Use Android 5.0 Lollipop doubles in one month – GSM Helpdesk Netherlands

Seven months after the introduction of Android 5.0 Lollipop is the great new Android version clearly working on a hefty advance. In the past month, using Android 5.0 Lollipop has almost doubled, thanks to the numerous updates that manufacturers meanwhile roll out to existing smartphones and the arrival of new smartphones that right out of the box to run on the latest Android version

Android Fragmentation in May 2015 (source: Google Developers)

Each month, Google figures on the so-called “fragmentation” between different Android versions. Unlike Microsoft (Windows Phone) and Apple (iOS) Android operating system suffers from a huge fragmentation because not all Android smartphones released an 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 Google releases monthly therefore mainly intended for app developers.

The last major new Android version, Android 5.0 Lollipop, now running at 9 percent of all active Android smartphones. Thus, the market share increased significantly compared to last month when 5 percent of all Android devices running at this Android version. Google has meanwhile also been reported Lollipop Android 5.1, a minor update to Android 5.0 with some bugfixes. This version is now running at 0.7 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 past month in terms of share first decreased. The record of 41.4 percent from last month is now further tightened Android 4.4 Kitkat still running at 39.8 percent of all active Android smartphones.

Android 5.0 and Android 5.1 are currently the only Android versions that grow. Older versions of Android have in the past month, all see their share. In Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, the share went down from 5.6 to 5.5 percent. Android 4.2 Jelly Bean went from 18.6 to 18.1 percent and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean lost 0.9 percent fell to 15.6 percent.

The previous biggest new Android version, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, also fell hard and see its share decline from 5.7 to 5.3 percent.

It is now four years old Android 2.3 Gingerbread turned on May 4 still at 5.7 per cent 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 is social with simple Android smartphones.

The now nearly five years old Android 2.2 Froyo Android version turned on May 4 still at 0.3 percent of all active Android devices. Thus, the share for the first time in months declined slightly. This Android version is expected to come within a few months from the list. Are running 3 of the 1,000 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 what 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 and they still support what ‘potential’ left them when they no longer support previous versions of Android.