Android version at the beginning of February 2014

According to statistics from Google, at the moment there are eight versions of Android, the active device which is enough to consider them relevant.

 These data search giant collects and publishes monthly on a special website . The information provided is designed to help application developers in selecting those functions that require immediate implementation , as they will be able to use a large number of owners of smartphones and tablets. Yesterday, Google introduced a new chart prevalence versions Android, date of the beginning of February.

According to the latest information , drop Android 2.2 Froyo has stopped for the moment it is set to 1.3% of all devices. Exactly the same result was this version of the last reporting period. Gingerbread same can be seen in 20% of all tablets and smartphones , which is 1.2 % less than at the beginning of the year. However , the fifth part of the ecosystem - is still very much for appearing more than three years ago, Android 2.3.

Android 3.2 Honeycomb for many months shows the result of 0.1 %.This is somewhat surprising, because the tablet PC with it are not sold for many months , and some of them had long been updated to Ice Cream Sandwich. Incidentally, it is in the past month " lost " by 0.8 % , and now it can be found at 16,1% Android- devices.

Dynamics of changes in the proportion of Android 4.1, has finally become more stable, the second consecutive month it falls , ranking at the moment 35.5% of the ecosystem ( -0.4 %). 

But Android 4.2, devices which are still actively sold increased by 0.9 % and now can boast that is installed on 16.3 % of active smartphones and tablets. At 1.1% , the share of Android 4.3 ( to 8.9 %). So that the whole family Jelly Bean now occupies 60.7 %.

Some growth there and relatively fresh Anaroid 4.4 KitKat, provided three months ago. Now this version of the mobile operating system from Google occupies 1.8 % of the total number of active devices. How many developers write applications, they practically do not feel the difference in the writing program at Jelly Bean and KitKat, to implement specific "chips" last need to add quite a bit of code. That is, they believe it is an actual line described above , which occupies 62.5% of total ecosystem. And some are making here and ICS, which increases its influence to 78.6 %. And this number is close to 80 % of mobile devices from Apple, which are equipped with iOS 7 different options. It seems well thought-out strategy of gradual addition of Google features almost got rid of the real Android fragmentation on the versions .