Android Team Releases The Latest Android Distribution Chart: Gingerbread Still On Most Devices, But Ice Cream Sandwich And Jelly Bean Is Slowly Creeping Up

October 2, 2012

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Android Team Releases The Latest Android Distribution Chart: Gingerbread Still On Most Devices, But Ice Cream Sandwich And Jelly Bean Is Slowly Creeping Up 3

October is officially here, so you know it's time for some distribution stats for Android lovers (and subsequent haters). Like any other distribution study, the Android team takes time and does measurements of devices that access the Play Store and verifies which version of the Android OS users are on when accessing the Play Store. As you can see per the lovely pie chart and grid, we see that Gingerbread 2.3.3 – 2.3.7 overwhelmingly runs the majority of Android devices, though you can see the tasty Ice Cream Sandwich OS slowly creeping up— taking a 23.7% market share. Looking beyond those two versions of Android is the sudden growth of Jelly Bean 4.1: it's now at a steady 1.8% representing all Android devices at this time. Considering will see imminent Jelly Bean updates on devices like this, and this… and this too— expect the trend grow even more.
All in all, it's a wonderful time for Android as we're really starting to see the newer versions appear on more and more devices. I'm definitely curious to see how much market share Gingerbread loses as we approach the end of the year. Hit the source for more details.

source: Android Developers

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