Traditionally, Google has since been updated to the crackdown of Android with monthly details of the distribution of Android versions, but over a year ago it stopped updating the details. About a year after the latest data, we have new statistics for Android versions And, as always, they don't bring much good news.
Google has not yet published the version data on its website, but the data is finally being updated to Android Studio. Seven months after the launch, Android 10 is only 8.2% off Android devices.
Android Pie is the most widely used version
Google has not given us new stats on the distribution of Android versions since May 2019, when Oreo became the most popular version, at 28.3% devices, and at that time the most recent version, Android Pie, was installed on 10.4% of devices. after a year we have the same or almost the same, but converting Android Pie for Android 10.
Of course, Google has changed the way this data shows us. They are not available on its website, easily accessible to anyone, but are "hidden" in the Android Studio, as well as stats for increased distribution. It's a useful metric for program programmers, as they can know how many percent of their applications can work. This is because apps compatible with previous versions of Android are compatible with the latest versions, but not the opposite.
So we have to generate a calculator and do a simple calculation to extract the actual percentage of each version of Android, which already combines in passing percentages of Android conversions (like Oreo 8.0 and 8.1), to get a simpler understanding of what are the versions of Android in 2020?. This is as a result:
|
Android version |
Percentages |
|---|---|
|
Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) |
0.2% |
|
Jelly Bean (4.1 – 4.3) |
1.7% |
|
KitKat (4.4) |
4% |
|
Lollipop (5.0 – 5.1) |
9.2% |
|
Marshmallow (6.0) |
11.2% |
|
Nougat (7.0 – 7.1) |
12,9% |
|
Oreo (8.0 – 8.1) |
21.3% |
|
Foot (9.0) |
31.3% |
|
Android 10 (10.0) |
8.2% |
Since Google hasn't been given details for so long, it's hard for us to compare what is the Android 10 deployment compared to the previous version, though it doesn't look much different from what we've seen before: six months after launch, Android versions usually surround 10% of the distribution.
As of today, Android 10 is on fewer devices than Lollipop, a version from six years ago. For its part, Android Pie, coming up with gold in the distribution versions, is nearly 1 in 3 active devices after a year and a half of its launch. This is the top-10:
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Android Pie – 31.3%
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Android Oreo – 21.3%
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Android Nougat – 12.9%
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Android Marshmallow – 11.2%
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Android Lollipop – 9.2%
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Android 10 – 8.2%
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KitKat Android – 4%
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Android Jelly Bean – 1.7%
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Sandwich Cream Sandwich for Android – 0.2%
If you think that more and more devices are getting the latest version expected for Android 10, it is likely that the number will increase significantly in the coming weeks. The rest is still visible if Google will start updating statistics regularly or it will leave us in the dark for another six months.
