Six months after the launch of Android 5.0 Lollipop is the great new Android version clearly on the rise. In the past month using Android 5.0 Lollipop has grown by 1.7 percentage points, thanks to the numerous updates that manufacturers now rolling out to existing smartphones and the arrival of new smartphones that run right out of the box on the latest Android version.
Android fragmentation in April 2015 (source: Google Developers)
Each month, Google figures about the so-called “fragmentation” between different Android versions. Unlike Microsoft (Windows Phone) and Apple (iOS) Android operating system suffers from an enormous fragmentation that are not released for all Android smartphones update to newer versions of Android. This app developers need very long time continue to support old versions of Android with their apps to keep them shut to many potential users. The figures that Google delivers monthly therefore mainly intended for app developers.
The last major new Android version, Android 5.0 Lollipop, now running at 5 percent of all active Android smartphones. Thus, the market share increased significantly compared to last month was still 3.3 percent of all Android devices running at this Android version. Google is nowadays also mentions Android 5.1 Lollipop, a minor update to Android 5.0 with some bugfixes. This version is now running at 0.4 per cent of all active Android devices, probably mainly the Nexus smartphones and tablets from Google itself and some Google Play Edition devices from Samsung, Sony and HTC.
It also popular Android 4.4 Kitkat last month also expanded and tightened her record at 41.4 percent. Never got an Android version on her own such a high penetration rate.
Android 5.0 and Android 4.4 is currently the only Android versions that grow. Older versions of Android have in the past month all see their share. On Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, the share went down from 5.9 to 5.6 percent. Android 4.2 Jelly Bean went from 19.4 to 18.6 percent and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean lost 0.8 percent fell to 16.5 percent.
The last grand new Android version, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, also fell hard and see its share decline from 5.9 to 5.7 percent.
It is now four years old Android 2.3 Gingerbread turned on April 6, still 6.4 percent of all active Android smartphones. Android 2.3 Gingerbread was once one of the largest Android versions and is still “popular” because this Android version well can handle simple Android smartphones.
The now nearly five years old Android 2.2 Froyo Android version turned on April 6 still at 0.4 percent of all active Android devices. This share has remained unchanged from previous months. 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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