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Top 20 Image Processing SDKs Used in Android Apps on Google Play
Last update: 28 May 2025 CET
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Top 20 Image Processing SDKs Used in Android Apps on Google Play

We at 42matters have identified the 20 most popular Image Processing SDKs leveraged by Android apps available on the Android app market.

Image Processing SDKs enable app developers to add image processing, editing, and manipulation functionalities to their mobile apps. These SDKs typically include features like image recognition, image filtering, image enhancement, and other image such capabilities.

This list is based on our analysis of the millions of mobile applications – and the 2,300+ SDKs they use – that constitute the vast inventory of the Google Play Store. The accompanying data provides readers with a glimpse into the rich mobile application insights generated by the 42matters technology. This data is also available via our APIs, file dumps, Explorer, and SDK Explorer.

The intended purpose of this article is to assist app builders in their search for the perfect Image Processing SDK to leverage in their app, as well as to give SDK developers insight into their biggest competitors and potential customers. This data collected by our technology may also serve as a useful tool for folks researching the wider mobile app market.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 62.96% have integrated Glide. This accounts for 65.69% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

Glide is a fast and efficient image loading library SDK for Android focused on smooth scrolling. Glide offers an easy to use API, a performant and extensible resource decoding pipeline, and automatic resource pooling.

Total Apps
640.46k
Google Play
App Share
62.96%
Google Play
Apps
627.73k
Games
12.74k
Total Downloads
698.27b
Google Play
Download Share
65.69%
Google Play
App Downloads
653.87b
Game Downloads
44.40b

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Glide.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 27.99% have integrated Facebook Fresco. This accounts for 13.75% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

Fresco is a powerful SDK for displaying images in Android applications.

Total Apps
284.70k
Google Play
App Share
27.99%
Google Play
Apps
281.49k
Games
3.21k
Total Downloads
146.12b
Google Play
Download Share
13.75%
Google Play
App Downloads
139.78b
Game Downloads
6.34b

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Facebook Fresco.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 24.08% have integrated Picasso. This accounts for 35.30% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

Picasso is a powerful image downloading and caching library SDK for Android.

Total Apps
244.90k
Google Play
App Share
24.08%
Google Play
Apps
211.01k
Games
33.89k
Total Downloads
375.30b
Google Play
Download Share
35.30%
Google Play
App Downloads
197.79b
Game Downloads
177.51b

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Picasso.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 16.47% have integrated ML Kit by Google. This accounts for 20.06% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

Total Apps
167.52k
Google Play
App Share
16.47%
Google Play
Apps
167.05k
Games
473
Total Downloads
213.26b
Google Play
Download Share
20.06%
Google Play
App Downloads
211.46b
Game Downloads
1.80b

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use ML Kit by Google.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 13.55% have integrated uCrop. This accounts for 4.67% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

uCrop is an image cropping library for Android. This SDK aims to provide an ultimate and flexible image cropping experience.

Total Apps
137.87k
Google Play
App Share
13.55%
Google Play
Apps
136.76k
Games
1.10k
Total Downloads
49.64b
Google Play
Download Share
4.67%
Google Play
App Downloads
46.87b
Game Downloads
2.77b

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use uCrop.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 11.32% have integrated React Native Vector Icons by Oblador. This accounts for 1.09% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

The React Native Vector Icons SDK by Oblador offers customizable icons for React Native with support for NavBar/TabBar, image source, and full styling.

Total Apps
115.11k
Google Play
App Share
11.32%
Google Play
Apps
114.30k
Games
809
Total Downloads
11.56b
Google Play
Download Share
1.09%
Google Play
App Downloads
11.32b
Game Downloads
237.60m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use React Native Vector Icons by Oblador.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 10.19% have integrated Coil. This accounts for 20.50% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

Total Apps
103.66k
Google Play
App Share
10.19%
Google Play
Apps
96.42k
Games
7.24k
Total Downloads
217.90b
Google Play
Download Share
20.50%
Google Play
App Downloads
139.62b
Game Downloads
78.28b

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Coil.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 8.32% have integrated PhotoView. This accounts for 8.45% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

PhotoView is an SDK that aims to help produce an easily usable implementation of a zooming Android ImageView.

Total Apps
84.63k
Google Play
App Share
8.32%
Google Play
Apps
84.23k
Games
400
Total Downloads
89.81b
Google Play
Download Share
8.45%
Google Play
App Downloads
88.25b
Game Downloads
1.56b

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use PhotoView.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 6.54% have integrated Android-Image-Cropper. This accounts for 2.36% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

The Android-Image-Cropper SDK is an image cropping library for Android, optimized for camera and/or gallery.

Total Apps
66.51k
Google Play
App Share
6.54%
Google Play
Apps
66.35k
Games
160
Total Downloads
25.07b
Google Play
Download Share
2.36%
Google Play
App Downloads
24.75b
Game Downloads
319.09m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Android-Image-Cropper.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 6.52% have integrated Universal Image Loader. This accounts for 2.52% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

Universal Image Loader is a powerful and flexible library for loading, caching, and displaying images on Android.

