Most of the world relies on two main sources—Google Play and iOS—to download apps. China is not most of the world.
Because of various government-imposed restrictions, the country boasts many app stores. And as you can imagine, it is particularly difficult to reliably track key performance metrics, discover new trends, understand SDK usage, etc.
China has an estimated 500 million smartphone users, which dwarfs the user base of nearly every other country on Earth. Because China is one of the biggest—and potentially lucrative—markets out there, Apptopia is starting to invest heavily in expanding our data set into this market.
We’ve decided to start with the three most popular Chinese app stores:
We are starting by providing key meta data points as well as a full SDK Analysis (including what SDKs are both installed and used by these apps). You can see a full list of what data points we provide here.
This data is available immediately as an upgrade via our API.
Two Important Notes: