The number of new projects started for the App Store nearly tripled in January, as the month was dominated by hype for and the announcement of Apple's iPad.

Flurry Analytics on Friday released its latest edition of the "Smartphone Industry Pulse" for January 2010. The mobile analysis firm, which has tracking data in over 20,000 mobile applications, said developers integrating Flurry analytics into iPhone OS applications in January increased nearly three times over December's total.

More than 1,600 new applications for Flurry started in January, when less than 600 at the beginning of December 2010 represents the largest increase in history, the analysis starts the company's follow-up.

"Thus, we hypothesize that the excitement generated by Apple's iPad event in January to guide the growth,"the company said."For developers who are customizing their applications to skip the iPad, may have the opportunity to stand out early on, and make more money on downloads."

Apple revealed the iPad the event that there is over 140.000 applications available on the mobile App Store. That the software is compatible with the iPad when it first appeared in the end of March.

But developers can also create a new iPad specific applications that take advantage of multi-touch device and its 9.7-inch display

While the App Store as a huge growth of new Android applications increased by about 25 percent in January, continues a steady ramp in Google's mobile platform. However, Apple's App Store spike helped to push it further before Android.

"Although the Android's new application for a steady growth in the second half of 2009 closed the gap against the iPhone, and it was even one of the three new application for Flurry starts in December, the last Spike Apple iPad support has swung the pendulum back to Apple's benefit level was observed Flurry six months,", the report states."In an unprecedented rise in support iPad is a positive indicator of the beginning of its commercial potential. "

[via Apple Insider]