In the world of mobile platform technology, some of the most popular platforms are BlackBerry OS, Windows Phone, Symbian OS, and Android OS. IPhone OS is used mainly in Apple’s iPhone mobiles which can only be developed on a Mac based machine. However, Android has leaped far ahead from the other platform because it is free and secondly it is open source. Android is also the fastest growing platform at the moment. Looking at this trend many of mobile companies have now shifted to the Android OS. There are so many advantages for using the Android OS that there is hardly any justification for not using it. Already in the field of application development, Android has gained so much success. There are literally thousands of applications freely available on the Android Market. Outsourcing has also become very popular in the field of Android application development. A research by a leading market research company, Nielsen has suggested that Android is leading the race in the Smartphone industry beating their close rivals Apple’s iOS. Like Android, Apple has its own advantage but it lacks in certain areas. It is not platform independent and not an open source either. This gives it a huge disadvantage in comparison with Android.
Today Android applications have introduced new but very popular functionality in which by using GPS device installed in the smartphone, you can find the location and all the relevant information of that person. Cloud base services allow the efficient management for the companies. Some experts also suggest that very soon android phones will also transform into a Credit and ATM cards. That way they will be able to buy stuff using their mobile phone using Android.
Android Market, which is the superstore for its mobile applications, has shown a rapid increase in the downloads of their applications. Keeping this in view, we can safely say that in the coming years android applications will see take a major boost. Lot of Development is being done in this sector already. Android developers are high in demand. Android platform is also looking after the tablets market, as these tablets are the future PCs and Laptops. Google is recently bought Motorola mobility that has further made it stronger in the mobile industry.
Every day new trends and applications are emerging from the android market. Some of the applications will cost you some money but there are hundreds of other applications that are free to download. These days with emergence of powerful mobiles, quality of mobile games being developed for android smart phones is also getting better.