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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 …
78.57% of apps
72.49% of installs
A collection of libraries that help you design robust, testable, and maintainable apps.
77.38% of apps
72.49% of installs
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across proc…
77.38% of apps
72.49% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
72.62% of apps
72.41% of installs
This library adds support for the Action Bar user interface design pattern. This library includes s…
73.81% of apps
72.41% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
73.81% of apps
72.41% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
63.10% of apps
71.58% of installs
With WorkManager, you can easily set up a task and hand it off to the system to run under the condi…
51.19% of apps
68.01% of installs
Firebase is a mobile platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality apps. It is made up of co…
61.90% of apps
65.22% of installs
Kotlin is a JVM based programming language and an officially supported Android language since Googl…
58.33% of apps
64.43% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
58.33% of apps
63.03% of installs
Android includes the transitions framework, which enables you to easily animate changes between two…
55.95% of apps
63.00% of installs
Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It …
44.05% of apps
61.26% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's Loader.
47.62% of apps
52.23% of installs
Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Googl…
33.33% of apps
51.40% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
40.48% of apps
50.79% of installs
The Android Jetpack Media library contains classes that are helpful for building apps that play aud…
55.95% of apps
48.31% of installs
Standalone efficient collections.
42.86% of apps
44.50% of installs
LocalBroadcastManager is an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: a…
38.10% of apps
44.42% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
36.90% of apps
43.72% of installs
A helper library for printing bitmaps.
36.90% of apps
43.72% of installs
Representation of a document backed by either a DocumentsProvider or a raw file on disk. This is a …
35.71% of apps
43.70% of installs
The FMOD Ex sound system is a revolutionary audio engine for game developers, multimedia developers…
16.67% of apps
42.94% of installs
Unity is a feature rich, fully integrated development engine for the creation of interactive 3D con…
16.67% of apps
42.94% of installs
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way …
38.10% of apps
42.88% of installs
IntelliJ IDEA is a Java integrated development environment for developing computer software.
32.14% of apps
42.69% of installs
Okio is a library that complements java.io and java.nio to make it easier to access, store, and pro…
23.81% of apps
40.82% of installs
The Guava project contains several of Google's core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based pro…
23.81% of apps
40.49% of installs
The Checker Framework enhances Java's type system to make it more powerful and useful. This lets so…
22.62% of apps
40.27% of installs
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a service that helps developers send data from servers to their app…
48.81% of apps
39.24% of installs
Picasso allows for hassle-free image loading in your application by handling ImageView recycling an…
27.38% of apps
29.37% of installs
ViewPager2 replaces ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to…
25.00% of apps
25.65% of installs
An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling.
23.81% of apps
23.81% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
27.38% of apps
18.99% of installs
Helper class for inflating layouts asynchronously.
26.19% of apps
18.92% of installs
ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing …
22.62% of apps
18.67% of installs
This is a class for reading and writing Exif tags in various image file formats.
21.43% of apps
17.78% of installs
Lottie is a mobile library that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json and renders …
16.67% of apps
16.89% of installs
Reactive Streams is an initiative to provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non…
7.14% of apps
8.04% of installs
ReactiveX provides an API for asynchronous programming with observable streams. This API is availab…
10.71% of apps
7.98% of installs
Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier.
9.52% of apps
7.78% of installs
PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologi…
9.52% of apps
1.72% of installs
The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) serves as a simple facade or abstraction for various …
9.52% of apps
1.19% of installs
TensorFlow is a deep learning library developed by Google.
2.38% of apps
0.93% of installs
Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and A…
8.33% of apps
0.87% of installs
With the Maps SDK for Android, apps can add maps based on Google Maps data.
8.33% of apps
0.82% of installs
Google Play Licensing is a network-based service that lets an application query a trusted Google Pl…
5.95% of apps
0.74% of installs
Commons IO is a library of utilities to assist with developing IO functionality.
2.38% of apps
0.71% of installs
AVLoadingIndicatorView is a collection of nice loading animations for Android.
1.19% of apps
0.71% of installs
The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.
