Android app tidal wave coming, says Flurry

October 26, 2009 | Paul Boutin | Comments | |

As app developers rush to prepare for the launch of Verizon’s Droid smartphone in November, new applications for Google’s open-source Android mobile platform have spiked 94% between September and October, according to app developer analytics provider Flurry.

“Developers who used to develop only for iPhone are now adding Android applications to their line up in record numbers,” Flurry president and CEO Simon Khalaf said in a prepared statement. “Flurry market data shows that Android continues to gain interest from application developers.”

Roughly 500 developers have adopted Flurry’s Android analytics tools, from which the company derives its stats.
androidstarts

Next Story: Millennial moms taking over the Internet, study says
Previous Story: Adobe and Salesforce.com combine their tools for business apps

Bookmark and Share

Photo of Paul Boutin

About the Author, Paul Boutin

Paul (paul@venturebeat.com) covers Apple & the iPhone, social networks & social media, digital music & video, and any crazy Internet story. Paul wrote and edited for Valleywag from 2006-2008, after several years with Wired magazine and Slate. He writes regularly for The New York Times' technology section and sometimes for Wired and The Wall Street Journal. He studied computer science at MIT in the early 1980s, and worked as a software developer and network administrator for 15 years before becoming a professional writer. Follow him on Twitter at @paulboutin, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.

  • Name
    And 500 developers are about to experience Android Regret...unless they are just doing it for fun and plan to earn a living some other way...