Well, each day we get to see either an Android based tablet or smartphone being launched in India, which fall in the highly affordable category. Recent reports suggest that Android activations have jumped 400 per cent in the country. According to a recent report by Bloomberg and Dow Jones, Google has registered more than 700,000 applications in its Google Play at the moment. From the India point of view, this is a great opportunity for home-grown application developers as app downloads have increased greatly in the country and also, India has become the fourth largest market in Android app downloads. 
One of the key problems with Google Play is that most of the applications are simply a clone of popular ones, while several others are malware in disguise of games and wallpapers. Google still lacks applications optimised for tablets and is expecting that the popularity of Nexus 7 will drive developers to build apps exclusively for the tablets.
According to Google, “Over the past year, Android device activations in India have jumped more than 400 per cent, bringing millions of new users to Google Play and driving huge increases in app downloads. In the last six months, Android users in India downloaded more apps than in the previous three years combined, and India has rocketed to become the fourth-largest market worldwide for app downloads. To help developers capitalize on this tremendous growth, we are launching Google Play seller support in India.”
Now, developers in India can sell paid applications, in-app products, and subscriptions in Google Play, with monthly payouts to their local bank accounts. They can take advantage of all of the tools offered by Google Play to monetise their products in the best way for their businesses, and they can target their products to the paid ecosystem of hundreds of millions of users in India and across the world, according to Android developers blog.
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