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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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Mobile SDK for Android to uniquely identify mobile devices
0.19% of apps
0.16% of installs
Ionic Capacitor cross-platform runtime (Cordova successor).
1.19% of apps
0.16% of installs
This is a small Android library project for your application to enable the users to select an arbit…
0.49% of apps
0.16% of installs
Parse is a complete technology stack to power your mobile app's backend.
0.50% of apps
0.15% of installs
Vitamio is an open multimedia library for Android and iOS, with hardware accelerated decoder and re…
0.03% of apps
0.15% of installs
Matisse is a well-designed local image and video selector for Android.
0.21% of apps
0.15% of installs
Utility library around using YouTube inside your android app.
0.01% of apps
0.14% of installs
The PhoneGap Social Sharing plugin allows you to use the native sharing window of your mobile devic…
1.60% of apps
0.14% of installs
Corona is a cross-platform framework ideal for rapidly creating apps and games for mobile devices a…
0.29% of apps
0.14% of installs
jchardet is a java port of the source from mozilla's automatic charset detection algorithm.
0.02% of apps
0.14% of installs
A small, yet full-featured framework that allows building View-based Android applications
0.12% of apps
0.13% of installs
Optimizely is an experience optimization platform enabling A/B and multivariate testing.
0.12% of apps
0.13% of installs
JNLua (Java Native Lua) integrates the Lua Scripting Language into Java.
0.31% of apps
0.13% of installs
Osmdroid provides tools and views to interact with OpenStreetMap data. The OpenStreetMapView is an …
0.32% of apps
0.13% of installs
PubNub provides realtime infrastructure-as-a-service to software and hardware developers to build r…
0.21% of apps
0.13% of installs
A simple yet beautiful color picker component for Android.
0.00% of apps
0.13% of installs
Android-Query (AQuery) is a light-weight library for doing asynchronous tasks and manipulating UI e…
0.21% of apps
0.13% of installs
A robust, powerful, and very simple ORM android database library with annotation processing.
0.36% of apps
0.12% of installs
An Android animation library which easily adds ItemAnimator to RecyclerView items.
0.47% of apps
0.12% of installs
Screaming fast JSON parsing and serialization library for Android.
0.46% of apps
0.12% of installs
A layout that you can swipe/slide to show another layout.
0.36% of apps
0.12% of installs
The CommonsWare Android Components, or CWAC, are open-source libraries to help solve various tactic…
0.45% of apps
0.12% of installs
An all in one drawer library that follows the Google Material Design Guidelines.
0.56% of apps
0.11% of installs
Allows Android devices to detect and interact with beacons.
0.64% of apps
0.11% of installs
Mitek MiSnap allows apps to to capture ID documents like passports, id cards, etc. to verify users'…
0.45% of apps
0.11% of installs
Pushwoosh allows developers to send push notifications to their users' devices.
0.25% of apps
0.10% of installs
ZBar is an open-source software suite for reading bar codes from various sources, such as video str…
0.39% of apps
0.10% of installs
This is a charting software library for Android applications.
0.38% of apps
0.10% of installs
dom4j is an open-source library for working with XML, XPath and XSLT on the Java platform using the…
0.12% of apps
0.10% of installs
A Unity plugin that provides the functionality of Android native functions.
0.10% of apps
0.09% of installs
Xamarin enables developers to create Android apps with C# and share code between different platform…
1.91% of apps
0.09% of installs
kObjects is a collection of small ('kilobyte') projects. Most of the projects are suitable or desig…
0.51% of apps
0.09% of installs
SendBird is a chat platform for mobile apps and websites. It provides a chat and messaging SDK and …
0.09% of apps
0.09% of installs
Guice (pronounced 'juice') is a lightweight dependency injection framework for Java 5 and above
0.31% of apps
0.09% of installs