Android 4.x FTW: Jelly Bean finally the king of the Android ecosystem

Posted: 08 Jul 2013, 22:05, by Michael H.

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Android 4.x FTW: Jelly Bean finally the king of the Android ecosystem

The new monthly Android platform distribution numbers have come out, and it's another big win for our theory that developers might want to drop Android 2.x support all together, because it was another big win for the Android 4.x set, specifically Android 4.1/4.2 Jelly Bean. As expected, Jelly Bean has surpassed Gingerbread (Android 2.3.x) to become the king of the Android ecosystem.

As of last month, Jelly Bean had 33% of the ecosystem compared to Gingerbread's 36.5%, but the roles have reversed with the new July numbers. Jelly Bean has gained almost another 5% of the market and leads all versions of Android at 37.9%, while Gingerbread has dropped to 34.1%. Ice Cream Sandwich is still number 3 on the list, but it has lost share and is down to 23.3%.

The numbers are designed to show developers what users are accessing the Play Store, which are the users that developers would want to target with apps. Android 2.x continues to lose ground to Android 4.x, and that trend won't be reversing any time soon, so we have to ask again: should developers abandon Android 2.x and build for 4.x?

source: Android Developers

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posted on 08 Jul 2013, 22:11 10

1. rickywinataa (Posts: 262; Member since: 05 Apr 2012)

kay, NOW GIVE ME KEY LIME PIE !

posted on 08 Jul 2013, 22:18 2

2. kozza3 (Posts: 715; Member since: 17 Oct 2012)

calm down! OMG ok I CANT WAIT!!!

posted on 08 Jul 2013, 22:29 1

3. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)

Or 4.3.1
Android Ftw®

posted on 08 Jul 2013, 22:38 4

5. abcdefgh (banned) (Posts: 471; Member since: 29 Mar 2013)

4.3 has very slight improvements.so as a customer i demand KLP.
KLP FTW

posted on 08 Jul 2013, 22:43 12

6. FlushGordon (unregistered)

Shhh.... HTC owners might not like what you have said.

posted on 09 Jul 2013, 09:40

15. apathy88 (Posts: 6; Member since: 23 Nov 2012)

You do know that the people who have bought HTC phones get some pretty solid dev support. So whether or not HTC releases OS updates quickly or not is beside the point.

posted on 08 Jul 2013, 22:36 9

4. abcdefgh (banned) (Posts: 471; Member since: 29 Mar 2013)

i bet sammy is atleast 75% of it

posted on 08 Jul 2013, 23:25 10

7. neutralguy (Posts: 1152; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)

If htc and lg updated most of their flagship devices from two years ago, JB would be around 40+% I guess.

posted on 08 Jul 2013, 23:58 1

8. TheLolGuy (Posts: 483; Member since: 05 Mar 2013)

Have fun when KLP is designed to work on low-end phones and you guys with superphones get nothing.

posted on 09 Jul 2013, 01:17 3

11. abdane (Posts: 494; Member since: 07 Oct 2011)

dafuq you talking about ? o.O

posted on 09 Jul 2013, 07:41

12. roldefol (Posts: 4364; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)

Yeah, backwards compatibility is such a waste. How else is Google going to force us all to buy new phones and keep its best buddy Samsung raking in profits?

posted on 09 Jul 2013, 08:25

13. ECPirate37 (Posts: 220; Member since: 14 Jul 2011)

I believe he is talking about the rumor that Key Lime Pie will be a minimal operating system that will work on even the oldest of Android models. That way all Android models could run it.

Then, extra features would be downloadable apps. (i.e. all phones could run KLP, but only the phones capable of running Google Now would be able to download and run that app). As of right now 'tis just a rumor, but it seems plausible.

posted on 09 Jul 2013, 00:21

9. hms2407 (Posts: 94; Member since: 25 Apr 2013)

Take note HTC and Motorola,stop cancelling updates for your devices and give the users what they want

posted on 09 Jul 2013, 00:27 1

10. Adithya7184 (Posts: 319; Member since: 05 Mar 2011)

Android FTW....come on Google, launch that damn KLP

posted on 09 Jul 2013, 08:55

14. Epicness1o1 (Posts: 280; Member since: 30 May 2013)

Jelly bean is riseing beacuse phone companys doesnt care about there costumers so they buy new phones that have new android softwares