However mobile application market has split among several mobile platforms with the majority shares among Android, iOS and Windows Phone.
In 2015, there are about 1,600,000 applications on the Google Play Store (Android market), 1,500,000 applications on the Apple App Store and 340,000 applications on Windows Phone Store.
Mobile applications development community must target all of these major mobile platforms for the success of their applications, leading to cross-platform mobile application development.