It is unknown how popular 'Android 9 Pie' is because Google does not update Android statistics


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Uncalno Tekno

The statistics of the percentage of devices with a specific version of Android installed and the screen size published in the Android developer page have not been updated for more than half a year in October 2018, 2018 Information on Android 9 Pie , which was officially released in August, can not be obtained.

ProBeat: Google hasn't updated Android distribution data in 6 months | VentureBeat
https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/26/probeat-google-hasnt-updated-android-distribution-data-in-6-months/



The news site VentureBeat has been in contact with Google several times since the update stopped, and it was said that in January 2019 there was a response that 'under maintenance, I will reply when it is complete', Three months have passed since then and no comment has been obtained.

Dashboard | Android Developers

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html



In the dashboard, you can find out what percentage of OS versions are installed on your Android device. As of April 30, 2019, the data displayed is 'Data collected during the seven days until October 26, 2018'. Versions less than 0.1% are hidden and data from version 2.3.3-2.3.7 (Gingerbread) to 8.0 · 8.1 (Oreo) is displayed.



The percentages are high at 7.0 and 7.1 (Nougat), 8.0 and 8.1 (Oreo) and 6.0 (Marshmallow).



According to VentureBeat, it takes more than a year for the new OS of Android to become the 'most used OS', and both Nougat and Oreo have five months from the release to gaining a 1% market share, 10 It took another five months before the percentage was exceeded. Also, as the version gets newer, the share acquisition speed tends to be slower.

Based on this information, as of April 2019, six months after release, Android 9 Pie's share is expected to be around 1%.

Because Google's developer event ' Google I / O 2019 ' will be held from May 7 to 9, 2019 , VentureBeat has commented that 'Google can't stop forever.' Well, will information be provided?

in Software, Posted by logc_nt