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Use the market share of Android Development tools below to find the best and most popular Development tools.
AppBrain analyzes all Android apps on Google Play and checks what code is built into the package file (APK). We match that with
known package names from development tools. Therefore, these statistics reflect whether the code of a certain library is present
in an app. It doesn't guarantee that the developer is actually using the code, but it still gives a good idea of the market share
and what is the list of the top Android development tools.
If you're looking for the best development tools, looking at the most popular ones is a good data point. By asking yourself, which development tool is used by most Android developers? you can make sure you analyze the best options when you're making a comparison of potential development tools to include in your app.
About the statistics
You can sort the libraries by "Installs" or "Apps". "Apps" will give you the libraries that are present in the most apps. However, it may be that one library is present in lots of apps with 10+ downloads, whereas another library is present in a few apps that all have billions of downloads. The "Installs" sorting option shows the libraries ordered by presence in the most installs on actual Android devices.You can also choose which groups of apps to view the market share of. "Overall" means all Android apps on Google Play, "New" means apps that were launched within the last 30 days, and "Top 500" means the apps that are ranked in the top 500 of the USA.
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A collection of libraries that help you design robust, testable, and maintainable apps.
92.11% of apps
98.95% of installs
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across proc…
92.11% of apps
98.95% of installs
Android Jetpack components are a collection of libraries that are individually adoptable and built …
92.11% of apps
98.95% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
89.47% of apps
98.95% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
86.84% of apps
98.95% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
76.32% of apps
98.33% of installs
Android includes the transitions framework, which enables you to easily animate changes between two…
76.32% of apps
97.99% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
73.68% of apps
98.33% of installs
This library adds support for the Action Bar user interface design pattern. This library includes s…
71.05% of apps
97.55% of installs
Firebase is a mobile platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality apps. It is made up of co…
71.05% of apps
3.08% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's Loader.
68.42% of apps
3.09% of installs
Standalone efficient collections.
65.79% of apps
3.09% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
63.16% of apps
3.08% of installs
LocalBroadcastManager is an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: a…
63.16% of apps
2.13% of installs
A helper library for printing bitmaps.
63.16% of apps
2.12% of installs
Kotlin is a JVM based programming language and an officially supported Android language since Googl…
63.16% of apps
2.68% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
60.53% of apps
2.04% of installs
Representation of a document backed by either a DocumentsProvider or a raw file on disk. This is a …
57.89% of apps
2.12% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
55.26% of apps
97.78% of installs
Helper class for inflating layouts asynchronously.
50.00% of apps
2.02% of installs
IntelliJ IDEA is a Java integrated development environment for developing computer software.
50.00% of apps
1.72% of installs
With WorkManager, you can easily set up a task and hand it off to the system to run under the condi…
44.74% of apps
2.26% of installs
Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It …
44.74% of apps
2.23% of installs
The Android Jetpack Media library contains classes that are helpful for building apps that play aud…
39.47% of apps
97.42% of installs
ViewPager2 replaces ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to…
36.84% of apps
96.93% of installs
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a service that helps developers send data from servers to their app…
36.84% of apps
2.62% of installs
Unity is a feature rich, fully integrated development engine for the creation of interactive 3D con…
34.21% of apps
2.00% of installs
This is a class for reading and writing Exif tags in various image file formats.
31.58% of apps
1.20% of installs
The FMOD Ex sound system is a revolutionary audio engine for game developers, multimedia developers…
31.58% of apps
2.00% of installs
The Guava project contains several of Google's core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based pro…
28.95% of apps
2.15% of installs
Okio is a library that complements java.io and java.nio to make it easier to access, store, and pro…
28.95% of apps
1.20% of installs
An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling.
23.68% of apps
0.98% of installs
ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing …
23.68% of apps
1.48% of installs
The Checker Framework enhances Java's type system to make it more powerful and useful. This lets so…
21.05% of apps
1.18% of installs
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way …
21.05% of apps
0.14% of installs
Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier.
