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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.
66.23% of apps
52.56% of installs
Android Jetpack components are a collection of libraries that are individually adoptable and built …
66.23% of apps
52.56% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
63.64% of apps
52.55% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
61.04% of apps
52.54% of installs
This library adds support for the Action Bar user interface design pattern. This library includes s…
62.34% of apps
52.15% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
58.44% of apps
49.93% of installs
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across proc…
63.64% of apps
47.37% of installs
Kotlin is a JVM based programming language and an officially supported Android language since Googl…
50.65% of apps
46.32% of installs
Firebase is a mobile platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality apps. It is made up of co…
48.05% of apps
46.28% of installs
The Android Jetpack Media library contains classes that are helpful for building apps that play aud…
51.95% of apps
45.16% of installs
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a service that helps developers send data from servers to their app…
41.56% of apps
43.40% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
50.65% of apps
42.97% of installs
Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It …
40.26% of apps
42.78% of installs
Android includes the transitions framework, which enables you to easily animate changes between two…
45.45% of apps
30.24% of installs
With WorkManager, you can easily set up a task and hand it off to the system to run under the condi…
36.36% of apps
29.64% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
31.17% of apps
25.96% of installs
Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Googl…
19.48% of apps
21.50% of installs
The Guava project contains several of Google's core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based pro…
16.88% of apps
21.09% of installs
ViewPager2 replaces ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to…
25.97% of apps
20.98% of installs
The FMOD Ex sound system is a revolutionary audio engine for game developers, multimedia developers…
11.69% of apps
20.87% of installs
Unity is a feature rich, fully integrated development engine for the creation of interactive 3D con…
10.39% of apps
20.75% of installs
ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing …
15.58% of apps
19.74% of installs
Picasso allows for hassle-free image loading in your application by handling ImageView recycling an…
18.18% of apps
19.29% of installs
Standalone efficient collections.
35.06% of apps
17.70% of installs
An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling.
23.38% of apps
17.50% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's Loader.
41.56% of apps
14.41% of installs
LocalBroadcastManager is an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: a…
27.27% of apps
13.11% of installs
ReactiveX provides an API for asynchronous programming with observable streams. This API is availab…
9.09% of apps
13.01% of installs
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way …
23.38% of apps
12.39% of installs
Helper class for inflating layouts asynchronously.
19.48% of apps
12.36% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
28.57% of apps
12.00% of installs
Representation of a document backed by either a DocumentsProvider or a raw file on disk. This is a …
25.97% of apps
11.86% of installs
A helper library for printing bitmaps.
25.97% of apps
11.86% of installs
IntelliJ IDEA is a Java integrated development environment for developing computer software.
22.08% of apps
10.70% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
23.38% of apps
10.18% of installs
Okio is a library that complements java.io and java.nio to make it easier to access, store, and pro…
22.08% of apps
9.57% of installs
The Checker Framework enhances Java's type system to make it more powerful and useful. This lets so…
12.99% of apps
7.50% of installs
This is a class for reading and writing Exif tags in various image file formats.
18.18% of apps
7.21% of installs
Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier.
7.79% of apps
4.10% of installs
Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and A…
3.90% of apps
2.49% of installs
Android optimized event bus that simplifies communication between Activities, Fragments, Threads, S…
9.09% of apps
1.94% of installs
RootBeer is a library that uses a series of detection mechanisms to detect if an application is run…
2.60% of apps
1.37% of installs
PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologi…
2.60% of apps
1.26% of installs
The Adobe AIR runtime enables developers to deploy standalone applications built with HTML, JavaScr…
1.30% of apps
1.25% of installs
MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format.
1.30% of apps
1.25% of installs
Spongy Castle is the stock Bouncy Castle library with a couple of small changes to make it work on …
1.30% of apps
1.25% of installs
Lottie is a mobile library that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json and renders …
9.09% of apps
0.57% of installs
Apache Commons Codec (TM) software provides implementations of common encoders and decoders such as…
3.90% of apps
0.53% of installs
Reactive Streams is an initiative to provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non…
3.90% of apps
0.53% of installs
Google Play Licensing is a network-based service that lets an application query a trusted Google Pl…
6.49% of apps
0.52% of installs
Amplitude provides product analytics to help companies understand user behavior.
1.30% of apps
0.39% of installs
Views and Drawable for displaying animated GIFs on Android.
