Most Used SDKs in Top 200 Free iOS Apps

The Top SDKs for Android apps are listed here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appbrain.com&#x2F;stats&#x2F;libraries&#x2F;dev" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appbrain.com&#x2F;stats&#x2F;libraries&#x2F;dev</a>

Pretty surprising to see Alamofire above AFNetworking given that AFNetworking is the Objective-C variant and Alamofire is for Swift. That almost seems to indicate that there are more Swift apps in the top 200 then Objective-C apps. Of course one can use Alamofire in Objective-C, but that just seems like making your life harder than it needs to be

Very interesting - does anyone know exactly what techniques they use to gather this data?<p>I&#x27;m guessing to some extent it must rely on a jailbroken iOS to get past the .ipa code encryption, as with this similar analysis: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;ios-os-x-development&#x2F;libraries-used-in-the-top-100-ios-apps-5b845ad927b7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;ios-os-x-development&#x2F;libraries-used-in-th...</a>

I didn&#x27;t do it at first, most probably did, but if you click through to the Top 200 themselves and select an app, you can see all the SDKs the app uses. Pretty cool.

Much love to AFNetworking and SDWebImage. Thanks for all the spare time you&#x27;ve given me.

I totally read that headline wrong at first glance, &quot;TOP 200 most used SDKs used in iOS apps&quot; ;)

What surprised me:<p>* Spark-SDK – This is for controlling IoT devices, why does Snapchat, Netflix and Spotify ship this?<p>* Squareup – Do people use this over Stripe? Or what is the use case?

I never heard about Fabric. Can&#x27;t seem to understand what they do from their website. There is no mention of what it does on the home page. Is this some sort of an analytics library?

Alamofire (an all-Swift library) is linked in 31% more of the top 200 free apps than AFNetworking (an all-Objective C library). I guess Swift is still making headway into Big Apps...<p>Also, 6 apps are still using ASIHTTPRequest, despite the last release being 5 years ago.<p>Worse still, 3 apps use a combination of ASIHTTPRequest, AFNetworking, and Alamofire - that&#x27;s a library that was abandoned 5 years ago, an Objective-C library, and a Swift library. Oh man.

Very cool, I love seeing something like this as opposed to just asking people what they recommend or looking at git activity alone.

MBProgressHUD? Really? It&#x27;s not that hard to write your own progress indicator.

Not viewable on mobile Safari. Is that some kind of joke?

This is amazing!