Google on Monday
updated its Google Play distribution data to show the latest market
shares for different versions of
Android. It finds that
Android 4.4
KitKat is now roughly on one-third of Android devices, and is fast
catching up to
Jelly Bean.
According to the new Google Play
distribution data, Android 4.4
KitKat is now installed on 30.2 percent Android devices that accessed
Google Play in the seven-day-period ending on November 3. This figure
was 24.5 percent
in September and 20.9 percent
in August.
While KitKat is gaining fast, it still has a long way
to go until it touches Jelly Bean, which after a continuous decline,
still managed 50.9 percent (53.8 percent in September) adoption share.
In the latest report, Android Ice Cream Sandwich accounted for 8.5
percent adoption share, while Gingerbread still had a 9.8 percent share,
after a decrease of 1.6 percent in September.
Google says since
the data is
gathered from the new Google Play app, which supports Android 2.2 Froyo
and above, devices running older versions were not included. Notably,
these devices running versions older than Android 2.2 accounted for
about 1 percent in August 2013.
Meanwhile, the adoption of Android
KitKat has continued to rise over the past several months, as even the
smaller players have contributed with more KitKat-based smartphones than
Jelly Bean in the meantime.
Of course, now that Google on Monday
has announced the
start
of the Android 5.0 Lollipop roll-out to users worldwide, it remains to
be seen if Android KitKat could go even further than what Jelly Bean had
achieved at one time, though it seems unlikely.
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