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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.
71.43% of apps
54.02% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
71.43% of apps
54.02% of installs
This library adds support for the Action Bar user interface design pattern. This library includes s…
71.43% of apps
54.02% of installs
Android Jetpack components are a collection of libraries that are individually adoptable and built …
71.43% of apps
54.02% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
71.43% of apps
54.02% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
66.67% of apps
51.44% of installs
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across proc…
66.67% of apps
51.38% of installs
With WorkManager, you can easily set up a task and hand it off to the system to run under the condi…
47.62% of apps
50.76% of installs
Firebase is a mobile platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality apps. It is made up of co…
57.14% of apps
48.50% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
54.76% of apps
48.04% of installs
Android includes the transitions framework, which enables you to easily animate changes between two…
45.24% of apps
47.62% of installs
The Android Jetpack Media library contains classes that are helpful for building apps that play aud…
50.00% of apps
45.69% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's Loader.
47.62% of apps
45.41% of installs
Kotlin is a JVM based programming language and an officially supported Android language since Googl…
45.24% of apps
45.30% of installs
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way …
33.33% of apps
44.56% of installs
LocalBroadcastManager is an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: a…
30.95% of apps
42.10% of installs
The Guava project contains several of Google's core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based pro…
26.19% of apps
41.90% of installs
Okio is a library that complements java.io and java.nio to make it easier to access, store, and pro…
26.19% of apps
39.55% of installs
Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Googl…
16.67% of apps
39.04% of installs
Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It …
30.95% of apps
34.45% of installs
ViewPager2 replaces ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to…
35.71% of apps
34.14% of installs
Lottie is a mobile library that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json and renders …
9.52% of apps
28.17% of installs
ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing …
14.29% of apps
26.02% of installs
Cocos2d-x is an open-source mobile 2D game framework written in C++.
2.38% of apps
25.51% of installs
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a service that helps developers send data from servers to their app…
52.38% of apps
22.91% of installs
Standalone efficient collections.
45.24% of apps
22.20% of installs
A helper library for printing bitmaps.
30.95% of apps
19.14% of installs
An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling.
21.43% of apps
18.94% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
33.33% of apps
16.93% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
30.95% of apps
16.67% of installs
Representation of a document backed by either a DocumentsProvider or a raw file on disk. This is a …
30.95% of apps
16.60% of installs
This is a class for reading and writing Exif tags in various image file formats.
19.05% of apps
16.06% of installs
IntelliJ IDEA is a Java integrated development environment for developing computer software.
21.43% of apps
13.94% of installs
The FMOD Ex sound system is a revolutionary audio engine for game developers, multimedia developers…
14.29% of apps
11.38% of installs
Unity is a feature rich, fully integrated development engine for the creation of interactive 3D con…
14.29% of apps
11.38% of installs
The Checker Framework enhances Java's type system to make it more powerful and useful. This lets so…
14.29% of apps
11.13% of installs
Picasso allows for hassle-free image loading in your application by handling ImageView recycling an…
9.52% of apps
10.72% of installs
The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) serves as a simple facade or abstraction for various …
7.14% of apps
10.70% of installs
Helper class for inflating layouts asynchronously.
21.43% of apps
5.98% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
19.05% of apps
3.42% of installs
Google Play Licensing is a network-based service that lets an application query a trusted Google Pl…
9.52% of apps
2.91% of installs
Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and A…
7.14% of apps
2.81% of installs
Reactive Streams is an initiative to provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non…
4.76% of apps
2.63% of installs
ReactiveX provides an API for asynchronous programming with observable streams. This API is availab…
4.76% of apps
2.63% of installs
The Google Analytics SDK for Android makes it easy for native Android developers to collect user en…
2.38% of apps
2.55% of installs
Views and Drawable for displaying animated GIFs on Android.
2.38% of apps
2.55% of installs
The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.
2.38% of apps
2.55% of installs
Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier.
4.76% of apps
0.51% of installs
jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for ext…
4.76% of apps
0.34% of installs
uCrop is an Android library that allows you to rotate and crop images for further use.
4.76% of apps
0.34% of installs
A lightweight console to show logs during testing and debugging for Unity apps
2.38% of apps
0.26% of installs
An open-source project to provide a universal and persistent Unique Device IDentifier (UDID) soluti…
2.38% of apps
0.26% of installs
Commons IO is a library of utilities to assist with developing IO functionality.
4.76% of apps
0.08% of installs
Apache Commons Codec (TM) software provides implementations of common encoders and decoders such as…
4.76% of apps
0.08% of installs
The API for client-side HTTP authentication against a server.
4.76% of apps
0.08% of installs
The Logging package is an ultra-thin bridge between different logging implementations.
4.76% of apps
0.08% of installs
Sentry provides self-hosted and cloud-based error monitoring that helps developers discover, triage…
4.76% of apps
0.08% of installs
The AWS SDK for Android provides a library, code samples, and documentation for developers to build…
2.38% of apps
0.08% of installs
A lightweight viewpager indicator like in Nexus 5 launcher.
2.38% of apps
0.08% of installs
Modern products for sales, marketing and support to connect with customers and help you grow faster.
2.38% of apps
0.08% of installs
An open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java.
2.38% of apps
0.08% of installs
With the Maps SDK for Android, apps can add maps based on Google Maps data.
2.38% of apps
0.03% of installs
Android library for using the Honeycomb (Android 3.0) animation API on all versions of the platform…
2.38% of apps
0.03% of installs
PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologi…
2.38% of apps
0.00% of installs
ShortcutBadger makes your Android App show the count of unread messages as a badge on your App shor…
2.38% of apps
0.00% of installs
MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format.
2.38% of apps
0.00% of installs