Devices running the latest Android 13 has more than doubled since January 2023 ; Here’s the full list of growth changes in different Android versions
Android 13 is the latest OS version which was launched last year in the month of August. After that, most smartphone companies started rolling out this latest update to their devices. Companies like Samsung, Google, OnePlus, Oppo, Realme, and Vivo have already rolled out this latest OS version to many of their devices in a phased manner and the remaining devices are also slowly receiving this new update.
Google offers quarterly updates to a webpage that informs developers of the percentages of devices running particular versions of the OS. This information is now only accessible within Android Studio. Android 13 was added in January to this chart and at that time this latest update was rolled out to 5% of devices globally since its launch.
But now as per the recent update in the chart made by Google, this percentage has increased massively as revealed by Mishaal Rahman on Twitter.
According to the latest Android version distribution statistics shared by Google (via @9to5Google), the % of (GMS Android) devices running Android 13 has more than doubled since January 2023 – from 5% to 12.1%.
Other changes:
– Android 12: 18.9% -> 16.5%
– Android 11: 24.4% ->…— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) April 14, 2023
According to the statistics shared by Google, devices running Android 13 have increased from 5% to 12.1% since January 2023. Android 13 seems to have rapid adoption in the industry. Other than this the user also shared a list of changes in previous Android versions.
List of changes in Android versions
- Android 12: 18.9%->16.5%
- Android 11: 24.4%->23.5
- Android 10: 19.5%->18.5%
- Android 9: 13.2%->12.3%
- Android 8: 9.5%->6.7%
- Android 7: 3.7%->3.3%
- Android 6: 2.8%->2.5%
- Android 5: 2.1%->1.9%
- Android 4.4: 0.7%->0.6%
