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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 …
75.00% of apps
51.12% of installs
A collection of libraries that help you design robust, testable, and maintainable apps.
70.83% of apps
51.10% of installs
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across proc…
70.83% of apps
51.10% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
62.50% of apps
49.78% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
62.50% of apps
49.78% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's Loader.
62.50% of apps
49.78% of installs
Provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
62.50% of apps
49.78% of installs
Android Jetpack is a library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that…
62.50% of apps
49.78% of installs
Standalone efficient collections.
58.33% of apps
49.73% of installs
Android includes the transitions framework, which enables you to easily animate changes between two…
58.33% of apps
49.73% of installs
This library adds support for the Action Bar user interface design pattern. This library includes s…
58.33% of apps
49.65% of installs
Static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
50.00% of apps
49.60% of installs
LocalBroadcastManager is an application-wide event bus and embraces layer violations in your app: a…
41.67% of apps
49.59% of installs
Representation of a document backed by either a DocumentsProvider or a raw file on disk. This is a …
41.67% of apps
49.56% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
37.50% of apps
49.55% of installs
A helper library for printing bitmaps.
37.50% of apps
49.55% of installs
Kotlin is a JVM based programming language and an officially supported Android language since Googl…
50.00% of apps
49.23% of installs
IntelliJ IDEA is a Java integrated development environment for developing computer software.
37.50% of apps
49.14% of installs
Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It …
33.33% of apps
46.67% of installs
Firebase is a mobile platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality apps. It is made up of co…
41.67% of apps
46.53% of installs
The Simple Logging Facade for Java or (SLF4J) serves as a simple facade or abstraction for various …
16.67% of apps
44.81% of installs
With WorkManager, you can easily set up a task and hand it off to the system to run under the condi…
25.00% of apps
41.03% of installs
The FMOD Ex sound system is a revolutionary audio engine for game developers, multimedia developers…
12.50% of apps
40.95% of installs
Unity is a feature rich, fully integrated development engine for the creation of interactive 3D con…
12.50% of apps
40.95% of installs
The Guava project contains several of Google's core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based pro…
12.50% of apps
40.86% of installs
The Checker Framework enhances Java's type system to make it more powerful and useful. This lets so…
8.33% of apps
40.82% of installs
Okio is a library that complements java.io and java.nio to make it easier to access, store, and pro…
33.33% of apps
10.17% of installs
The Android Jetpack Media library contains classes that are helpful for building apps that play aud…
37.50% of apps
10.10% of installs
Helper class for inflating layouts asynchronously.
25.00% of apps
8.73% of installs
The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to us…
25.00% of apps
8.73% of installs
This is a class for reading and writing Exif tags in various image file formats.
20.83% of apps
8.59% of installs
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a service that helps developers send data from servers to their app…
29.17% of apps
5.58% of installs
Android optimized event bus that simplifies communication between Activities, Fragments, Threads, S…
20.83% of apps
5.57% of installs
An image loading and caching library for Android focused on smooth scrolling.
20.83% of apps
5.57% of installs
Reactive Streams is an initiative to provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non…
16.67% of apps
5.53% of installs
ReactiveX provides an API for asynchronous programming with observable streams. This API is availab…
16.67% of apps
5.53% of installs
jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for ext…
12.50% of apps
5.40% of installs
Powerful (Zoom, Rotation, Multi-Source), customizable (Shape, Limits, Style), optimized (Async, Sam…
12.50% of apps
5.37% of installs
Material Design ProgressBar with consistent appearance on Android 4.0+.
8.33% of apps
5.36% of installs
ViewPager2 replaces ViewPager, addressing most of its predecessor’s pain-points, including right-to…
29.17% of apps
4.70% of installs
Picasso allows for hassle-free image loading in your application by handling ImageView recycling an…
12.50% of apps
4.60% of installs
Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier.
