While Android smartphone fans are eagerly awaiting more models with the latest Android 12 OS, it turns out that not all users have yet even switched to the previous version. Android 11 is not yet the most popular operating system developed by Google.
Google stopped publishing monthly data on the prevalence of its OS back at the end of 2018. Nevertheless, the latest statistics can be found out by app developers using the Android Studio tool, for which such information is vital.
Since Android 12 appeared only a couple of weeks ago and is not used on most current smartphones, there are no statistics on this OS yet. Nevertheless, the rest of the data is known. Thus, Android 11 (R), which was released on September 8, 2020, accounts for 24.2% of users – it takes only second place in the rating.
The first belongs to Android 10 (Q), which surpassed its “successor” with a small lag – it runs 26.5% of smartphones on the OS developed by Google. It is noteworthy that Android 10 was released back in 2019.
The full Android OS ranking:
- Android 10 Q – 26.5 %
- Android 11 R – 24.2 %
- Android 9 Pie -18.2 %
- Android 8 Oreo – 13.7%
- Android 7/7.1 – 6.3%
- Android 6 Marshmallow – 5.1 %
- Android 5 Lollipop – 3.9 %
- Android 4.4 KitKat – 1.4%
- Android 4 Jelly Bean – 0.6%.
Thus, just under half of users own smartphones with Android 9 Pie, Android 8 Oreo or even earlier versions. It is possible that the percentage would have been even higher if Google had not stopped supporting very old versions of the operating system.
Developers using Android Studio can see statistics and more detailed information about each version of the operating system in order to create products that are optimally suited to the target audience of their applications.