1.30% of apps
0.39% of installs
CleverTap provides App Analytics and User Engagement for Mobile Apps
1.30% of apps
0.39% of installs
Leanplum is a mobile marketing SDK that allows developers to send customized messages to users, tra…
1.30% of apps
0.39% of installs
Simple is a high performance XML serialization and configuration framework for Java.
1.30% of apps
0.39% of installs
With the Maps SDK for Android, apps can add maps based on Google Maps data.
5.19% of apps
0.16% of installs
React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript, letting you compose a mobile UI from…
3.90% of apps
0.15% of installs
Yoga is a cross-platform layout engine which implements Flexbox.
3.90% of apps
0.15% of installs
The Google Analytics SDK for Android makes it easy for native Android developers to collect user en…
2.60% of apps
0.14% of installs
Commons IO is a library of utilities to assist with developing IO functionality.
2.60% of apps
0.14% of installs
The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) serves as a simple facade or abstraction for various …
2.60% of apps
0.14% of installs
This is a logger with a small, extensible API which provides utility on top of Android's normal Log…
2.60% of apps
0.14% of installs
This project aims to provide a reusable Pull to Refresh widget for Android.
1.30% of apps
0.12% of installs
kObjects is a collection of small ('kilobyte') projects. Most of the projects are suitable or desig…
1.30% of apps
0.12% of installs
The ksoap2-android project provides a lightweight and efficient SOAP client library for the Android…
1.30% of apps
0.12% of installs
kXML is a small XML pull parser, specially designed for constrained environments such as Applets, P…
1.30% of apps
0.12% of installs
An asynchronous callback-based Http client for Android built on top of Apache's HttpClient librarie…
1.30% of apps
0.12% of installs
The microlog4android project brings the microlog logging library to Android.
1.30% of apps
0.12% of installs
This is a repackaging of HttpClient for Android.
1.30% of apps
0.12% of installs
SlidingMenu is an open-source Android library that allows developers to easily create applications …
1.30% of apps
0.12% of installs
XML Pull Parser is an interface that defines parsing functionlity provided in XMLPULL V1 API
1.30% of apps
0.12% of installs
App Center is a continuous integration, delivery and learning tool for Android apps. It provides an…
1.30% of apps
0.04% of installs
AVLoadingIndicatorView is a collection of nice loading animations for Android.
1.30% of apps
0.04% of installs
Xamarin enables developers to create Android apps with C# and share code between different platform…
1.30% of apps
0.04% of installs
uCrop is an Android library that allows you to rotate and crop images for further use.
5.19% of apps
0.03% of installs
The API for client-side HTTP authentication against a server.
2.60% of apps
0.02% of installs
A lightweight viewpager indicator like in Nexus 5 launcher.
2.60% of apps
0.01% of installs
A library that allows use of Material designed dialogs down to API 8.
2.60% of apps
0.01% of installs
Android Bootstrap is a library which provides several custom views styled according to the Twitter …
1.30% of apps
0.01% of installs
Butter Knife provides field and method binding for Android views.
1.30% of apps
0.01% of installs
jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for ext…
1.30% of apps
0.01% of installs
Used to remotely log unhandled exceptions in Android applications.
1.30% of apps
0.01% of installs
OkHttp is an efficient HTTP client providing features such as SPDY, connection pooling, transparent…
1.30% of apps
0.01% of installs
OpenCensus is a set of libraries for various languages that allow you to collect application metric…
1.30% of apps
0.01% of installs
Implementation of ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures.
1.30% of apps
0.01% of installs
Sentry provides self-hosted and cloud-based error monitoring that helps developers discover, triage…
1.30% of apps
0.01% of installs
An Android library that encourages users to rate the app on the Google Play.
1.30% of apps
0.01% of installs
The YouTube Android Player API enables you to incorporate video playback functionality into your An…
1.30% of apps
0.01% of installs
Fetch is a simple, powerful, customizable file download manager library for Android.
1.30% of apps
0.00% of installs
Screaming fast JSON parsing and serialization library for Android.
1.30% of apps
0.00% of installs
A zooming image view to display huge images. Supports pinch to zoom, panning and rotation and is ea…
1.30% of apps
0.00% of installs
Volley is an HTTP library that makes networking for Android apps easier and faster.
1.30% of apps
0.00% of installs