12.50% of apps
4.24% of installs
Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Googl…
8.33% of apps
4.20% of installs
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way …
8.33% of apps
4.07% of installs
PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologi…
8.33% of apps
4.07% of installs
Amplitude provides product analytics to help companies understand user behavior.
4.17% of apps
4.07% of installs
Branch increases mobile conversion, retention, and engagement through deep linking, user routing, a…
4.17% of apps
4.07% of installs
The bullet proof, fast and easy to use adapter library, which minimizes developing time to a fracti…
4.17% of apps
4.07% of installs
The JavaMail API provides a platform-independent and protocol-independent framework to build mail a…
4.17% of apps
4.07% of installs
A library that allows use of Material designed dialogs down to API 8.
4.17% of apps
4.07% of installs
With the Maps SDK for Android, apps can add maps based on Google Maps data.
25.00% of apps
1.51% of installs
Android-Job is an utility library for Android to run jobs delayed in the background.
8.33% of apps
1.33% of installs
ImageViewTouch is an android ImageView widget with zoom and pan capabilities.
4.17% of apps
1.29% of installs
Matisse is a well-designed local image and video selector for Android.
4.17% of apps
1.29% of installs
Android library for using the Honeycomb (Android 3.0) animation API on all versions of the platform…
4.17% of apps
1.29% of installs
OkHttp is an efficient HTTP client providing features such as SPDY, connection pooling, transparent…
4.17% of apps
1.29% of installs
Realm is a mobile database that runs directly inside phones, tablets or wearables.
4.17% of apps
1.29% of installs
ShortcutBadger makes your Android App show the count of unread messages as a badge on your App shor…
4.17% of apps
1.29% of installs
ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing …
20.83% of apps
0.71% of installs
Views and Drawable for displaying animated GIFs on Android.
8.33% of apps
0.54% of installs
Apache Commons Codec (TM) software provides implementations of common encoders and decoders such as…
8.33% of apps
0.14% of installs
The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.
4.17% of apps
0.13% of installs
Butter Knife provides field and method binding for Android views.
4.17% of apps
0.13% of installs
Google Play Licensing is a network-based service that lets an application query a trusted Google Pl…
4.17% of apps
0.13% of installs
uCrop is an Android library that allows you to rotate and crop images for further use.
4.17% of apps
0.13% of installs
The Google Analytics SDK for Android makes it easy for native Android developers to collect user en…
8.33% of apps
0.08% of installs
Volley is an HTTP library that makes networking for Android apps easier and faster.
8.33% of apps
0.05% of installs
ACRA is a library enabling Android apps to automatically post their crash reports to a report serve…
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
Android Bootstrap is a library which provides several custom views styled according to the Twitter …
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
Commons IO is a library of utilities to assist with developing IO functionality.
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
This project aims to provide a reusable Pull to Refresh widget for Android.
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
Universal Image Loader for Android provides a reusable instrument for asynchronous image loading, c…
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
The Joda project is a group of Java open-source projects that seeks to improve core Java functional…
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
NewQuickAction(3D) is a small android library to create QuickAction dialog (with Gallery3D app styl…
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
This MultiTouch Controller class makes it much easier to write multitouch applications for Android.
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
Osmdroid provides tools and views to interact with OpenStreetMap data. The OpenStreetMapView is an …
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
Implementation of ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures.
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript, letting you compose a mobile UI from…
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
RootBeer is a library that uses a series of detection mechanisms to detect if an application is run…
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
SlidingMenu is an open-source Android library that allows developers to easily create applications …
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
The Spring Framework provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-b…
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
This is a logger with a small, extensible API which provides utility on top of Android's normal Log…
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
Paging indicator widgets compatible with the ViewPager from the Android Support Library and ActionB…
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
Yoga is a cross-platform layout engine which implements Flexbox.
4.17% of apps
0.04% of installs
Xamarin enables developers to create Android apps with C# and share code between different platform…
4.17% of apps
0.01% of installs
Stripe provides a set of tools that enables businesses to accept and manage online payments.
4.17% of apps
0.00% of installs