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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 …
88.24% of apps
93.16% of installs
Firebase is a mobile platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality apps. It is made up of co…
64.71% of apps
88.61% of installs
A collection of libraries that help you design robust, testable, and maintainable apps.
82.35% of apps
86.95% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
70.59% of apps
84.36% of installs
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across proc…
70.59% of apps
84.36% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
64.71% of apps
84.36% of installs
This library adds support for the Action Bar user interface design pattern. This library includes s…
58.82% of apps
82.39% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
52.94% of apps
81.77% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
52.94% of apps
81.77% of installs
Kotlin is a JVM based programming language and an officially supported Android language since Googl…
47.06% of apps
81.15% of installs
Android includes the transitions framework, which enables you to easily animate changes between two…
23.53% of apps
76.54% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's Loader.
41.18% of apps
74.94% of installs
Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It …
35.29% of apps
72.91% of installs
With WorkManager, you can easily set up a task and hand it off to the system to run under the condi…
23.53% of apps
70.94% of installs
IntelliJ IDEA is a Java integrated development environment for developing computer software.
11.76% of apps
68.36% of installs
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way …
23.53% of apps
64.79% of installs
Picasso allows for hassle-free image loading in your application by handling ImageView recycling an…
11.76% of apps
62.76% of installs
The Checker Framework enhances Java's type system to make it more powerful and useful. This lets so…
5.88% of apps
62.14% of installs
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a service that helps developers send data from servers to their app…
35.29% of apps
17.04% of installs
The Android Jetpack Media library contains classes that are helpful for building apps that play aud…
47.06% of apps
16.33% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
17.65% of apps
14.39% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
17.65% of apps
14.39% of installs
A helper library for printing bitmaps.
17.65% of apps
14.39% of installs
Standalone efficient collections.
17.65% of apps
10.14% of installs
ViewPager2 replaces ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to…
17.65% of apps
8.80% of installs
An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling.
17.65% of apps
8.80% of installs
Helper class for inflating layouts asynchronously.
11.76% of apps
8.18% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
11.76% of apps
8.18% of installs
Representation of a document backed by either a DocumentsProvider or a raw file on disk. This is a …
11.76% of apps
8.18% of installs
LocalBroadcastManager is an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: a…
11.76% of apps
8.18% of installs
Butter Knife provides field and method binding for Android views.
11.76% of apps
8.18% of installs
Volley is an HTTP library that makes networking for Android apps easier and faster.
11.76% of apps
8.18% of installs
The Google Analytics SDK for Android makes it easy for native Android developers to collect user en…
17.65% of apps
7.46% of installs
Powerful (Zoom, Rotation, Multi-Source), customizable (Shape, Limits, Style), optimized (Async, Sam…
5.88% of apps
6.21% of installs
This module provides support for MIME multipart encoded entities.
5.88% of apps
6.21% of installs
CleverTap provides App Analytics and User Engagement for Mobile Apps
5.88% of apps
6.21% of installs
The Dropbox API allows you to build the power of Dropbox directly into your app. The API provides m…
5.88% of apps
6.21% of installs
HtmlCleaner is open-source HTML parser written in Java that cleans up ill-formed html, as encounter…
5.88% of apps
6.21% of installs
Universal Image Loader for Android provides a reusable instrument for asynchronous image loading, c…
5.88% of apps
6.21% of installs
Modern products for sales, marketing and support to connect with customers and help you grow faster.
5.88% of apps
6.21% of installs
JCIFS is an open-source client library that implements the CIFS/SMB networking protocol in 100% Jav…
5.88% of apps
6.21% of installs
JDOM provides a way to represent XML documents for easy and efficient reading, manipulation, and wr…
5.88% of apps
6.21% of installs
JSON.simple is a simple Java toolkit for JSON. You can use JSON.simple to encode or decode JSON tex…
5.88% of apps
6.21% of installs
jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for ext…
5.88% of apps
6.21% of installs
Lottie is a mobile library that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json and renders …
5.88% of apps
6.21% of installs
ReactiveX provides an API for asynchronous programming with observable streams. This API is availab…
5.88% of apps
6.21% of installs
The YouTube Android Player API enables you to incorporate video playback functionality into your An…
5.88% of apps
6.21% of installs
ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing …
5.88% of apps
6.21% of installs
Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and A…
23.53% of apps
4.61% of installs
Okio is a library that complements java.io and java.nio to make it easier to access, store, and pro…
11.76% of apps
2.59% of installs
This is a class for reading and writing Exif tags in various image file formats.
11.76% of apps
2.03% of installs
A simple, straight-forward implementation of the Android In-app billing API.
5.88% of apps
1.97% of installs
Ionic is an open-source SDK for hybrid mobile app development using Web technologies.
5.88% of apps
1.97% of installs
A library that allows use of Material designed dialogs down to API 8.
5.88% of apps
1.97% of installs
PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologi…
5.88% of apps
1.97% of installs
With the Maps SDK for Android, apps can add maps based on Google Maps data.
11.76% of apps
0.68% of installs
Cocos2d-x is an open-source mobile 2D game framework written in C++.
5.88% of apps
0.62% of installs
The FMOD Ex sound system is a revolutionary audio engine for game developers, multimedia developers…
5.88% of apps
0.62% of installs
Android library for using the Honeycomb (Android 3.0) animation API on all versions of the platform…
5.88% of apps
0.62% of installs
React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript, letting you compose a mobile UI from…
5.88% of apps
0.62% of installs
uCrop is an Android library that allows you to rotate and crop images for further use.
5.88% of apps
0.62% of installs
Unity is a feature rich, fully integrated development engine for the creation of interactive 3D con…
5.88% of apps
0.62% of installs
Yoga is a cross-platform layout engine which implements Flexbox.
5.88% of apps
0.62% of installs