Platform Versions – Fragmentation

Today we will do a short review of the current distribution of android versions, and what is the main problem currently of the android platform, Android fragmentation:

As we can see, the number of devices with Cupcake and Donut (1.5 and 1.6) has drop down to a 7.8% between both of them. The first devices of Gingerbread (2.3 and 2.3.3) begin to show, including the ONE thanks to CyanogenMod (specially to Ricardo) and Super@tmel, and how the percentage of devices with Eclair (2.1) has been also reduced, while the percentage of Froyo (2.2) has increase up to beeing the winner with a 61.3%.

This data is important for developing applications, because it gives us a fair idea of the percentage of devices that will be able to use our applications depending of the minimum SDK which we target our applications.

Source: http://developer.android.com/intl/es/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html