Android is a type of operating system that has been designed especially for mobile phones and tablets. This operating system is based on the Linux kernel and is one of the largest installed operating systems on mobile phones. The company that is responsible for its development is Google.
1. Global Android usage
Android usage world over has provided data that is quite interesting to note with many people opting for Smartphone with android platform. There are about 35 million mobile devices in seven countries detected namely united states, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, France, India, and Australia.
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2. IOS vs Android Apps
The two operating systems that are dominating the world of Smartphone’s’ are iOS and android. From the period of 2009 to 2012 android system has taken over the market share of operating systems. Even the usage pattern indicates more of android based Smartphone’s’.
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3. Top most android play picks games
Android has many play picks games which include Angry Birds Star Wars II, Total Conquest, CSR racing, Nun attack and lastly jackpot words. All these games are the most downloaded and with most recent versions available apart from a rating for users to download and have great fun playing them.
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4. State of security in the app economy
While there are many free and cheaper apps available for download for the mobile users the biggest question that has come to light is the state of security that surrounds them. Many issues such as tampering, piracy and intellectual property theft have been reported with many apps that are downloaded by users on their mobile phones.
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5. The name’s droid Android
In the world of mobile developers some of the android trends that help in cross promotion of apps can be understood with the help of analysis of various user trends. Be it social apps or casino games or consumable goods the usage is almost equal with developers making use of iOS and android proportionately.
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6. The best android phones of 2013
Some of the latest android phones are capable of measuring many things such as acceleration, rotation, ambient air, temperature, pressure, illumination and orientation etc. many other interesting features such as phone will automatically answer when one places it on the ear and screen scrolls down with eyes movement. One should look for the latest features on the android jelly bean version of these Smartphone’.
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7. 10 Facts about Android
Android was founded a decade ago in 2003 and is a well known technology for major mobile giants such as Samsung, HTC, Motorola etc. the facts of android apps points at fact that 25% android users remove the app when it crashes, 25% of top 25 grossing games are casino games and 51% of consumers prefer mobile phones with android.
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8. IOS or android
Choosing between iOS and android is a very difficult decision to make. In terms of brand identity android is growing by the day and in terms of brand loyalty iOS is growing by the minute. Some factors that can help developers decide are essential factors such as market share, downloads, revenue, demography and profit and lastly stages of development.
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9. Design Guidelines Of iOS and android
A basic mobile user interface has essential features such as status bar, navigation bar, content display, main action bar and action bar tabs. These android apps should have the capacity to support multiple screens and also icon sizes apart from various touch gestures such as touch, long press, double touch, swipe, pinch close, pinch open, drag and shake device.
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10. Evolution of android
Android versions have undergone sea change since the time it has been developed in the year 2008 beginning with version 1.0. Then came the 1.5 cupcake followed by 1.6 donuts and 2.0 eclair in 2010.
The year 2010 even saw versions such as 2.2 froyo and 2.3 gingerbread. The year of 2012 had versions such as 3.0 honeycomb and 4.0 ice cream sandwich. The latest in the year 2013 is the development of 4.1 jelly bean followed by 5.0 key lime pie.
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11. Difference between Android Vs iPhone Users
The battle of operating systems has taken to a very high level. In order to assess this situation better the survey results can be assessed as 32% users make use of iOS apple while 21% make use of android. The usage pattern even depends on factors such as core demographics, personality, life experiences, technology, media and many other important day to day factors.
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12.User differences Of Android Vs iOS
The revenue war between iOS and android is quite interesting to note. Both the platforms have a massive scale with regard to games, apps and stores in terms of the potential to generate huge profits. The brake even point for iOS developers is 54% and that of android developers is 47%.
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13. Uncommon comparison of apps
For many years the battle between the two operating systems iOS and android has ruled the mobile market. A comparison reveals that android is more user friendly as it provides search results in a better way to users rather than iOS apart from being cheaper than the latter.
This can be validated with Google having a total market share of 74.4% while apple app store has a market share of only 18.2%.
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14. Mobile reputation
On an average there are about 1107 daily publishes apps of android as against 978 of apple and 286 of IOS. There are many applications that are considered dead and amongst these the statistics are apple has 65%, android 41% and IOS at 69%.
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15. Mobile marketing today
The next generation of services will have to be prepared for the reliance that many users are making on mobile usage and this is bound to grow substantially. There will be about 1.943 billion mobile Smartphone users in the world and 133.5 million tablet users by the year 2015.
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16. Mobile growth statistics
The growth of mobile phones has its correlation to the requirement of Smartphone that can be used just as desktop users. Statistics support this statement as 56% people in the world own a Smartphone and 50% of the users make use of mobile as a primary internet source besides users spending 80% of time on mobile on apps.
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17. What to expect from mobile world
On a review of the mobile world one can get details about the biggest mobile usage pattern with the statistics and stories surrounding them. Some of the interesting facts are there is a continued growth of mobile data around the world, breakthrough in mobile categories such as payments, cloud services, health etc.
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18. Mobile Appeal : Exploring the mobile Landscape
There are more than 1.5 million apps available and out of these 1 out of 4 app is abandoned after the first use. It is also interesting to know that there are on an average 41 apps that run on Smartphone’s’.
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