Android Application Development - The Next Gen Smartphones Are Upon Us

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 mobile developers for immediate publishing and feedback. And most importantly Android teams can provide Android web 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

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.