Most Used SDKs in Top 200 Free Android Apps

Google Analytics 170 Apps (85% of Top 200)

Google Analytics provides insight on app usage, user engagement, and cross-network attribution. It is natively integrated with Firebase, Google's app developer platform, and provides unlimited reporting for up to 500 distinct events, helping to understand clearly how app users behave.

Google AdMob 163 Apps (82% of Top 200)

AdMob helps a user monetize a mobile app through in-app advertising. Ads can be displayed as banner, interstitial, video, or native ads—which are seamlessly added to platform native UI components. AdMob uses the Google Mobile Ads SDK which helps app developers gain insights about their users and maximize ad revenue.

Firebase 154 Apps (77% of Top 200)

Firebase is a mobile and web app development platform that provides developers with a plethora of tools and services to help them develop high-quality apps, grow their user base, and earn more profit.

Gson 153 Apps (77% of Top 200)

Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It can also be used to convert a JSON string to an equivalent Java object. Gson can work with arbitrary Java objects including pre-existing objects that you do not have source-code of.

Firebase Cloud Messaging 129 Apps (65% of Top 200)

Firebase Cloud Messaging provides a reliable and efficient connection between servers and devices, allowing for the delivery and reception of messages on mobile devices. This cross-platform messaging solution lets app developers reliably deliver messages to app users at no cost.

Facebook 110 Apps (55% of Top 200)

Facebook provides the easiest way to track success of App Ads, implement powerful sharing or let people log into an app with Facebook. Among other tools, this SDK provides anonymized audience insight about the people interacting with the app as well as a way for people to login to the app through Facebook. It also contains five component SDKs that can be connected to individually.

Square Retrofit 108 Apps (54% of Top 200)

Retrofit turns your HTTP API into a Java interface. Retrofit offers Synchronous vs. Asynchronous opportunities.

Bolts 103 Apps (52% of Top 200)

Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier. These libraries, originally created by Facebook and Parse, have been open sourced and made available to others without a mandatory Facebook developer or Parse affiliation. Bolts includes "tasks", which make organization of complex asynchronous code more manageable, and an implementation of the App Links Protocol, which helps link content in other apps.

ZXing 101 Apps (51% of Top 200)

Zxing is a multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library. This opensource pluggin even though presently in development mode, still is a great option for developers. The pluggin is optimized with JRprofilerand implemented in Java, with ports to other languages

Facebook Audience Network 90 Apps (45% of Top 200)

Facebook Audience Network is designed to maximize revenue with diverse demand from global advertisers. Facebook Audience Network helps you monetize your app by showing highly targeted ads that match the interests of your users.

Crashlytics 84 Apps (42% of Top 200)

Crashlytics is a powerful and lightweight tool that delivers interactive, detailed crash reports in realtime. Crashlytics performs deep analyses of each thread and uses a multi-symbolication process to provide progressively higher levels of detail. It is one of the modular kits contained within Fabric and is available in both iOSand Android versions.

Exo Player 79 Apps (40% of Top 200)

ExoPlayer is an application level media player for Android. It provides an alternative to Android’s MediaPlayer API for playing audio and video both locally and over the Internet. ExoPlayer supports features not currently supported by Android’s MediaPlayer API, including DASH and SmoothStreaming adaptive playbacks.

Fabric 73 Apps (37% of Top 200)

Fabric gives everyone on your mobile team a complete, real-time understanding of your app's performance and health at every stage all the way from development up to launch, and beyond,.

Unity Ads 72 Apps (36% of Top 200)

Unity Ads is a comprehensive monetization platform for Unity, iOS, and Android developers. Use it to easily monetize existing player base. The Unity Ads provides a comprehensive monetization framework for game.