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Google lastly updates Android distribution chart, huge adjustments within the works

You already know in addition to we do: It’s been over six months since Google has up to date its Android distribution dashboard — the month-to-month up to date chart that lets us know roughly what share of customers are operating completely different Android variations. For us, it’s essentially the most dependable strategy to let you know how shortly firms roll out new Android variations to their telephones. It’s additionally a great way to search out out simply how many individuals on the market are nonetheless operating Android Gingerbread.

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Beginning in the present day, Google is rolling out an replace to its Android distribution dashboard with new Android model market share numbers present to Might 2019.

Once we final checked in method again in October 2018, Android Oreo had solely been rolled out to 21.5 % of Android units, regardless of being formally out there to producers for over a yr. Now, Android Oreo’s numbers have shot up considerably to 28.three %.

Android Pie had solely been out there for a pair months again in October, and it wasn’t put in on sufficient telephones to warrant a spot on the pie chart. Now, Android 9 Pie is put in on roughly 10.Four % of all Android units. This time final yr, Oreo was solely put in on Four % of units, so it seems producers are rolling out Android updates faster. Google’s efforts with Undertaking Treble are prone to thank for that enhance.

Elsewhere, Android 7-7.1 Nougat has dropped barely from 28.2 % to 19.2 %, Android 6 Marshmallow has dropped from 21.three % to 16.9 %, and Android 5-5.1 Lollipop has dropped from 17.9 % to 14.5. Android 4.Four KitKat’s numbers dropped from 7.6 % to six.9 % and Jelly Bean dropped from three % in October to 2.2 %. Ice Cream Sandwich and Gingerbread are nonetheless holding on, each with with .three %.

What took so lengthy for these numbers to be up to date?

It’s been six months for the reason that final replace to the distribution numbers. What provides?

Initially, Google’s information feed was beneath upkeep, therefore the shortage of updates. However the firm needed to take that point to not solely repair the difficulty but additionally handle an even bigger, underlying drawback: Easy Android replace pie charts like this one don’t inform the entire story. Certain, main software program updates are an essential factor to trace — we monitor it religiously right here at Android Authority — however simplifying Android updates to a single point-release pie chart fully disregards different essential components of the Android replace course of comparable to Google Play Providers, month-to-month Android safety patches, and even the truth that builders can goal completely different APIs for varied Android variations. This stuff are essential, and we’re joyful to report that Google is taking this under consideration going ahead.

Main level releases are essential, however so are Play Providers and month-to-month safety patches.

A Google spokesperson instructed Android Authority that Google is engaged on constructing a extra strong strategy to notify customers on Android distribution numbers. Someday within the coming months, these Android model pie charts received’t be so easy. They may nonetheless exist, however there shall be extra context explaining what Android updates actually imply, why Play Providers is such an essential issue, which producers have been updating their telephones on time, and extra.

Going ahead, updates to those Android distribution numbers shall be much less frequent, so we shouldn’t anticipate new numbers to report in June 2019. When new updates are issued to the dashboard, they’ll be extra significant and, frankly, extra fascinating to speak about.

Why do Android updates take so lengthy?

Since we don’t have Android distribution numbers from November 2018 – April 2019, it’s arduous to see if OEMs have been taking longer or shorter quantities of time to difficulty main updates to their telephones. From the information we’ve collected time beyond regulation, although, we are able to see that, general, Android updates are rolling out faster than they’ve lately.

First, take Google’s metric from Might 2019: Android Pie is put in on 10.Four % of Android units, which is a 2.5-percent enhance from Android Oreo’s Four % market share at the moment final yr.

Undertaking Treble might be the most important contributor to the rise. On common, we discovered that Android Pie updates rolled out to OEM Android units simply 118 days after Google rolled Pie out to its Pixel units. By comparability, it took Android Oreo a mean of 170 days to roll out, whereas the pre-Undertaking Treble Android Nougat took a mean of 192 days to roll out.

With that mentioned, there are nonetheless loads of telephones operating older variations of Android. That’s as a result of individuals are holding onto their telephones for longer durations of time, so the variety of energetic units operating older Android variations will nonetheless keep fairly excessive (the continuous enhance of flagship cellphone costs might also contribute to this). There are additionally nonetheless various low-cost units that launch with out the newest model of Android and will by no means see a significant software program replace.

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The opposite key issue right here is that every new Android model arrives with extra Android units in circulation, that means its speedy impression is reducing. When all the main OEMs received their flagships up and operating with Ice Cream Sandwich, it represented a major share of Android telephones as a result of there have been far fewer of them. There are greater than two billion month-to-month energetic Android units in use now, so there may be merely extra floor for the newest Android model to cowl.

The elevated price of launch for main Android variations could also be one of many largest causes for this have a tendency, as shorter OS model shelf lives equal decrease market penetration. Jelly Bean was out there for about 16 months earlier than KitKat arrived. KitKat caught round for barely over a yr adopted by Lollipop which simply scraped previous 11 months earlier than Marshmallow hit the scene. Then Marshmallow was solely out for ten and a half months earlier than Nougat confirmed up in mid-August.

Oreo was the one current software program model to buck the development, releasing nearly a yr to the day after Nougat, earlier than Pie arrived 12 months after that. In accordance with an AMA with the Android improvement workforce in July, Android variations will persist with an annual schedule going ahead, which might imply much less fragmentation going ahead. That’s additionally in keeping with Google’s purported Android Q replace timeline.

Like we said beforehand, being on the newest model of Android isn’t as essential because it as soon as was, although. With Play Providers, as an illustration, Google can push out essential updates to simply about each Android gadget with out the necessity to bake it into Android (thus requiring a complete software program replace). Plus, an excellent quantity of OEMs have been specializing in rolling out the newest Android safety patches to their units, which implies Android telephones aren’t as susceptible to assaults as they as soon as had been.

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