Total Apps
66.34k
Google Play
App Share
6.52%
Google Play
Apps
65.40k
Games
943
Total Downloads
26.76b
Google Play
Download Share
2.52%
Google Play
App Downloads
23.21b
Game Downloads
3.55b

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Universal Image Loader.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 6.49% have integrated AndroidSVG. This accounts for 16.79% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

AndroidSVG is an SVG (scalable vector graphics) parser and renderer SDK for Android. It has almost complete support for the static visual elements of the SVG 1.1 and SVG 1.2 tiny specifications (except for filters).

Total Apps
65.97k
Google Play
App Share
6.49%
Google Play
Apps
55.59k
Games
10.38k
Total Downloads
178.45b
Google Play
Download Share
16.79%
Google Play
App Downloads
126.20b
Game Downloads
52.25b

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use AndroidSVG.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 5.21% have integrated android-gif-drawable. This accounts for 6.42% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

android-gif-drawable offers views and drawables needed for displaying animated GIFs on Android apps via SDK.

Total Apps
52.96k
Google Play
App Share
5.21%
Google Play
Apps
51.39k
Games
1.56k
Total Downloads
68.29b
Google Play
Download Share
6.42%
Google Play
App Downloads
63.78b
Game Downloads
4.51b

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use android-gif-drawable.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 4.28% have integrated Glide Transformations. This accounts for 3.24% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

Glide Transformations offers an Android transformation library SDK providing a variety of image transformations for Glide.

Total Apps
43.49k
Google Play
App Share
4.28%
Google Play
Apps
43.08k
Games
413
Total Downloads
34.41b
Google Play
Download Share
3.24%
Google Play
App Downloads
34.05b
Game Downloads
357.35m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Glide Transformations.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 4.12% have integrated Cloudinary. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

Total Apps
41.91k
Google Play
App Share
4.12%
Google Play
Apps
41.89k
Games
22
Total Downloads
647.65m
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
643.66m
Game Downloads
3.99m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Cloudinary.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 1.66% have integrated Subsampling Scale Image View. This accounts for 3.60% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

Subsampling Scale Image View is an Android library (AAR) SDK. It's a highly configurable, easily extendable deep zoom view for displaying huge images without loss of detail. Perfect for photo galleries, maps, building plans etc.

Total Apps
16.91k
Google Play
App Share
1.66%
Google Play
Apps
16.78k
Games
131
Total Downloads
38.27b
Google Play
Download Share
3.60%
Google Play
App Downloads
37.90b
Game Downloads
365.54m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Subsampling Scale Image View.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 1.43% have integrated CircularImageView. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

CircularImageView is an Android project SDK facilitating circular image views in the simplest way possible.

Total Apps
14.50k
Google Play
App Share
1.43%
Google Play
Apps
14.40k
Games
101
Total Downloads
3.80b
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
3.71b
Game Downloads
96.45m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use CircularImageView.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, 1.02% have integrated Shape Image View. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

Shape Image View is an SDK that provides a set of custom shaped android imageview components, and a framework to define more shapes. It implements both shader and bitmap mask based image views.

Total Apps
10.42k
Google Play
App Share
1.02%
Google Play
Apps
10.34k
Games
77
Total Downloads
3.16b
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
2.64b
Game Downloads
519.71m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Shape Image View.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, <1% have integrated ImageViewZoom. This accounts for 1.66% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

ImageViewZoom is an android ImageView SDK with zoom and pan capabilities.

Total Apps
8.99k
Google Play
App Share
<1%
Google Play
Apps
8.96k
Games
32
Total Downloads
17.66b
Google Play
Download Share
1.66%
Google Play
App Downloads
17.53b
Game Downloads
130.47m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use ImageViewZoom.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, <1% have integrated Android-Iconics. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

The Android-Iconics SDK allows you to include any icon font, with all its vector icons, in your project. You can scale with no limit, use any color at any time, provide a contour, and more.

Total Apps
8.46k
Google Play
App Share
<1%
Google Play
Apps
8.44k
Games
19
Total Downloads
3.72b
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
3.70b
Game Downloads
17.69m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Android-Iconics.

Among all apps utilizing image processing SDKs, <1% have integrated OpenCV. This accounts for 1.42% of app downloads within the image processing SDK category.

OpenCV is an open source computer vision and machine learning SDK. OpenCV was built to provide a common infrastructure for computer vision applications and to accelerate the use of machine perception in the commercial products.

Total Apps
7.96k
Google Play
App Share
<1%
Google Play
Apps
7.89k
Games
60
Total Downloads
15.08b
Google Play
Download Share
1.42%
Google Play
App Downloads
15.00b
Game Downloads
80.53m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use OpenCV.

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