Lollipop Android grabs 21 percent – GSM Helpdesk Netherlands

Eleven months after the release of Android 5.0 Lollipop knows the great new Android version to maintain its growth well. In the past three months the use of Android 5.0 Lollipop and Android 1.5 Lollipop has again increased considerably, thanks to the numerous updates that manufacturers meanwhile roll out to existing smartphones and the arrival of new smartphones that run right out of the box on two new Android versions

Android fragmentation in September 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 should enable app developers very long time continue to support old versions of Android with their apps to ensure that they exclude too many potential users. The figures Google releases its monthly therefore mainly intended for app developers.

The last major new Android version, Android 5.0 Lollipop and Android 1.5 lollipop runs now (together) 21 percent of all active Android smartphones. This market share has increased significantly compared to June then (together) turned 12.4 percent of all Android devices on the Android versions. Android 1.5 is currently growing hardest. In June, Android 1.5 was still running at 0.8 percent of all Android smartphones, now at 5.1 percent.

It also popular Android 4.4 Kitkat is past three months in terms of share remained unchanged. Android 4.4 Kitkat is now running at 39.2 percent of all active Android smartphones, exactly the same as three months ago.

Android 5.0 and Android 5.1 is currently the only Android versions that grow. Older versions of Android have in the past month, all see their shares fall. With Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, the share went down from 5.3 to 4.5 percent. Android 2.4 Jelly Bean went from 17.5 to 15.2 percent and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean lost 2.6 percent fell to 12.1 percent.

The previous biggest new Android version, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, also falls hard and see its share decline from 5.1 to 3.7 percent.

It is now almost five years old Android 2.3 Gingerbread turned on September 7 still at 4.1 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 five year old Android 2.2 Froyo Android version running at 7 September, up 0.2 percent of all active Android devices. That share has fallen by 0.1 percent in June. This Android version is expected to come within a few months from the list. Are running 2 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 seven days which Android smarpthones visit the Google Play Store and on what version of the Android platform running these devices. This information is particularly important for application developers. App developers can decide, based on the statistics which Android versions they support and to examine any ‘potential’ left them when they no longer support previous versions of Android.