KitKat doubles its share of active installs in just a month
Google has released its monthly report on active Android devices and their software version, and as you’d expect things are moving towards the latest releases. Android 2.2 is present on just 1.1 percent of devices accessing Google Play, down from 1.2 percent last month, while Honeycomb is still at its lonely 0.1 percent.
Gingerbread is holding down a sizable 17.8 percent, but that’s down from 19 percent this time last month. Android 4.0, 4.1 and 4.3 all dropped slightly, but gains on Android 4.2 and 4.4 made modern versions (Ice Cream Sandwich and above) as a whole grow to over 80 percent for the first time.
Android 4.2 gained one percentage point to 18.1 percent of active devices. KitKat makes the jump over the 5 percent (5.3 percent to be exact) mark for the first time, a dramatic jump to over double the 2.5 percent we saw a month earlier.
As we usually point out with these numbers, the process of moving devices and users over to newer versions of Android is a slow one — but at least things are steadily heading in the right direction again.
Source: Android Developers