The use of Android based smartphones is flourishing, with thousands of Android apps being already developed by now. In a very short span of time, large number of mobile manufacturers is getting associated with Android. According to the recent study, the Android smartphone market is growing at an impressive rate of 32 per cent every month, with new handsets being released every other time. Industry experts believe this detonation owes much to the popularity of the Samsung S II, MotoBLUR, Motorola Droid, certain HTC models, and the open-source nature of the operating System. The biggest advantage of Android application development is that applications are built on an open source platform so the android developers do not encounter precincts that other smartphone platforms generally face. Android also presents an open market place to the third party Android application developers for immediate publishing and feedback. And most importantly Android teams can provide Android application development on any platform like Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
Some of the best handpicked Android apps are listed below: Google Voice Advanced Task Killer Dropbox Evernote DroidAnalytics Documents To Go Amazon Kindle Places Directory Tripit Seesmic FCC Speedtest Astro File Manager Gist TED Mobile Pandora Got To Do Shazam Dial Zero Google Goggles Google Sky Map Tricorder FxCamera Photoshop Mobile Bump Barcode Scanner Some of the latest functionalities in Android application development that have recently become popular include Cloud based service integration that enables the companies to efficiently manage IT and also extend its reach using mobile apps, another is Location based services where companies can get a LBS app on Android where in the application can find out the location of the customer via GPS and give them the detailed information they are looking for, and many more. It is also said that android phones will become credit cards in near future and people will be able to purchase things with the help of the android phones. This will act as a starting step to e-Commerce companies to extend them on the mobile platform which will make shopping easy and fun for the customer. Additionally, if we talk about Android market which is the Android App store, Distimo Research Company says that it has shown a significant growth over the years when it comes to download of applications and it has also been predicted that the growth will be tremendous in coming years. Android application development is expected to reinvigorate sales with its additional features and low cost.
