In January 2025, Android 14 held the top spot with a market share of just around 37 percent, followed by Android 13 at nearly 19 percent, and Android 12 with about 13 percent. The newly released Android 15 accounted for just above three percent. Android dominates the global market Released in 2007, Android’s adaptability and versatility quickly attracted the support of major smartphone manufacturers like Sony, Samsung, and HTC, who designed phones specifically for the Android system. This strategic alliance and competitive pricing propelled Android to become the most used smartphone operating system since 2011. By 2023, it dominated over 70 percent of the entire mobile OS market worldwide, outpacing its biggest competitor, Apple. In addition to its global dominance, Android led the European mobile OS market in 2023 with a share of nearly 65 percent. Android Apps and the Google Play Store The world’s largest app store, the Google Play Store, bolsters the popularity of Android devices, which boasted nearly 2.6 million apps ready for download as of June 2023. During this time, the most downloaded Android apps were Meta’s Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Meanwhile, the streaming services apps Disney+ and HBO Max were the top revenue-generating Android apps, raking in over 70 million and 50 million U.S. dollars, respectively, in June 2023.

In 2022, Google Play users worldwide downloaded 110 billion mobile apps, down from 111.3 billion apps in 2021. Generating significantly more downloads than it’s iOS counterpart, the Apple App Store, Android apps on Google Play are available for a wider range of devices than those catering to Apple's closed ecosystem.

Google’s app sales continue to climb Google’s success was equally reflected in its app revenue which has steadily increased each year, reaching 38.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2020. Since 2019, the highest average number of apps released monthly on Google Play was 141.4 thousand in March 2019. Meanwhile, August 2021 saw the lowest number of apps released within the last two and a half years. Despite its success in the mobile app arena, the tech powerhouse still generates the vast majority of its revenues from advertising.

Social and dating apps are among most popular in 2021 In the first quarter of 2021, one year into the coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns, the number of available dating apps grew by nearly 24 percent. Meanwhile, travel apps saw relatively little growth during this period. Facebook-owned Instagram was the most downloaded Android app in July 2021. With travel restrictions still in place in many regions of the world, communication and social apps such as Snapchat, TikTok and Telegram also featured among the most popular apps downloaded that month.

How many apps are there in the Play Store? The number of available apps in the Google Play Store was most recently placed at 1.68 million apps, after surpassing 1 million apps in July 2013. Google Play Store Google Play was originally launched in October 2008 under the name Android Market. As Google’s official app store, it offers its customers a wide range of applications and digital media including music, magazines, books, film, and TV. As of April 2021, the ranking of the top-grossing Android apps worldwide is dominated by mobile games with Coin Master, Garena Free Fire, and PUBG mobile leading the ranking. This hardly comes as a surprise as it is estimated that gaming apps will account for over 70 percent of Google Play app revenues in 2024. As most apps in the Google Play Store are available for free, the company needs to utilize effective business models to secure healthy revenue. How do apps make money? Despite the robust gaming app revenues, most gaming apps are free to download and rely on monetization via in-app advertising or in-game purchases of items such as boosters and accessories. A November 2021 survey of mobile app publishers found that video ads were the most popular mobile app monetization model, followed by display ads and in-app purchases. Additionally, monetizing via subscriptions has proven an effective model for several highly popular apps, with subscription revenues hitting 18.3 billion U.S. dollars in revenues in 2021.

Mobile internet users are spoilt for choice when it comes to the sheer variety and availability of mobile apps. As of the second quarter of 2024, gaming apps were the most popular app category in the Google Play Store, accounting for 11.7 percent of available apps worldwide. Mobile education apps ranked second with a 11.5 percent share. Google Play and app monetization Google Play is the biggest digital distribution platform for Android apps worldwide, offering users over 2.26 million mobile apps to choose from. However, Google Play offers more than just apps – the platform also provides users with music, video, e-book downloads and rental services. Most mobile apps on Google Play are available for free. As of March 2024, around 97 percent of Android apps could be downloaded without having to pay for them upfront, although this does not preclude other mobile app monetization strategies such as in-app advertising and in-app purchases. As of June 2023, the ranking of leading Android apps in the Google Play Store worldwide based on revenue consists mainly of streaming and video apps. Google Play main competitor: the Apple App Store The worldwide gross app revenue of the Google Play store amounted to 11.2 billion U.S. dollars in the second quarter of 2024, a steady climb from the 10.6 billion U.S. dollars a year before. However, in terms of app revenue, Google Play is lagging behind its eternal rival, the Apple App Store. During the same period, Apple’s own digital store generated 24.6 billion U.S. dollars in mobile app revenues, with mobile gaming being the leading category for consumer spending on the platform. In June 2023, mobile-first apps DouYin and TikTok were the highest-grossing app among global iPhone users, generating roughly 372 million U.S. dollars and 324 million U.S. dollars in revenues, respectively.

As of April 2025, 36 percent of apps on the Google Play Store were updated on a weekly basis. In comparison, 73 percent of mobile apps were updated on a monthly basis. Over 95 percent of Android mobile apps hosted on the Google Play Store were updated each year.

Use the OpenWeb Ninja Google Play App Store Data API to access comprehensive data on Google Play Store, including Android Apps / Games, reviews, top charts, search, and more. Our extensive dataset provides over 40 app store data points, enabling you to gain deep insights into the market.

