Kitkat at over 30% all Android devices – Telecompaper

Android KitKat was early November at 30.2 percent of all Android devices. Another 50.9 percent runs on three different versions of Jelly Bean. According to figures that Google has published over the week to November 3rd. On its developer blog

Gradually reduce the fragmentation of the Android OS. Early September possessed 24.5 percent of all Android devices over KitKat. In early August turned 20.9 percent of all Android devices on KitKat, against 17.9 percent in early July and 13.6 percent in early June. In January, the share of KitKat was still at 1.4 percent in May to 8.5 percent. Google has Kitkat (now version 4.4) was introduced in October 2013.

Most of the new KitKat users comes from Jelly Bean (4.1.x, 4.2.x and 4.3) that in September, 54 percent of all active Android devices was. There are no figures on the distribution of Android 5.0 Lolliop, which was launched in October. On 3 November the Nexus and Nexus 6 9 – both feature Android 5.0 Lollipop – in sales

Ice Cream Sandwich, early September accounted for 9.6 percent, was in August can still be found. more than one tenth of the Android devices. Now it still stands at 8.5 percent of all active Android devices. The relatively old Gingerbread in August had a share of 13.6 percent. That fell to 11.4 percent in September and early November to 9.8 percent. Android 2.2 Froyo dropped slightly from 0.7 percent to 0.6 percent.

the fragmentation of the Android ecosystem With the arrival of Android 5.0 again increase, as an Android version comes with it again. Google made earlier this year by the mouth of Android Sundar Pichai responsible known that most updates to Android features are now distributed through Google Play. Almost every Android device has the latest version of Google Play.