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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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Helper class for inflating layouts asynchronously.
33.41% of apps
20.20% of installs
IntelliJ IDEA is a Java integrated development environment for developing computer software.
30.73% of apps
18.10% of installs
ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing …
19.06% of apps
17.58% of installs
ReactiveX provides an API for asynchronous programming with observable streams. This API is availab…
14.73% of apps
16.14% of installs
Picasso allows for hassle-free image loading in your application by handling ImageView recycling an…
17.06% of apps
15.88% of installs
The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) serves as a simple facade or abstraction for various …
6.97% of apps
15.54% of installs
Jetpack Credential Manager (passwords, passkeys, federated sign-in).
4.34% of apps
15.27% of installs
The Checker Framework enhances Java's type system to make it more powerful and useful. This lets so…
13.38% of apps
14.69% of installs
Volley is an HTTP library that makes networking for Android apps easier and faster.
9.89% of apps
14.16% of installs
Android optimized event bus that simplifies communication between Activities, Fragments, Threads, S…
8.80% of apps
12.38% of installs
Yoga is a cross-platform layout engine which implements Flexbox.
6.61% of apps
12.34% of installs
ByteDance application performance monitoring / crash SDK.
4.80% of apps
11.16% of installs
Kotlin asynchronous client/server networking framework (JetBrains).
3.60% of apps
10.25% of installs
TensorFlow is a deep learning library developed by Google.
1.29% of apps
10.08% of installs
Unity is a feature rich, fully integrated development engine for the creation of interactive 3D con…
8.63% of apps
9.88% of installs
The FMOD Ex sound system is a revolutionary audio engine for game developers, multimedia developers…
8.58% of apps
9.81% of installs
The Google Analytics SDK for Android makes it easy for native Android developers to collect user en…
10.51% of apps
9.70% of installs
The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.
3.86% of apps
8.00% of installs
Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier.
12.03% of apps
7.27% of installs
The Joda project is a group of Java open-source projects that seeks to improve core Java functional…
4.29% of apps
7.04% of installs
Apache Commons Codec (TM) software provides implementations of common encoders and decoders such as…
5.21% of apps
6.79% of installs
Reactive Streams is an initiative to provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non…
8.88% of apps
6.69% of installs
Commons IO is a library of utilities to assist with developing IO functionality.
5.35% of apps
6.27% of installs
Views and Drawable for displaying animated GIFs on Android.
2.37% of apps
6.17% of installs