1.19% of apps
0.71% of installs
CleverTap provides App Analytics and User Engagement for Mobile Apps
1.19% of apps
0.71% of installs
RootBeer is a library that uses a series of detection mechanisms to detect if an application is run…
1.19% of apps
0.71% of installs
RoundedImageView is a fast ImageView (and Drawable) that supports rounded corners (and ovals or cir…
1.19% of apps
0.71% of installs
Spongy Castle is the stock Bouncy Castle library with a couple of small changes to make it work on …
1.19% of apps
0.71% of installs
This is a logger with a small, extensible API which provides utility on top of Android's normal Log…
1.19% of apps
0.71% of installs
The Google Analytics SDK for Android makes it easy for native Android developers to collect user en…
4.76% of apps
0.24% of installs
React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript, letting you compose a mobile UI from…
3.57% of apps
0.24% of installs
Yoga is a cross-platform layout engine which implements Flexbox.
3.57% of apps
0.24% of installs
This is a small Android library project for your application to enable the users to select an arbit…
1.19% of apps
0.22% of installs
Written by Google, this library is an easy-to-use and efficient Java client library for accessing G…
1.19% of apps
0.22% of installs
YouTube Player library for Android and Chromecast, stable and customizable.
2.38% of apps
0.09% of installs
Android optimized event bus that simplifies communication between Activities, Fragments, Threads, S…
2.38% of apps
0.09% of installs
A zooming image view to display huge images. Supports pinch to zoom, panning and rotation and is ea…
2.38% of apps
0.09% of installs
Material Design ProgressBar with consistent appearance on Android 4.0+.
2.38% of apps
0.07% of installs
Alipay is one of the biggest mobile and online payment solutions.
1.19% of apps
0.07% of installs
greenDAO is a light & fast ORM solution for Android that maps objects to SQLite databases.
1.19% of apps
0.07% of installs
ImageViewTouch is an android ImageView widget with zoom and pan capabilities.
1.19% of apps
0.07% of installs
A library that allows use of Material designed dialogs down to API 8.
1.19% of apps
0.07% of installs
Matisse is a well-designed local image and video selector for Android.
1.19% of apps
0.07% of installs
uCrop is an Android library that allows you to rotate and crop images for further use.
3.57% of apps
0.03% of installs
Volley is an HTTP library that makes networking for Android apps easier and faster.
2.38% of apps
0.02% of installs
The Joda project is a group of Java open-source projects that seeks to improve core Java functional…
2.38% of apps
0.02% of installs
jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for ext…
2.38% of apps
0.02% of installs
A simple, straight-forward implementation of the Android In-app billing API.
1.19% of apps
0.02% of installs
Fetch is a simple, powerful, customizable file download manager library for Android.
1.19% of apps
0.02% of installs
Screaming fast JSON parsing and serialization library for Android.
1.19% of apps
0.02% of installs
Sentry provides self-hosted and cloud-based error monitoring that helps developers discover, triage…
3.57% of apps
0.02% of installs
OkHttp is an efficient HTTP client providing features such as SPDY, connection pooling, transparent…
2.38% of apps
0.01% of installs
App Center is a continuous integration, delivery and learning tool for Android apps. It provides an…
2.38% of apps
0.01% of installs
Android Bootstrap is a library which provides several custom views styled according to the Twitter …
1.19% of apps
0.01% of installs
The API for client-side HTTP authentication against a server.
1.19% of apps
0.01% of installs
Butter Knife provides field and method binding for Android views.
1.19% of apps
0.01% of installs
Crashlytics delivers real-time, detailed crash reports for mobile apps.
1.19% of apps
0.01% of installs
Used to remotely log unhandled exceptions in Android applications.
1.19% of apps
0.01% of installs
OpenCensus is a set of libraries for various languages that allow you to collect application metric…
1.19% of apps
0.01% of installs
Implementation of ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures.
1.19% of apps
0.01% of installs
An Android library that encourages users to rate the app on the Google Play.
1.19% of apps
0.01% of installs
Xamarin enables developers to create Android apps with C# and share code between different platform…
1.19% of apps
0.01% of installs
The Kawa language framework provides an implementation of 'Scheme', which is in the Lisp family of …
1.19% of apps
0.00% of installs
RevenueCat is an API and SDK to handle and analyze subscriptions.
1.19% of apps
0.00% of installs