Substantial shifts in Android fragmentation – GSM Helpdesk Netherlands

06-06-2014 – Android 4.4 Kitkat, currently the latest version of Android, is making a big push. Not to minus the share of Android 2.3 Gingerbread from 2010 still higher

By:. Tim Wijkman – Last month, significant shifts occurred within the so- fragmentation “among all Android versions. We continuously measure how much Android smartphones in use and turning these devices on which version of Android. Monthly publishes Google a list containing the share of each Android version so that application developers can decide which Android versions they continue to support their applications and the Android versions do not.

class=”c2″> Version	Name	May	June	Difference
2.2	Froyo	1.0%	0.8%	0.2% src=”http://www.gsmhelpdesk.nl/img/trend-down.jpg”
2.3	Gingerbread	16.2%	14.9%	1 3% src=”http://www.gsmhelpdesk.nl/img/trend-down.jpg”
3.1 / 3.2	Honeycomb	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
4.0	Ice Cream Sandwich	13.4%	12.3%	1.1%
4.1	Jelly Bean	33.5%	29.0%	4.5%
4.2	Jelly Bean	18.8%	19.1%	0.3% src=”http://www.gsmhelpdesk.nl/img/trend-up.jpg”
4.3	Jelly Bean	8.5%	10.3%	1.8%
4.4	KitKat	8.5%	13.6%	5.1%
class=”c4″ colspan=”5″> GSM Helpdesk Netherlands © – Source: Android Developers

Android 4.4 Kitkat gaining considerable ground
Currently Android 4.4 Kitkat the latest version of Android. This version of Android is now little more than half a year available and the share of Android 4.4 Kitkat is making a big push. In the period between May 1 and June 1, the share of Android 4.4 Kitkat increased by as much as 5.1 percent. This is currently running 13.6 percent of all Android smartphones that are actively used on Android 4.4 Kitkat. The substantial increase is mainly due to the arrival of several new smartphones including ‘flagships’ as the HTC One M8 Samsung Galaxy S5 Sony Xperia Z2 and the Huawei Ascend P7.

3.5 year old Android 2.3 Gingerbread still narrowly ahead
Despite the sharp rise of Android 4.4 Kitkat now know more than 3.5 years old this latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread version of Android is still to stay. The share of Android 2.3 otherwise it falls sharply in recent months, and last month again fell by 1.3 percent as users of “old” Android smartphones with Android 2.3 on the scale of the steps to newer Android smartphones with more current versions. Android 2.3 Gingerbread currently has a share of 14.9 percent. The sharp decline in the share of Android 2.3 and the sharp rise in the share of Android 4.4 ensures expected this month that Android 4.4 Kitkat the 3.5 year old Android 2.3 version is catching up in terms of proportion.

Reporting on Android 3.1 and 3.2 Honeycomb disappears
Google is also stopped reporting figures 3.1 and Android 3.2 Honeycomb, the old “tablet” version of Android. With the advent of Android 4.x is the need to use disappeared, Android 3.1 or 3.2 Honeycomb Android 4.x as well as on smartphones, on tablets can run. Until last month, Google reported that Android 3.1 / 3.2 still had a share of 0.1 percent. This has now dropped to ‘nil’ that Google no longer reports this version of Android.

Share Android 2.2 Froyo drops below 1 percent
The oldest version of Android where Google still reports it is now four years old Android 2.2 Froyo. The share of Android 2.2 Froyo has also long been declining and is now below 1 percent hiding. In May, only 1 percent of all active Android smartphones on Android 2.2, turned in June, this was only 0.8 percent. The expectation is that the share of Android 2.2 Froyo before the end of the year under the ‘zero’ line will drop and Google will also stop reporting data on this Android version.

Android 4.x on more than 84 percent of all devices
Of all Android smartphones currently in use, running 84.3 percent of the devices on Android 4.0 or higher. In terms of share of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with a share of 29 per cent over-all the most widely used version of Android, though the share of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean lately even declining. Only the three most recent versions of Android see their share increase, though slows the growth of the share of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean meanwhile al

Google monthly measure the “fragmentation” of the Android operating system by over 7 days to see what Android smarpthones visit the Google Play Store and turn these devices on which version of the Android platform. This information is particularly important for application developers. App developers can based on the statistics decide which Android versions they are supporting and what ‘potential’ leave them at the moment they do not support earlier versions of Android.