Wednesday, April 2, 2014

TechNow: Android adoption report, March 2014

It’s April and here is the Android platform distribution update by Google. In March this year, we saw Android 4.4 KitKat cross the 5%, while everything before Jelly Bean decline.
Some outdated and useless Froyo devices still hold tightly to their 1% mark (we hope that disappears this year), Gingerbread now holds under 20% and Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean (4.1 ) declined.

Jelly Bean (4.2) Jelly Bean rose and is now ahead of Ice Cream Sandwich. Jelly Bean 4.3 stayed in place since January, because many companies are leapfrogging 4.3 and going straight to 4.4 (LG and Motorola).

With KitKat being adopted more and Jelly Bean mostly staying in place (and hopefully declining), OpenGL ES 2.0 support declined, and OpenGL ES 3.0 increased. This is important for game developers who are considering using more advanced graphics features as they can now reach 10.5% of all Androids devices out there!




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