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Crates / android_system_properties

Rust crate · real downloads · data Oct 24, 2026

android_system_properties downloads, and should you depend on it?

Minimal Android system properties wrapper crates.io · docs · repository

Owned on crates.io by nical · is it still maintained?

Pulled inShould you depend on android_system_properties? The data says

Few direct dependents and steady.

android_system_properties: only 13 crates name it directly; most of its downloads come in through iana-time-zone; downloads don't spike on releases.

980Kreal downloads a day (quiet-day median)
13crates depend on it
3 monthssince the last release (0.1.6)
+6%quiet-day trend vs the field, 90 days
How this verdict is decided (4 rules)
  • Usage: crates.io reverse dependencies (crates that list it as a dependency): 10,000+ = foundational, 1,000+ = widely used, 100+ = established, under 100 = few direct dependents.
  • Direction: the median quiet day in the last 30 days of the window against the first 30, read against the median tracked crate (the whole field moved +39% from late summer to October, so a raw trend says nothing). 10%+ ahead of the field = gaining; 10%+ behind = losing ground; otherwise steady. Steady with no release in 2+ years = quiet for years.
  • Release spikes: the median release-window day against the quiet-day baseline: under 1.15x = no spike, 1.15x to 1.3x = small bumps, 1.3x or more = jumps on release days.
  • Release recency: days since the newest version that was not yanked, from crates.io publish times.
Data: crates.io API, Jul 27, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026, fetched Oct 24, 2026. Downloads are not users: read the baseline as steady use, not a head count.
2026-07-27: 850,7182026-07-28: 896,4632026-07-29: 914,6132026-07-30: 903,7582026-07-31: 868,6742026-08-01: 598,8552026-08-02: 631,1772026-08-03: 898,8372026-08-04: 950,5262026-08-05: 941,589 (release window)2026-08-06: 816,385 (release window)2026-08-07: 930,7782026-08-08: 560,1892026-08-09: 517,9552026-08-10: 898,9052026-08-11: 965,0722026-08-12: 962,5542026-08-13: 1,002,6532026-08-14: 948,1762026-08-15: 593,0542026-08-16: 598,4242026-08-17: 888,6552026-08-18: 973,1412026-08-19: 931,0412026-08-20: 1,016,9942026-08-21: 967,4852026-08-22: 594,0142026-08-23: 584,1112026-08-24: 954,6832026-08-25: 1,007,6072026-08-26: 1,032,5832026-08-27: 1,008,0512026-08-28: 981,2452026-08-29: 564,3092026-08-30: 547,5862026-08-31: 883,1642026-09-01: 1,086,0392026-09-02: 1,178,7902026-09-03: 1,146,0502026-09-04: 1,021,4462026-09-05: 674,7822026-09-06: 620,7372026-09-07: 903,1462026-09-08: 1,068,1782026-09-09: 1,134,7022026-09-10: 1,106,4372026-09-11: 980,3582026-09-12: 628,9672026-09-13: 625,2492026-09-14: 1,130,6772026-09-15: 1,266,9002026-09-16: 1,128,3872026-09-17: 1,149,1572026-09-18: 1,108,3582026-09-19: 697,1802026-09-20: 715,0142026-09-21: 1,096,8932026-09-22: 1,128,9912026-09-23: 1,172,7632026-09-24: 1,200,3822026-09-25: 1,120,6472026-09-26: 731,1642026-09-27: 717,2202026-09-28: 1,320,7672026-09-29: 1,334,6682026-09-30: 1,304,9862026-10-01: 1,354,8442026-10-02: 1,294,1212026-10-03: 838,8442026-10-04: 753,4232026-10-05: 1,178,3682026-10-06: 1,330,4042026-10-07: 1,387,5062026-10-08: 1,453,3712026-10-09: 1,357,1182026-10-10: 946,5222026-10-11: 867,8502026-10-12: 1,318,7272026-10-13: 1,479,5002026-10-14: 1,597,5932026-10-15: 1,578,4382026-10-16: 1,484,9102026-10-17: 894,1922026-10-18: 858,4072026-10-19: 1,519,4112026-10-20: 1,632,3712026-10-21: 1,650,7102026-10-22: 1,616,2172026-10-23: 1,551,909

release window (release day + next day)quiet dayquiet-day median · download the 89 days as CSV

The numbers in one paragraphandroid_system_properties got 90,627,815 crates.io downloads from Jul 27, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026. 2% of them landed within 2 days of one of its 1 release. On the other 87 quiet days it got a median of 980,358 a day, about 6,862,506 a week. Capping release days at that baseline leaves 90,627,815 release-adjusted downloads for the window.

What this means if you're choosing a dependency

  • You rarely add this one yourself. Only 13 crates name it directly; its downloads arrive through iana-time-zone.
  • Actively released. 0.1.6 shipped 3 months ago (Aug 5, 2026).
  • Still pre-1.0 (0.1.6). Under Cargo's semver rules a 0.x minor bump may break you, so pin the minor version (android_system_properties = "0.1") and read the changelog on upgrades.
  • Fit check: license MIT OR Apache-2.0, edition 2018 (from the latest version's manifest).
  • Compare it by the baseline, not the raw count. 2% of its 90,627,815 downloads in the window landed within 2 days of a release; the steady number is 980,358 a day.

Its place in the dependency graph

Built on android_system_properties

1 of the 1000 crates we track depend on it directly (biggest first).

android_system_properties builds on

Tracked crates its latest version (0.1.6) depends on.

What the chart says

  • Weekend quiet days ran at 57% of weekday quiet days (630,072 vs 1,108,358). A dip that deep is the signature of work-week CI pipelines and developers building on weekdays.
  • Biggest day: 1,650,710 on Oct 21, 2026, a quiet day with no release nearby.

Every number

All-time downloads341,380,126 (rank #386 on crates.io by all-time downloads)
Downloads in the window90,627,815 (Jul 27, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026, 89 days)
Within 2 days of a release1,757,974 (1.9%)
Quiet-day median (baseline)980,358 a day; weekdays 1,108,358, weekends 630,072
Release-adjusted downloads90,627,815 (release-window days capped at the baseline)
Baseline rank#385 of the 1000 crates we track
Quiet-day trend+47% raw, +6% against the median tracked crate (+39%)
Releases in the window1
Versions published, ever6
Latest version0.1.6, published Aug 5, 2026 (license MIT OR Apache-2.0, edition 2018)
First publishedJun 27, 2022
Reverse dependencies13

Releases in the window

Each one opens a 2-day release window on the chart.

VersionPublishedDownloads that version got (lifetime)
0.1.6Aug 5, 202627,109,641

How we compute this

crates.io counts every download, including CI runners, mirrors and bots that fetch each new version, so raw counts run high (why, in The Manual). We split the last 89 days into release windows (the day a version of android_system_properties was published, plus the next day) and quiet days, and use the median quiet day as the baseline: an upper bound on steady use, never a head count. The method and data come from our study of 90 days of crates.io data from 69 crates, featured in This Week in Rust #674; check any crate live with the real-downloads checker.

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