The Android adoption curve of Ice cream sandwich (Version 4.0 and higher) continues at a fast pace. After a slow start it has been consistently been rising.At this point according to Android developer.com Ice Cream sandwich or higher is now deployed on greater than 25% of all Android devices. My personal forecast based on absolutely no data is that by next year we will cross 50% penetration and the slope will start tapering off.
Why am I focused on it? Well Android 4.0 ( aka Ice cream sandwich)is the first version to support Apple's HLS format. Why this is important for advertising I elaborated on in an earlier blog Apple HLS for Apple devices and now Android 4.0
So I thought it was interesting to plot it month by month and see where we are headed.
Data collected during a 14-day period ending on October 1, 2012
Why am I focused on it? Well Android 4.0 ( aka Ice cream sandwich)is the first version to support Apple's HLS format. Why this is important for advertising I elaborated on in an earlier blog Apple HLS for Apple devices and now Android 4.0
So I thought it was interesting to plot it month by month and see where we are headed.
( BTW on a factual note I forgot to look up the number in September so the 21% is a guess but the 25% is from today's data and the curve seems about right
. Secondary note the 25.5% number includes a 1.8% of Jellybean adoption number).
I also find it useful to actually look at the full data so here it is in all its glory
| Version | Codename | API | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5 | Cupcake | 3 | 0.1% |
| 1.6 | Donut | 4 | 0.4% |
| 2.1 | Eclair | 7 | 3.4% |
| 2.2 | Froyo | 8 | 12.9% |
| 2.3 - 2.3.2 | Gingerbread | 9 | 0.3% |
| 2.3.3 - 2.3.7 | 10 | 55.5% | |
| 3.1 | Honeycomb | 12 | 0.4% |
| 3.2 | 13 | 1.5% | |
| 4.0.3 - 4.0.4 | Ice Cream Sandwich | 15 | 23.7% |
| 4.1 | Jelly Bean | 16 | 1.8% |
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