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App Annie, a mobile app analytics company has reported that India has grown to become the World’s 4th largest app economy. The company has also said that the time spent on apps by Indians have gone up drastically.

The companies that are ahead of India interms of yearly app downloads are China, US and Brazil. India might take a higher position given that a growth of 92% is predicted, making the total downloads to 7.7 billion and by 2020, it would reach 20.1 billion.

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App Annie APAC MD Yunde Yu said that the introduction of affordable smartphones and improved infrastructure support for smartphones combined with India’s population gives huge potential for growth in this area.

He also added that the key aspect that drives app economy now is the amount of time that users spend on mobile apps, rather than revenue or number of downloads.

In the first quarter of 2016, Indians spend more than twice the time on mobile apps than they did during the same period in 2014.

One surprising finding was that above 25% of Android users are using at least one ride-sharing app such as Ola Or Uber. This figure is below 20% in the US, UK and Brazil.

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The 4th and final developer preview of the next version of Android, named Android N has been released. Devices which has been enrolled to the Android beta program will be notified of an update to the Developer Preview Version.

You can download the final SDK from the SDK Manager in Android Studio. With this, you will be able to test your app against the official Android N APIs. You can test for new features such as Multi-window, direct reply and more.

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The Android support library has been updated to 24.0.0, allowing you to use multi-window, picture in picture callbacks, new notification features, new MediaBrowser APIs and methods for supporting Direct Boot.

The N Developer Preview is now available for Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, and Pixel C devices, as well as General Mobile 4G [Android One] devices and the Sony Xperia Z3.

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Google announced a major update on its search app, now it can give answer for more difficult queries.

The app will provide real answers for question instead of just providing web searches in numerous areas.

Ask Google “Who was Dakota Johnson’s mom in the movie?” and you’ll receive a response of Melanie Griffith, Johnson’s real-life mother, rather than Jennifer Ehle, who played the role of the mom in the movie “50 Shades of Grey.” That one’s still tricky for Google because you didn’t specify the name of the film in your question.

“We’re still growing and learning, which means we make mistakes,” Satyajeet Salgar, Product Manager said.

“The Google app is starting to truly understand the meaning of what you’re asking. We can now break down a query to understand the semantics of each piece so we can get at the intent behind the entire question”, Salgar said.

“That lets us traverse the Knowledge Graph much more reliably to find the right facts and compose a useful answer. And we can build on this base to answer harder questions”, he added.

It also has the ability to answer complex combinations where one or more answers are required.

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Facebook allows Google’s mobile search on Android to “crawl and index its app” to reflect public posts from Facebook.

Wall Street Journal, which first reported the strategic partnership, quoted a spokesperson for Alphabet (Google’s new parent holding company) as confirming the announcement. The report adds that the listings will appear as ‘deep links’.

With this new initiative, photos and posts that are public also will reflect in Google’s mobile search.

Recently Google signed with Twitter to reflect tweets directly in its mobile and app search to boost engagement.

It ensures that real-time results are reflected in mobile search.

Facebook also uses its own Graph Search internally and for anything that Graph Search can’t cover, it makes use of Microsoft’s Bing Search engine, which has been making some impressive strides.

The mobile search results will reflect only in Android Smartphones, stated on a report on The Verge.

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Google partners with Udacity and Tata Trusts and announced the launch of Android Nanodegree program in India.

This is education documentation for developers to learn new skills.

Google and Tata Trusts will provide 1000 (500 each) scholarships under which Google and Tata Trusts will sponsor the complete Android Nanodegree Program for 500 winning applicants each.

“While India has millions of software developers, we still lag behind in creating world-class apps. With the launch of this program we want to bridge the gap by providing India’s developer community an easy access to learn and build high-quality apps for the world,” said Rajan Anandan, VP & Managing Director, Google South East Asia & India.

Google shall directly pay the program fee to Udacity and the winners do not need to pay any monies to anyone for the program under scholarship.

“We are excited to be launching Udacity in India today and honored to be partnering with Google and Tata Trusts as we bring our Nanodegrees to millions of people in India,” said Sebastian Thrun, founder and CEO, Udacity.

Tata Trusts will have its own selection criteria to find the winners directly.

Winners will be contacted individually by Google and/or its representatives via contact details given during application for the program. Their names will be announced on the Google India Twitter handle and Google+ Page.

By the end of the program, students will get a different portfolio of projects to show employers, and even can publish their own app on the Google Play Store as part of the Capstone project.