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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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Android Jetpack components are a collection of libraries that are individually adoptable and built …
86.36% of apps
93.62% of installs
A collection of libraries that help you design robust, testable, and maintainable apps.
84.09% of apps
93.57% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
80.30% of apps
93.52% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
77.27% of apps
93.45% of installs
This library adds support for the Action Bar user interface design pattern. This library includes s…
75.76% of apps
90.70% of installs
Firebase is a mobile platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality apps. It is made up of co…
68.94% of apps
89.38% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
64.39% of apps
86.73% of installs
Kotlin is a JVM based programming language and an officially supported Android language since Googl…
59.85% of apps
81.29% of installs
The Android Jetpack Media library contains classes that are helpful for building apps that play aud…
47.73% of apps
74.25% of installs
With WorkManager, you can easily set up a task and hand it off to the system to run under the condi…
60.61% of apps
72.38% of installs
Android includes the transitions framework, which enables you to easily animate changes between two…
44.70% of apps
61.76% of installs
Initializes components at application startup.
71.97% of apps
57.71% of installs
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across proc…
72.73% of apps
56.90% of installs
Emoji compatibility support (emoji + emoji2).
63.64% of apps
52.06% of installs
Standalone efficient collections.
36.36% of apps
52.05% of installs
Google Play app integrity / anti-tamper protection (PairIP).
60.61% of apps
51.60% of installs
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a service that helps developers send data from servers to their app…
42.42% of apps
50.56% of installs
Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It …
35.61% of apps
49.20% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
45.45% of apps
47.53% of installs
ViewPager2 replaces ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to…
34.09% of apps
45.23% of installs
IntelliJ IDEA is a Java integrated development environment for developing computer software.
24.24% of apps
44.48% of installs
The Checker Framework enhances Java's type system to make it more powerful and useful. This lets so…
21.97% of apps
44.45% of installs
An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling.
28.03% of apps
42.43% of installs
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way …
45.45% of apps
41.23% of installs
Installs baseline profiles for faster startup.
70.45% of apps
40.47% of installs
Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Googl…
27.27% of apps
39.98% of installs
Media playback libraries, including ExoPlayer.
28.79% of apps
38.93% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's Loader.
41.67% of apps
38.47% of installs
ByteDance application performance monitoring / crash SDK.
28.03% of apps
38.14% of installs
LocalBroadcastManager is an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: a…
28.03% of apps
26.84% of installs
Kotlin asynchronous client/server networking framework (JetBrains).
18.18% of apps
26.06% of installs
This is a class for reading and writing Exif tags in various image file formats.
21.97% of apps
24.62% of installs
Okio is a library that complements java.io and java.nio to make it easier to access, store, and pro…
18.18% of apps
23.79% of installs
Helper class for inflating layouts asynchronously.
12.12% of apps
22.08% of installs
ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing …
9.85% of apps
21.97% of installs
Lottie is a mobile library that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json and renders …
13.64% of apps
20.04% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
28.03% of apps
19.68% of installs
A helper library for printing bitmaps.
25.76% of apps
18.38% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
26.52% of apps
17.42% of installs
Representation of a document backed by either a DocumentsProvider or a raw file on disk. This is a …
25.00% of apps
17.33% of installs
Picasso allows for hassle-free image loading in your application by handling ImageView recycling an…
17.42% of apps
16.97% of installs
The Guava project contains several of Google's core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based pro…
19.70% of apps
14.94% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
12.12% of apps
13.47% of installs
The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) serves as a simple facade or abstraction for various …
9.09% of apps
12.29% of installs
ReactiveX provides an API for asynchronous programming with observable streams. This API is availab…
5.30% of apps
10.51% of installs
GameAnalytics is a free analytics tool designed to improve KPIs, drive more conversions, and boost …
3.03% of apps
9.84% of installs
Spongy Castle is the stock Bouncy Castle library with a couple of small changes to make it work on …
2.27% of apps
9.57% of installs
Reactive Streams is an initiative to provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non…
2.27% of apps
9.51% of installs
Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and A…
4.55% of apps
9.49% of installs
Baseflow plugins (permission_handler, geolocator).
3.03% of apps
9.48% of installs
Flutter Community '+' plugins (share_plus, device_info_plus, …).
2.27% of apps
9.48% of installs
OkHttp is an efficient HTTP client providing features such as SPDY, connection pooling, transparent…
1.52% of apps
9.48% of installs
A cache that uses a bounded amount of space on a filesystem. Each cache entry has a string key and …
1.52% of apps
8.64% of installs
Jetpack Credential Manager (passwords, passkeys, federated sign-in).
12.12% of apps
7.19% of installs
Unity is a feature rich, fully integrated development engine for the creation of interactive 3D con…
11.36% of apps
5.31% of installs
The FMOD Ex sound system is a revolutionary audio engine for game developers, multimedia developers…
10.61% of apps
5.04% of installs
uCrop is an Android library that allows you to rotate and crop images for further use.
3.79% of apps
4.48% of installs
With the Maps SDK for Android, apps can add maps based on Google Maps data.
6.82% of apps
2.74% of installs
Volley is an HTTP library that makes networking for Android apps easier and faster.
4.55% of apps
2.71% of installs
Android optimized event bus that simplifies communication between Activities, Fragments, Threads, S…
4.55% of apps
2.67% of installs
jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for ext…
3.79% of apps
2.05% of installs
Sentry provides self-hosted and cloud-based error monitoring that helps developers discover, triage…
5.30% of apps
1.40% of installs
Apache Commons Codec (TM) software provides implementations of common encoders and decoders such as…
3.03% of apps
0.98% of installs
RootBeer is a library that uses a series of detection mechanisms to detect if an application is run…
1.52% of apps
0.95% of installs
The Google Analytics SDK for Android makes it easy for native Android developers to collect user en…
2.27% of apps
0.90% of installs
Views and Drawable for displaying animated GIFs on Android.
