Last updated: September 25, 2018
Google Protocol Buffers
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.
License
New BSD License
Tags
#2 in
Data Serialization,
Open Source
Statistics
Market share overall
0.80% of apps
9.22% of installs
Market share in top apps 
8.62% of apps
18.82% of installs
Market share in new apps
1.14% of apps
0.96% of installs
Related Libraries
AdMob
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Android Support library
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Google Protocol Buffers Micro
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Google Protocol Buffers Nano
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Google Guava
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Google gson
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fabric
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okHttp
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Crashlytics
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Google Cloud Messaging (GCM)
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Top apps that contain Google Protocol Buffers
4.0 | Free | 1,000,000,000+
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Market share by category
4.13%
2.68%
1.63%
1.56%
1.52%
1.50%
1.42%
1.42%
1.41%
1.40%
1.28%
1.22%
1.20%
1.16%
1.05%
0.86%
0.83%
0.83%
Average
0.80%
0.77%
0.77%
0.77%
0.76%
0.74%
0.72%
0.71%
0.71%
0.69%
0.66%
0.64%
0.60%
0.59%
0.58%
0.52%
0.51%
0.49%
0.37%
0.33%
0.29%
0.28%
0.24%
0.22%
0.21%
0.21%
0.20%
0.20%
0.19%
0.17%
0.16%
0.12%
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