[ajnin]

I've been tracking the data from Google's Android dashboards over time : https://www.bidouille.org/misc/androidcharts

From these observations, it seems that Android's fragmentation is getting worse, and that newer versions of Android have more and more trouble establishing themselves as the dominant version. In fact, JellyBean was the last version to reach more than 50%.

[izacus]

It is hard to understate how MISLEADING these dashboards are. They are so, so, so wrong. I've professionally worked on several apps/libraries which reached millions of Android users and not one of them (not one!) had a distribution that's even close to what those dashboards show.

Any kind of app that's not exclusively targeting emerging markets on 512MB phones will have significantly higher percentage of newer Androids. If you're targeting US, EU, China, Japan, Korea and S. America you'll probably have Androids before 6.x in marginal <10% total figures.

Any kind of app that's being released together with its iOS version will probably have double to triple percentage of new Android versions and pretty much non-existant usage stats on Androids before 5.0.

Those dashboards reflect pretty much no app published on Play store - not even apps like Facebook.

[pjmlp]

Which is the reason why Google has finally added an update clause to their services contract, as OEMs are starting to not pay attention to their new versions.

In Germany, on consumer stores at shopping malls you can still buy pre-paid devices with Lollipop.

[PunchTornado]

dashboards like that are a bit pointless without region filtering. what is your target? eu? usa? china?