Analytics firm Flurry enunciated 1.2 billion apps were downloaded in the lastly week of December.

Activity was buoyed by the facts that many users received young devices for Xmas and firms offered discounted apps over the holiday period.

The US was responsible for nearly half of the downloads, followed by China and the UK.

With 81 million downloads, the UK easily surpassed Canada (41 million), Germany (40 million) and France (40 million).

It was beaten to instant billet by China with 99 million downloads. The US was away before with 509 million.

Flurry thinks this degree of download activity will got more standard.

“Looking forward to 2012, Flurry expects breaking the one billion download barrier per hebdomad will become more commonplace,” the firm88 articulated in its blog..

“While [Apple] iOS and [Google] Android ontogenesis continues to amaze, the market is even by completely measures relatively nascent.”

Unsurprisingly, Xmas proved a roar time for device makers. Flurry estimated that nearly seven million Android devices and iPhones were activated on Christmas Day.

Apple does not disclose such figures but Google confirmed that more than 3.7 million Android devices were activated over the Christmas weekend.