Google is increasingly able in the ‘fragmentation’ in the Android operating system to push back. At this moment, almost four in ten smartphones on Android 4.4 Kitkat.
The Android operating system has for years plagued by so-called “fragmentation” between the different versions. Unlike, for example Apple’s iOS operating system, which new versions are also suitable for products that are two to three years, manufacturers of Android smartphones less concerned with the up-to-date of existing smartphones. Older smartphones thus preserve often older versions of Android, which creates problems for app developers should continue to support long older versions of Android
Android fragmentation on January 5, 2015 (source: Google Developers)
With the introduction of Android 4.4 Kitkat Google has made it easier for manufacturers to roll out updates to existing devices. Google it obliges manufacturers now to always use the latest version of Android for new smartphones. These measures have an impact, because the last few months, the fragmentation is significantly declining.
Currently running for nearly four in ten smartphones on Android 4.4 Kitkat, one of the latest versions of Android. To be precise, is currently running 39.1 percent of all Android smartphones on Android 4.4. The three ‘Jellybean’ versions of Android (Android 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3) together have a large share of 46 percent.
It is noteworthy that Google, in its report on the “fragmentation” of Android still no figures are given for the distribution of Android 5.0 Lollipop, the latest version of Android, which was officially unveiled in October last year. That suggests that currently less than 0.1 percent of all active Android smartphones running on Android 5.0 Lollipop.
The oldest reported version of Android is now 4.5 years old Android 2.2 Froyo. This Android version is expected to be within a few months from the list. At the moment turn 4 of the 1000 active Android smartphones on the old version of Android. At the time, the share drops below 0.1 percent, Google will stop reporting these figures.
Google measures the monthly “fragmentation” of the Android operating system by looking for 7 days which Android smarpthones visit the Google Play Store and on which version of the Android platform run these devices. This information is particularly important for application developers. App developers can decide on the basis of statistics which Android versions they support and to examine any ‘potential’ left them when they do not support earlier versions of Android.
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