Record: Android is present in 19 thousand devices – Virtual Poland

Android is now a very popular system. We find it both in the top smartphones, tablets, and simple devices, not necessarily closely related to telecommunications.

 
 The IDC report shows that Android is by far the most popular mobile operating system in smartphones, although themselves not only smartphones green robot stands. The market is present in 18796 different devices, which in comparison with the previous year, an increase by as much as 60 percent. Last year it was 11,868 units, but compared with 2012 growth is huge – the market was the only 3997 devices with Android.
 
 

 The leader here is Samsung, which should be as much as 43 percent. market. In addition, up to 12 of the 13 most popular devices came from the hand of the Korean manufacturer. Despite a decline of 4.5 percent. compared to last year, Samsung’s advantage over the rest of the players in the market is still huge.
 
 

 A large number of devices is a great challenge for the developers who have before them almost 19 thousand. different devices for which you need to create applications, and in addition they must be properly optimized simultaneously. An additional problem is the very large fragmentation when it comes to operating system versions. With the latest Android 4.4 KitKat views is currently used by 20.9 percent. Device, 26.5 percent. devices based on the version 4.1, 19.8 percent. at 4.2 and 7.9 percent. to 4.3. Ice Cream Sandwitch (4.0.3 – 4.0.4) is installed on 10.6 percent. equipment, Gingerbread (2.3.3 – 2.3.7) on 13.6 per cent., and Froyo (2.2) to 0.7 percent. For comparison, under the control of seven runs iOS 91 percent. devices running Apple, while 8 percent. is version 6 and only 1 percent. has an older edition of iOS.
 

 
 But the embarrassing variety of Android is not only different variants of the system. Added to this a large amount of functions of smartphones, which from year to year more and more. For example, the latest flagship model of Samsung Galaxy S5, enforce a system of support for 19 different sensors and modules. From the basics, such as camera, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, and fingerprint reader. As if that were not enough, Android has to be adapted to a variety of screens, differing diagonal and resolution, as well as overlays producers from TouchWiz on HTC Sense.
 

 
 The full report together with animated charts showing the diversity of Android is available on the opensignal.com
 
 

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