Mobile applications are major players in the world of E-commerce

The advance of mobile technologies have turned handheld devices a part of people's daily life, such as in communication and entertainment. E-commerce turned the entire world into a global marketplace. This paper presents an overview of uses of mobile applications in the field of e-commerce. In modern information and communication system, mobile application is one of the most concerned and rapidly developing areas. This paper focuses on the popurality of Android and types of mobile applications. This paper also describes that how individual mobile user and Indian e-commerce companies promote using mobile applications and the popularity of the mobile application.