The vast majority of mobile applications are being developed for Apple`s iOS platform -- and the percentage is rising. That`s the takeaway from a new report by Flurry Analytics, which shows that the number of app project starts for Google`s Android is less than half those for iOS.
The report found that 69 percent of application development projects in the first quarter of this year were for Apple`s OS, and 31 percent for Android. The percentage of apps for iOS has increased by 6 percent from the same period last year.
Apple`s Advantages
Android`s percentage has also increased slightly, topping 30 percent for the first time in this new report. The previous high-level mark for Android in Flurry`s reports was 27 percent last quarter. In the last five quarters, about 63 percent to 75 percent of application project starts have been for iOS.
The findings come as developers for the two platforms head out later this month to their respective annual developer conferences -- the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference and Google I/O.
Flurry Analytics provides several reasons for Apple`s huge advantage in app development. First, iOS apps work on both iPhone and iPads.
"Apple offers the most compelling `build once, run anywhere` value proposition in the market today, delivering maximum consumer reach to developers for minimal cost," Flurry said
And, of course, the iPad remains overwhelmingly dominant in the tablet category. Flurry`s analysis shows the iPad with 88 percent of the market. The Samsung Galaxy Tab takes a distant second at 9 percent, with Amazon`s Kindle Fire at 3 percent.
There`s also the fragmentation in the Android market, which Flurry predicts will increase because of device and firmware differences.
Android Fragmentation
In terms of devices, the company noted that 17 of the top 20 Android handsets have market shares of 6 percent or less, and...
App Developers Increasingly Choose iOS over Android
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