The App Store Data dataset includes all key app details:

App Name, Description, Rating, Photos, Downloads, Version Information, App Size, Permissions, Developer and Contact Information, Consumer Review Data.

In 2024, India was the leading global market for the Google Play Store, with users in the region generating over 28 billion downloads. Brazil followed, as Android users generated approximately 18.47 billion app downloads from the Google Play Store during the examined period. Despite being a strong market for iOS devices, the Google Play Store generated over eight billion app downloads in the United States in 2024.

As of April 2025, Monday was the most common day to release mobile app updates among Android developers, with around 3,500 apps updated on average on this weekday. In comparison, Saturday was the least favorite day among Android developers and publishers to release mobile app updates. Among mobile gaming apps, Thursday was the most popular day for developers and publishers to release an update.

This repository contains the dataset for our study "A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Android Sports Apps in the Google Play Store" and this will help to replicate our study, also the replication package to direct you to help replicate it for your dataset too.

Note: The dataset given are protected with password, and the password is available in our published paper

Google Play 2008 2012 yıllarda eski adıyla Android Market Google ın Android işletim sistemi için geliştirdiği bir paket

Attribution signals extracted from five major Android markets (Google Play, Baidu, APKMonk, Tencent, APKMirror). The data has been collected by a crawler, deployed at difference instances between December 2019 and November 2021.

The data set consists of 4,978,937 records and is provided as a single JSON file compressed using bzip2. An individual "market entry" (i.e., a unique set of signals associated with a single publication version of an app on a market) can have multiple records, as the data set is provided in 'long' form, with each signing certificate associated with the market entry is contained in its own record.

Each record containing the following properties:

Signal	Description
market_entry_id	Unique identifier for the record
pkg_name	Package name (prioritizes package name from APK file over the web page reported package name)
internal_market_id	The internal identifier used by the market (as part of the URL)
market	The market this record was collected from
timestamp	Timestamp of the collection of the market entry
file_sha256	The SHA256 hash of the APK file from which the signals are extracted
meta_version	The reported reported by the meta data on web page description
app_name	The name of the app extract from the meta data
developer_name	The name of the publishing developer
developer_website	The website of the publishing developer
developer_email	The email address of the publishing developer
developer_address	The physical address of the publishing developer
meta_pkg_name	The package name extracted from the app web page
privacy_policy_url	The privacy policy URL
cert_sha256	The SHA256 hash of the certificate used to sign the APK
subject_c	The “country” field extracted from the subject of the signing certificate
subject_s	The “state” field extracted from the subject of the signing certificate
subject_o	The “organisation” field extracted from the subject of the signing certificate
subject_l	The “locale” field extracted from the subject of the signing certificate
subject_ou	The “organisation unit” field extracted from the subject of the signing certificate
subject_cn	The “common name” field extracted from the subject of the signing certificate
self_signed	True if the signing certificate is self-signed, False otherwise
cert_version	The Android signing version of the certificate
apk_version_code	The version code of the APK
apk_pkg_name	The package name extracted from the APK file
apk_app_name	The app name extracted from the APK file
market_id	Identifier that combines the "pkg_name" and "internal_market_id". Deprecated field (use 'market_entry_id' instead)

During the second quarter of 2024, over 2.26 million mobile apps were available on the Google Play Store, down by 18 percent compared to the previous quarter. Between the beginning of 2019 and the end of 2021, the number of mobile apps available to Android users via the Google Play Store experienced a constant increase, reaching 4.67 million apps during the last quarter of 2021. However, after 2022, the number of apps available in the Google Play Store fluctuated.

In April 2025, Block Blast! was the most-downloaded gaming app in the Google Play Store in the United States. The casual title had 674,000 downloads from Android users. Royal Kingdom was the second-most popular gaming app title, with approximately 534,000 downloads from U.S. users.

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In February 2025, Coin Master was the top-grossing gaming app in the Google Play Store in Italy. The casual game title generated over 1.4 million U.S. dollars in revenues from Android users. Royal Match was the second-most-grossing gaming app title with approximately 997,000 U.S. dollars in revenue during that month.

The displayed data on Google Play Store usage shows results of an exclusive Statista survey conducted in the United States in 2018. Some 54 percent of respondents answered the question ''What do you use the Google Play Store for?'' with ''To update my apps ''.The Survey Data Table for the Statista survey Tech Giants and Digital Services in the United States 2019 contains the complete tables for the survey including various column headings.

During the most recently measured period, the number of mobile apps available to Android users in the Google Play Store decreased by 18.5 than two percent compared to the previous quarter. During the first quarter of 2024, the number of available Android apps distributed on the Google Play Store experienced a drop of 18 percent compared to the last quarter of 2023.

In April 2025, approximately 34 thousand mobile apps were released through the Google Play Store. This figure indicates a notable decrease compared to the previous examined period. In the measured period, the highest number of app releases via Google Play Store was recorded in March 2019, with over 141 thousand apps released.

In the first quarter 2023, total combined Apple App Store and Google Play app downloads amounted to an estimated 35 billion. In the most recent examined period, global app downloads across the two major platforms are estimated to have experienced an increase of less than one percent compared to the previous quarter.

As of the second quarter of 2024, approximately 264,000 mobile gaming apps were available in the Google Play Store, representing a 18.84 percent idecrease compared to the previous quarter.