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How Many Apps Are In The Android Marketplace

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The Android marketplace is now known as Google Play but that doesn’t change the number or the quality of the apps available. These apps and their number are so important because the modern hardware of the smartphones that you can find on the market is not impressive until you also add a sophisticated app that can put it to the test. That’s why every mobile phone platform that’s popular on the market makes available a special app store that advertises all the safe and worthy apps compatible with that platform. For instance, there’s the Google Play we’ve been talking about for Android smartphones and the Apple App Store for iPhone owners. In addition, there are also stores like Amazon’s Appstore that try to cover the demand for certain devices such as Amazon’s Kindle Fire. So, when you are interested in discovering the capabilities of such a store you should care about more than just the number of apps available.

How Many Apps Are In The Android Marketplace

How Many Apps Are In The Android Marketplace

If you were to care only about the number of apps, you should know that Google Play made available in April of 2012 a total of 430,000 apps. This number is actually updated on a daily basis by website like AppBrain which make it their business to keep track of the number of apps available in the Android marketplace. What’s also interesting to know is that from those 430,000 apps available in April on Google Play, 311,000 of them were downloadable for free. That means over 70 percent of the total Google Play content is usually available for free. By contrast, if you were to be more of an App Store fan, you would be able to enjoy around 615,000 apps. That’s a significantly larger number, but doesn’t offer the same percentage of free apps. Instead of the over 70 percent of Google Play you will enjoy only 46 percent free content. So, considering that the average price of an app that Apple decides to make part of its App Store is $2.02, you should start saving money.

If you want to take into account more factors before saying that one marketplace is better or worse than the other one, you should stop at analyzing the number of developers that make possible the addition of those apps we are so found of. Well, considering that the Android market is considered to be in control of more than 50 percent of the entire smartphone market you would think that most developers are focusing especially on delivering apps for this free platform. That’s a wrong assumption because studies have shown that app developers aren’t that found of the Android platform. That’s why the number of developers that deliver their skills as apps in the App Store is four times higher than the number of developers that try to impress the Android market with useful apps. This phenomenon is explained by the specialists as a normal reaction of app developers to the news that Apple customers are more inclined than Android customers to pay for the apps they use on a daily basis. After all, money is the foundation of any activity, so developers need to know that their hard work will be repaid.

What you should also know is that if you are interested in increasing the number of apps available in the Android marketplace or in the Apple App Store you will have to cover the cost of a membership fee. Google has decided to set this fee at $25 in order to discourage any so-called developers that aren’t serious about their work. On the other hand, Apple requires $99 from all its developers no mater if they are companies or individuals. The fee of Apple may be higher, but the support offered is better. All you have to do in order to develop some interesting iOS apps or some Mac apps is install Xcode. In addition, if you are interested in focusing on iOS development you will have to master only C/C++, JavaScript or Objective-C because these are the only programming languages that can be handled by the WebKit engine of an iPhone. On the other hand, the Android platform offers its SDK for free but getting that SDK to work is not simple at all. In addition, even if most of the Android apps made available tend to be coded using Java, the use of C or C++ as main programming language is not forbidden.

How Many Apps Are In The Android Marketplace

How Many Apps Are In The Android Marketplace

What I must also let you know about Google Play and its apps is that they benefit from a brand new interface that many consider to be excellent. The main page has been modified, so you can now access one of the 4 sections of interest extremely fast. The four sections are Apps, Music, Books and Movies. If you choose Apps you will discover 27 categories that are designed to logically organize the large number of apps available. Among those categories you will find one dedicated to Games and even one designed to help you focus only on widgets. There are also categories that care less about app type and more about app availability (free or paid) or popularity.

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