The phrase "advent of applications" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the arrival or introduction of various applications, particularly in the context of technology or software.
Example: "The advent of applications has transformed the way we interact with technology and access information."
Alternatives: "emergence of applications" or "arrival of applications".
The advent of online applications, and the Common Application now used by about 500 colleges, has made it much easier to add to a student's list without much thought.
The trend of the past several years will continue unabated in the enterprise software industry, which has been turned upside down by the advent of Web applications that can be produced far more quickly and cheaply than enterprise resource planning systems.
The advent of targeted applications of immune-based therapies offers children with cancer a new class of oncolytic therapies that may be used to treat disease refractory to conventional approaches and lessen the toxicity of current treatment regimens without compromising remission.
Now, with the advent of these applications, we're suddenly getting picky and filtering by eyebrow color and arm hair density.
With the advent of computers, applications for morphometric analysis based on Thompson's idea became possible.
The issue of breast density and overlying tissue may be resolved with the advent of digital applications such as tomosynthesis.
Well before the advent of the application of DFC to EHVRs as mentioned above, Sánchez-Sesma et al. (2011) applied the concept to the horizontal-to-vertical ratios of microtremors (MHVR) to derive a formula with horizontal and vertical Green's functions of a point force on the surface.
However, interest in aerobic glycolysis has significantly expanded with the advent of widespread application of FdG-PET imaging.
But the advent of ready-made applications and graphical user interfaces in the 1980s saw a shift to teaching "ICT" (information and communications technology): how to use computers for word-processing, creating presentations and the like.
