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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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Paging indicator widgets compatible with the ViewPager from the Android Support Library and ActionB…
1.76% of apps
0.73% of installs
PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologi…
5.82% of apps
0.71% of installs
AVLoadingIndicatorView is a collection of nice loading animations for Android.
1.18% of apps
0.70% of installs
HockeyApp collects live crash reports and feedback from your users, distributes your beta versions,…
0.22% of apps
0.67% of installs
Jaudiotagger is an Audio Tagging library that fully supports Mp3, Mp4 (Mp4 audio, M4a and M4p audio…
0.11% of apps
0.63% of installs
Currently there are two code types of code generation for protobuf: the normal version and the lite…
0.09% of apps
0.62% of installs
CircularImageView / CircularProgressBar / RoundedView.
1.33% of apps
0.61% of installs
Realm is a mobile database that runs directly inside phones, tablets or wearables.
2.39% of apps
0.59% of installs
ImageViewTouch is an android ImageView widget with zoom and pan capabilities.
0.80% of apps
0.58% of installs
AboutLibraries is a library to offer some information of libraries.
0.37% of apps
0.57% of installs
The Dropbox API allows you to build the power of Dropbox directly into your app. The API provides m…
0.06% of apps
0.56% of installs
High-performance JSON processor (JSON parser + JSON generator) written in Java. Beyond basic JSON r…
0.40% of apps
0.56% of installs
Object Relational Mapping Lite (ORM Lite) provides some simple, lightweight functionality for persi…
0.90% of apps
0.55% of installs
Written by Google, this library is an easy-to-use and efficient Java client library for accessing G…
0.27% of apps
0.54% of installs
XML Pull Parser is an interface that defines parsing functionlity provided in XMLPULL V1 API
1.67% of apps
0.54% of installs
A mobile application monitoring tool to help teams build high-performance, stable mobile applicatio…
0.56% of apps
0.53% of installs
The standard Java libraries fail to provide enough methods for manipulation of its core classes. Ap…
0.49% of apps
0.53% of installs
A well documented, high-level Android interface that makes capturing pictures and videos easy, addr…
0.63% of apps
0.53% of installs
card.io provides fast, easy credit card scanning in mobile apps
0.95% of apps
0.52% of installs
The Apache Thrift software framework, for scalable cross-language services development, combines a …
0.11% of apps
0.52% of installs
juniversalchardet is a Java port of 'universalchardet', that is the encoding detector library of Mo…
0.14% of apps
0.51% of installs
Apache James Mime4J provides a parser, MimeStreamParser, for e-mail message streams in plain rfc822…
0.19% of apps
0.50% of installs
In-app Billing is a Google Play service that provides checkout processing for in-app purchases.
0.26% of apps
0.48% of installs
Segment is one place to collect customer data and send it to your tools for analytics, marketing au…
0.86% of apps
0.47% of installs
The JavaMail API provides a platform-independent and protocol-independent framework to build mail a…
0.54% of apps
0.47% of installs
Provides a simple way to add a draggable sliding up panel (popularized by Google Music and Google M…
1.02% of apps
0.46% of installs