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Distribution of Android operating systems used by Android phone owners in

February 2018, by platform versions

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19.2%
6.2% The statistic shows the distribution of Android
22.3%
28.1% platform versions used by Android smartphone
owners in February 2018. In this month, 19.2 perce
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
of Android mobile devices used Lollipop 5.1. The
Share of Android mobile devices
gures are based on the number of Android device
that have accessed the Google Play Store within a 7
Marshmallow (6.0) Nougat 7.0 Nougat 7.1 Lollipop 5.0 Lollipop 5.1 KitKat
(4.4) day period ending on February 5th, 2018.
Jelly Bean 4.1.x Jelly Bean 4.2.x Jelly Bean 4.3 Gingerbread Google Android versions - additional informatio
(2.3.3 - 2.3.7)
Ice Cream Sandwich Oreo 8.0 Oreo 8.1 Froyo (2.2) Honeycomb Lollipop Since the rst quarter of 2011, Google’s mobile
(4.0.3 - 4.0.4) (3.2)
operating system, Android, has steadily increased i
share of the global smartphone OS market. As of th
fourth quarter of 2016, Android leads the global
Data visualized by © Statista 2018  market with an 81.7 percent market share, while
Additional Information: Worldwide; February 5th, Source: Android Apple’s iOS is second. Android is also the most ofte
2018 used operating system for tablet computers
worldwide, with a 66 percent share of the global
market in 2016.

One of the reasons for the success of Google’s OS i

the constant improvement of its many versions, wi
every new one o ering more advanced features,
faster access to the internet or increasingly better
video and audio. The rst commercial version, nam
simply Android 1.0, was released in September 200
followed by the Android 1.1 update, released in
February 2009. In April of the same year, Google
launched the confectionery-themed collection, whe
every new version of its mobile operating system is
named after a dessert. The rst of these new versio
was called Cupcake and displayed many new featu
such as the ability to copy and paste text in web
browsers and the ability to upload videos to video-
sharing website YouTube. The following Android
versions released by Google in alphabetical order
were called Donut (September 2009), Éclair (Octobe
2009), Froyo (May 2010), Gingerbread (December
2010), Honeycomb (February 2011), Ice Cream
Sandwich (October 2011), Jelly Bean (June 2012),
KitKat (September 2013) and Lollipop (June 2014).

Another reason for the Android’s popularity is its

strong collaboration with mobile device
manufacturers, while its main global competitor,
Apple’s iOS, is limited to operating only on Apple
devices, such as the iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch. A
of 2016, an estimated 85 percent of new smartpho
were Android-operated devices.

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