on Google Play and finds the apps that contain Google Protocol Buffers. We provide
free statistics on which apps and games are using these libraries, and a full list of apps can be purchased for a small fee.
Using the stats below, you can answer questions like "Who's using google protocol buffers", "Which apps are a showcase for google protocol buffers", and "How popular is this library?".
About google protocol buffers usage data
Our market share and usage data is crowd-sourced. This means that we have 100% coverage of popular apps, and the less popular an app is, the more likely we won't have detected its libraries. However, this doesn't invalidate our statistics, because the power law property of app downloads means that the vast majority of all downloads is generated by a relatively small number of popular apps, which we all cover.The "related libraries" gives a good overview which code is frequently used together with google protocol buffers. These libraries may, for instance, work well together, or may be competitors to google protocol buffers.
Statistics
Market share overall
23.29% of apps
42.38% of installs
Market share in top apps 
64.14% of apps
46.69% of installs
Market share in new apps
32.21% of apps
51.58% of installs
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Market share by category
40.93%
40.40%
36.65%
35.61%
35.59%
33.66%
33.23%
32.95%
31.83%
31.18%
31.12%
29.09%
28.81%
28.78%
28.49%
28.16%
28.12%
27.89%
27.46%
27.36%
26.89%
26.55%
25.58%
24.79%
24.49%
24.44%
24.30%
24.30%
Average
23.29%
23.13%
22.93%
22.39%
22.38%
22.24%
21.98%
20.71%
20.43%
20.23%
19.84%
19.62%
18.77%
18.29%
18.21%
16.31%
16.24%
15.67%
14.82%
13.96%
12.46%
12.16%
