About five times more users update their site via email than by using the Posterous website itself, with 50% of those bloggers sending in posts from their smartphones (Posterous has an iPhone app, and an Android app due out in December).
In-app purchasing is a wildly popular feature on iOS devices and in the Android Market, allowing app developers to cash in on their existing userbase.
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There is a native iPhone app that works on iPad and an Android app is in the works, likely to be released this summer.
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Download via Android app: Users can download personal movie collections to Android devices within the VUDU app in digital format so they can enjoy their favorite flicks on the go, without the need for an Internet connection.
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Camera Awesome is free, but it is only available for Apple's iOS devices. (SmugMug CEO and Chief Geek Don MacAskill, says an Android app is in the works.) Though the app includes 36 free effects, including presets, filters, textures and frames, 261 effects must be bought as an in-app purchase for 99 cents per set of nine.
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Ask has an iPhone app that has been downloaded over 500, 000 times, and an Android app is in the works.
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Currently ReapSo is only available on the iPhone, but they have plans to launch an Android app in the near future.
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To celebrate all this viewing, it's going to be launching an Android app in the coming weeks, which will remotely control the TV and recordings, essentially catching up to the iOS version already out there.
The VoterHub app is available today for Android and Windows Mobile users in their app stores, and will be available in the Apple app store soon.
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This latest promotion comes just after a SwiftKey X Thanksgiving weekend promotion, which saw the app rise to No. 1 in the global Android Market paid app chart.
The absence of this crucial feature in the app itself might be more understandable if it weren't for the fact that the Android app has the editing functionality built-in (although it essentially wraps the web app to do so), and there's no technical restriction preventing Google from actually adding it into the iOS app.
Lookout said it recently found a text-generating strain of malware in a copied version of the "Angry Birds Space" app on Anzhi, an app store in China for Android devices.
Users like free apps, perhaps helping to explain the ramp in Android app downloads.
And they are doing this by not trying to compete with iOS and Android for in-app revenue.
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More than 1 million Android users downloaded the app in the first 24 hours, and it became the talk of the town online.
Medlock, who has a PhD from Cambridge in applied natural language processing, and Reynolds, a fellow Cambridge graduate and former trainee with the British government, founded their company in August 2008 and launched their first keyboard app for Android in 2010.
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An app discovery platform, Hooked, has been trying to do that in the chaotic marketplace of Android app stores.
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To be clear: You are not going to see a version of Office showing up in the Apple App Store or the Android Marketplace in the near-tern.
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Myspace also launches the mobile platform in mid-November, accessible from any mobile browser, as well as an iPhone and Android app to follow later in the year.
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McSherry, who in a former life was the CEO of Android keyboard app Swype, acquired by Nuance in 2011, says that consumers are still getting used to the idea of talking to their smartphones.
It's already working on an Android app for release in 2011 as well as custom firmware, co-developed with Y-cam, that will simplify setup and provide exclusive baby monitoring features to WiFi Baby owners.
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In the meantime, Android users will have access to a compatible app in Google Play beginning tomorrow -- just in time to start using those freshly unboxed smartwatches. iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users will be able to display notifications and control music in the meantime, though advanced features like watchface and OS updates won't be possible until the app is ready for download.
Facebook is the largest social network in the world, and it was the most used mobile app across iOS and Android devices in the United States in 2012, according to recent comScore numbers.
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In both the Android and iPhone app stores, Onavo is rated 4.5 out of 5 with thousands of people chiming in.
In mid-May, the company launched an iPhone app, after releasing its Android version in April.
Field Trip, a new Android app that came out in September is like carrying a knowledgeable Angelino with you in your back pocket.
The throwback drugstores were the only two retailers to receive positive ratings for both Apple iOS and Android-focused apps in the study, which scraped every review in the Apple App Store and Google Play store for Android apps and ranked them for their positive or negative response.
All apps will be available for free in the iOS and Android app stores.
Hassell and Macaulay built a proof-of-concept for that spoofing attack using a fake sign-in for the Skype Android app.
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For worried parents, the device brings an interesting twist: there's also a mobile iOS or Android companion app to monitor your offspring in real-time from any locale.
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