The Indian app ecosystem has seen tremendous growth over the last few years, giving rise to a robust app developer community. India’s appetite for smartphone adoption continues to grow as smartphone numbers are expected to hit an estimated 204 million in 2016, making India the second largest smartphone market globally.
- 94% the Android OS platform dominates the market with highest contribution in terms of smartphone web traffic.
- 4.35 billion apps downloaded by Indian Android users from Google Play Store between April 2015 and March 2016.
- 72% is the share commanded by apps in the total downloads. Games acount for 28 per cent downloads.
- 2,07,706 is the no. of publishers India has on Google Play Store, with an average of 2.4 apps per publisher as of March 2016.
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‘Business’ apps rank the highest among all app genres in terms of number of developers publishing apps on Google Play Store.
Source: VMAX report titled ‘Developer’s Compass to the App Galaxy’
