Everyone ships Firebase. What makes News & Magazines different is the stack underneath: Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA), Microsoft Clarity, Singular and 6 more, ranked by how much more often they appear here than in the rest of the catalog.
Catalog-wide staples like Google Sign-In and Firebase are filtered out by design. Each SDK below is at least 1.5× more likely to ship in a News & Magazines app than elsewhere.
Raw adoption inside the category against adoption everywhere else. SDKs marked baseline ship in most apps regardless of category.
Build framework detected by static analysis across all 35 apps in this category. Native Android leads at 74%.
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Last analyzedAnalysis dates reflect when each app was last scanned.
Across 35 analyzed News & Magazines apps, the SDKs that stand out most against the rest of the catalog are Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA), Microsoft Clarity and Singular. Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA) appears in 11 of 35 News & Magazines apps.
Native Android leads the category, used by 26 of 35 analyzed News & Magazines apps.
35 News & Magazines apps, with an average of 10.2 SDKs each, against 11.6 across the whole catalog.
FlyTrap ranks SDKs by how much more often they appear in News & Magazines apps than in the rest of the catalog, not by raw popularity. That filters out staples like Firebase and surfaces the integrations specific to News & Magazines.
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