1.52% of apps
0.89% of installs
The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.
2.27% of apps
0.87% of installs
This is a logger with a small, extensible API which provides utility on top of Android's normal Log…
1.52% of apps
0.87% of installs
Google Play Licensing is a network-based service that lets an application query a trusted Google Pl…
1.52% of apps
0.86% of installs
Insetter / PhotoView and related UI libraries.
0.76% of apps
0.86% of installs
Fetch is a simple, powerful, customizable file download manager library for Android.
0.76% of apps
0.86% of installs
Scalable size units (sdp/ssp) for density-independent layouts.
0.76% of apps
0.86% of installs
The Joda project is a group of Java open-source projects that seeks to improve core Java functional…
0.76% of apps
0.86% of installs
A lightweight console to show logs during testing and debugging for Unity apps
0.76% of apps
0.86% of installs
Object Relational Mapping Lite (ORM Lite) provides some simple, lightweight functionality for persi…
0.76% of apps
0.86% of installs
Osmdroid provides tools and views to interact with OpenStreetMap data. The OpenStreetMapView is an …
0.76% of apps
0.86% of installs
Realm is a mobile database that runs directly inside phones, tablets or wearables.
0.76% of apps
0.86% of installs
An open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java.
0.76% of apps
0.86% of installs
Backport of the java.time (JSR-310) date/time API.
0.76% of apps
0.86% of installs
Touchlab Kotlin multiplatform libs (Kermit, Stately).
0.76% of apps
0.86% of installs
RoundedImageView is a fast ImageView (and Drawable) that supports rounded corners (and ovals or cir…
3.03% of apps
0.39% of installs
TensorFlow is a deep learning library developed by Google.
1.52% of apps
0.17% of installs
The API for client-side HTTP authentication against a server.
2.27% of apps
0.12% of installs
The Logging package is an ultra-thin bridge between different logging implementations.
2.27% of apps
0.12% of installs
ShortcutBadger makes your Android App show the count of unread messages as a badge on your App shor…
1.52% of apps
0.11% of installs
Branch increases mobile conversion, retention, and engagement through deep linking, user routing, a…
1.52% of apps
0.09% of installs
React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript, letting you compose a mobile UI from…
2.27% of apps
0.09% of installs
Yoga is a cross-platform layout engine which implements Flexbox.
1.52% of apps
0.09% of installs
Stripe provides a set of tools that enables businesses to accept and manage online payments.
1.52% of apps
0.09% of installs
Amplitude provides product analytics to help companies understand user behavior.
0.76% of apps
0.09% of installs
App Center is a continuous integration, delivery and learning tool for Android apps. It provides an…
0.76% of apps
0.09% of installs
Modern products for sales, marketing and support to connect with customers and help you grow faster.
0.76% of apps
0.09% of installs
MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format.
0.76% of apps
0.09% of installs
Native touch and gesture system for React Native.
0.76% of apps
0.09% of installs
react-native-push-notification (dieam).
0.76% of apps
0.09% of installs
React Native animations library (Software Mansion).
0.76% of apps
0.09% of installs
Uber open-source libs (AutoDispose, RIBs).
0.76% of apps
0.09% of installs
RecyclerView adapter helper library (CymChad).
1.52% of apps
0.05% of installs
A simple, straight-forward implementation of the Android In-app billing API.
0.76% of apps
0.03% of installs
AVLoadingIndicatorView is a collection of nice loading animations for Android.
0.76% of apps
0.03% of installs
Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier.
0.76% of apps
0.03% of installs
Butter Knife provides field and method binding for Android views.
0.76% of apps
0.03% of installs
greenDAO is a light & fast ORM solution for Android that maps objects to SQLite databases.
0.76% of apps
0.03% of installs
ImageViewTouch is an android ImageView widget with zoom and pan capabilities.
0.76% of apps
0.03% of installs
juniversalchardet is a Java port of 'universalchardet', that is the encoding detector library of Mo…
0.76% of apps
0.03% of installs
Material Design ProgressBar with consistent appearance on Android 4.0+.
0.76% of apps
0.03% of installs
A library that allows use of Material designed dialogs down to API 8.
0.76% of apps
0.03% of installs
Implementation of ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures.
0.76% of apps
0.03% of installs
A zooming image view to display huge images. Supports pinch to zoom, panning and rotation and is ea…
0.76% of apps
0.03% of installs
Android based YouTube URL extractor and downloader
0.76% of apps
0.03% of installs
The YouTube Android Player API enables you to incorporate video playback functionality into your An…
0.76% of apps
0.03% of installs
Ionic Capacitor cross-platform runtime (Cordova successor).
1.52% of apps
0.01% of installs
PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologi…
1.52% of apps
0.01% of installs
Flurry Analytics delivers powerful insight into how consumers interact with your mobile application…
0.76% of apps
0.01% of installs
OpenCensus is a set of libraries for various languages that allow you to collect application metric…
0.76% of apps
0.01% of installs
Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. JavaN…
0.76% of apps
0.01% of installs
RevenueCat is an API and SDK to handle and analyze subscriptions.
0.76% of apps
0.01% of installs
ActionBarSherlock is an extension of the compatibility library designed to facilitate the use of th…
0.76% of apps
0.01% of installs
Material DateTime Picker tries to offer you the date and time pickers as shown in the Material Desi…
0.76% of apps
0.00% of installs
