Android in China

There are an estimated 700 million active smartphones and tablets in China – the majority of whom are on Android. That’s a huge business opportunity for serving up apps and games.

And why mobile app developers should be rooting for Google.

The world’s biggest search provider faces off against the world’s biggest country.

Apple and China: they play well together. Google and China: not the best of friends. Actually, that’s an understatement. Back in 2010, a highly publicized dispute erupted between the Chinese

“Include the massive Chinese Android app stores, and Android didn’t just dominate download volumes, it made more money than iOS last year.”

China’s Baidu just confirmed that Android skin, called Yun OS, will not get any more updates. The project is now suspended.

Now that Motorola is owned by China’s Lenovo, Moto is making a return to the country – but minus all the Google apps.

China currently has 519.7 million active smartphone users, according to new data from Emarketer.

The number of daily active Android users in China has doubled from Q1 2013 to Q2 2014. Check out the chart.

Finally, after years of waiting, app developers in China can now make money from their Android apps in the Google Play store.