Android Ecosystem Infoporn Overload. Dashboards. Google Play Install Stats The Google Play Developer Console also provides detailed statistics about your users' devices. Those stats may help you prioritize the device profiles for which you optimize your app. This page provides information about the relative number of devices that share a certain characteristic, such as Android version or screen size. This information may help you prioritize efforts for supporting different devices by revealing which devices are active in the Android and Google Play ecosystem. This data reflects devices running the latest Google Play Store app, which is compatible with Android 2.2 and higher. Each snapshot of data represents all the devices that visited the Google Play Store in the prior 7 days. Platform Versions This section provides data about the relative number of devices running a given version of the Android platform. For information about how to target your application to devices based on platform version, read Supporting Different Platform Versions.
Here's How Bad Android's Fragmentation Problem Is [GRAPHIC] When Google first launched Android, the open-source operating system came with the promise that it could power almost any device. That's created a proverbial cornucopia of mobile devices that consumers have to choose from, but it's also led to the issue of fragmentation — there are so many devices running different versions of Android with different capabilities that can alter experience. Just how bad is the problem? The site Open Signal Maps studied fragmentation in detail, gathering data from 195 countries, and it put its findings in easy-to-discern graphics. The main takeaways: Yes, fragmentation is huge, with 3,997 devices, but it's also a blessing that has led to the platform becoming the No. 1 mobile OS in the world by far.
From the graphic above, it's clear Samsung is the king of the mountain among Android devices. The company's Android phones and tablets make up 40% of the devices Open Signal was able to discern through its methodology. Maps - Android Fragmentation Visualized. The many faces of a little green robot August, 2012 Fragmentation matters to the entire Android community: users, developers, OEMs, brands & networks. It's a blessing and a curse. The Blessing. Fragmentation allows users to take their pick from thousands of devices. You can choose from phones with 3D screens, projectors, CDMA, GSM, or even CDMA & GSM. You may not care that Tag Heuer has made an Android phone but at least one person does (and they use OpenSignalMaps). The Curse. The Study. Some of the Android devices we use to test OpenSignalMaps Model We've spotted 3997 distinct devices. One complication is that custom ROMs can overwrite the android.build.MODEL variable that we use for the device model.
Brand Android brands are almost as fragmented as device models, indicating just how much easier it has become to source electronics. Some highlights: 2 tablets have been spotted sporting the ill-fated FusionGarage brand, 7 with Polaroid's smart-camera. API Level Resolution Scale 2:7 Android ??? Android Development: In practice, how bad is Android fragmentation for developers that are targeting multiple devices.
The shocking toll of hardware and software fragmentation on Android development. Android fragmentation is a huge problem. The fact that there are hundreds of different hardware devices running over half a dozen different versions of Google’s OS makes it annoying for users, but makes it an especially devastating issue for developers trying to make a business out of the Android ecosystem. This was highlighted by the recent release of Temple Run on the Android platform. A previously (very) successful game on iOS, it was brought over to Android in order to take advantage of the huge number of devices that run the OS.
And it has already hit 1 million downloads in just 3 days, good, even for a free app. But very quickly, the developers of the app discovered the pitfalls of fragmentation: 99.9% of support emails are complaining their device isn’t supported. Natalia Luckyanova of Imangi tweeted out that most of their 1200 emails over the past 12 hours of release had been devoted to the fact that the app just didn’t work on one of the hundreds of devices owned by those users. Porting - Effort due to Android fragmentation.