As successor Android KitKat waits in the wings, 45% of Android devices are currently running Android Jelly bean. As per the results received today, Google has unveiled Android KitKat yesterday, Jelly Bean continues to be the most used edition of its mobile platform. Two versions of Jelly Bean —– Android 4.1.x and 4.2.x which are the newest builds on the market that are an explanation for 45.1 percent of all Android devices running the most recent Google Play Store app according to the reports from the latest update to Google’s Android Developer Dashboard on 5th September, that accounts to approximately 40.5 percent.
As the industry is more focussed on Jelly Bean, certain installs of Ice Cream Sandwich were obviously down from 22.5 percent in August to 21.7 percent. However, Honeycomb remains on a microscopic 0.1 percent and Froyo plunged to 2.4 percent from 2.5 percent a month earlier.
As Google terms those that run the Google Play app are powered by Gingerbread, it remains high at 30.7 percent, though that is toppled down from 33.1 percent last month. Android Jelly Bean finally overtakes the 2.5 year old build as the most installed version in July. Google is now phasing out any state of Donut (Android 1.6), that is claimed to account under 0.1% of active devices as it does not hold up the latest version (3.2) of the Google Play app, launched in August.
It was also announced by Google yesterday that it is has a record of past 1 billion device activations till date. Even if the method by which Google captures its Dashboard data does not give anyone any insight as to how many of those devices are running each version of Android, The number revealed by Google is really huge.
Release date for Android KitKat is still unstated. Although, Jelly Bean should have enough time to pass the 50 percent installation rate among active devices as the new candy bar-themed Android 4.4 build to take over it.