Movement in the Mobile Application Market

The mobile application market has suddenly exploded with exponential increase in the number of smart phones sold. The popularity of smart phones is increasing just because of the features that can be added through downloading the applications.

Local Search and updates:
The technology based on location has brought great changes in the world of mobile applications. The information about the location can now be used to send customized and important alerts and updates. Currently there are very few services and applications that support the localized experiences, but the near future is projected to be very bright.

Services such as Foursquare, loopt, and Gowalla are based on location and help the users know whether their friends are in the neighborhood. Not only this, but these applications also reveal the offers available in their locality.

Integrating with cloud services:
Companies such as Box.net and Dropbox are providing APIs. There are many applications that take advantage of this and build applications for accessing the files and cloud storage.

This means that when a note or document is composed on an iPad or iPhone, the document is retrievable on BlackBerry, laptop, desktop and Android device and edited too. To store the files, the Dropbox has become the default place.

QuickShot is a photo application that stores the photo directly in the Dropbox without any mediation.

The current trend is in the mobile applications to make the accessibility of data on different platforms.

The developers can discover better ways of data use through the tools for cloud storage.

Easy Access to Social Networking websites:
The connection of the Facebook and Twitter to the mobile application is not new. What is surprising is the growth of the companies using OAuth. This implies that adding support to the social networking sites has become easier for the developers.

The applications for sharing the photos over a wide variety of targets tend to be very famous. Even private applications like Path have realized the importance of permitting data posing on different networks.

Camera Apps that Face front:
Nowadays any tablet or smartphone needs to have two cameras instead of one. Usually one phone is in the front and the other one is on the back of camera.

This allows the user to have his/her photo in the real time. The support of video chat can also be integrated.

Videos and Photo Filters:
The applications for photo sharing have become very popular, especially in the later part of 2010. Among all the categories of mobile applications, photography has become the most popular. The smart phones have become the most famous cameras. Before the images are shared they can be filtered and special effects can be added.

The applications feature the tilt shift effect. The built-in filters of the application make the image more attractive and lively.

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