18.42% of apps
0.52% of installs
Google Play Licensing is a network-based service that lets an application query a trusted Google Pl…
13.16% of apps
0.10% of installs
Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Googl…
13.16% of apps
0.43% of installs
Lottie is a mobile library that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json and renders …
10.53% of apps
0.96% of installs
Picasso allows for hassle-free image loading in your application by handling ImageView recycling an…
10.53% of apps
0.13% of installs
Commons IO is a library of utilities to assist with developing IO functionality.
7.89% of apps
0.96% of installs
GameAnalytics is a free analytics tool designed to improve KPIs, drive more conversions, and boost …
7.89% of apps
0.04% of installs
jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for ext…
7.89% of apps
0.00% of installs
A library that allows use of Material designed dialogs down to API 8.
7.89% of apps
0.96% of installs
PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologi…
7.89% of apps
0.00% of installs
ReactiveX provides an API for asynchronous programming with observable streams. This API is availab…
7.89% of apps
0.96% of installs
Views and Drawable for displaying animated GIFs on Android.
5.26% of apps
0.01% of installs
A TextView that automatically resizes text to fit perfectly within its bounds.
5.26% of apps
0.00% of installs
Android optimized event bus that simplifies communication between Activities, Fragments, Threads, S…
5.26% of apps
0.01% of installs
Ionic is an open-source SDK for hybrid mobile app development using Web technologies.
5.26% of apps
0.00% of installs
Screaming fast JSON parsing and serialization library for Android.
5.26% of apps
0.00% of installs
Material Design ProgressBar with consistent appearance on Android 4.0+.
5.26% of apps
0.00% of installs
Implementation of ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures.
5.26% of apps
0.00% of installs
uCrop is an Android library that allows you to rotate and crop images for further use.
5.26% of apps
0.00% of installs
The AWS SDK for Android provides a library, code samples, and documentation for developers to build…
2.63% of apps
0.00% of installs
Amplitude provides product analytics to help companies understand user behavior.
2.63% of apps
0.10% of installs
The Google Analytics SDK for Android makes it easy for native Android developers to collect user en…
2.63% of apps
0.00% of installs
YouTube Player library for Android and Chromecast, stable and customizable.
2.63% of apps
0.00% of installs
Apache Commons Codec (TM) software provides implementations of common encoders and decoders such as…
2.63% of apps
0.00% of installs
App Center is a continuous integration, delivery and learning tool for Android apps. It provides an…
2.63% of apps
0.00% of installs
Branch increases mobile conversion, retention, and engagement through deep linking, user routing, a…
2.63% of apps
0.00% of installs
Cocos2d-x is an open-source mobile 2D game framework written in C++.
2.63% of apps
0.01% of installs
The Joda project is a group of Java open-source projects that seeks to improve core Java functional…
2.63% of apps
0.00% of installs
juniversalchardet is a Java port of 'universalchardet', that is the encoding detector library of Mo…
2.63% of apps
0.01% of installs
A Kotlin library which helps to request runtime permissions in Android. It has several extensions a…
2.63% of apps
0.96% of installs
PermissionsDispatcher provides a simple annotation-based API to handle runtime permissions in Andro…
2.63% of apps
0.96% of installs
Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. JavaN…
2.63% of apps
0.30% of installs
React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript, letting you compose a mobile UI from…
2.63% of apps
0.00% of installs
Reactive Streams is an initiative to provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non…
2.63% of apps
0.96% of installs
RootBeer is a library that uses a series of detection mechanisms to detect if an application is run…
2.63% of apps
0.00% of installs
ShortcutBadger makes your Android App show the count of unread messages as a badge on your App shor…
2.63% of apps
0.00% of installs
The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) serves as a simple facade or abstraction for various …
2.63% of apps
0.00% of installs
A zooming image view to display huge images. Supports pinch to zoom, panning and rotation and is ea…
2.63% of apps
0.00% of installs
This is a logger with a small, extensible API which provides utility on top of Android's normal Log…
2.63% of apps
0.96% of installs
Xamarin enables developers to create Android apps with C# and share code between different platform…
2.63% of apps
0.00% of installs
Yandex AppMetrica is a real-time ad tracking and mobile app analytics solution.
2.63% of apps
0.30% of installs
Yoga is a cross-platform layout engine which implements Flexbox.
2.63% of apps
0.00% of installs