Detective Droid is a tools app developed by michaelcarrano.
Download Statistics
Detective Droid has been downloaded 9.2 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 16 times.
User Ratings
Detective Droid is rated 4.53 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 89 ratings.
App Information
Detective Droid is FREE to download. The APK download size is 2.05 MB. The latest version available is 2025-10-13. The last update was on October 12, 2025.
Technical Requirements
Detective Droid requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play September 2014.
Description
Have you ever wondered, "how is this app made?", wonder no more!
Detective Droid is here to help you detect which libraries are used inside applications that are installed on your device.
This makes it really easy to see what companies and developers are using to develop their applications.
Detective Droid requires no permissions and works on Android API 21 (Android 5.0 Lollipop) and newer.
- Andriod 11: Changes in Android 11 require a permission in order to get the list of apps installed on the user's device. You can read more about this change: https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/package-visibility
Detective Droid is available on Github: https://github.com/michaelcarrano/detective-droid
Recent changes: General improvements such as detecting additional libraries.
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Does what it says on the box! Great stuff! Now we just need a meta version so we can check out detective droid too ;)
★★★★★A Google User· Sep 2, 2014
Perfect Works exactly as I expected and does what it advertises. This is a great tool for any programmer to see what libraries other developers are using in their apps.
★★★★★Zahid Shaikh· Jul 16, 2022
Really helped me in analyzing the apps and making a robust decision in choosing the framework for developing new apps
★★★★☆Nayanesh Gupte· Dec 18, 2015
Nice! Is it showing only popular known libraries ? Couldn't see some 3rd party SDKs listed here.
★☆☆☆☆aina cab world· Apr 27, 2023
It does not show me anything about what are being used by companies to build their own apps. Shows nothing useful like, what technologies have been used, etc. You will know what I am saying when you try it with your own App.
★☆☆☆☆Libor Panský· Sep 20, 2018
Application does not work on my Nexus 5X. Detective Droid crashes immediately after analyzing all installed apps. Moreover, I would welcome an option of selection which apps should be analyzed, I don't want to wait 10 minutes for the process to end to analyse all apps, if I want to check just a single one...
Google Play Rankings for Detective Droid
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Technologies used by Detective Droid
Detective Droid is requesting 2 permissions and is using 10 libraries.
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Android Jetpack core
Kotlin