The OpenSignal company, which develops an app for the phone signal in a city, announced the results of a study on the fragmentation of Android, an issue that has been controversial for years, because it represents both strengths and weaknesses for the operating system developed by Google. After analyzing 682,000 devices OpenSignal found that this year alone, 18,796 were launched various devices compatible with Android. That compares with 11,868 in 2013.
The issue of Android fragmentation and the number of devices supported by the operating system is important because there are tablets and phones of all colors and flavors on the market.
As OpenSignal says, fragmentation is both a strength and a weakness for Android. It is thanks to strength because the operating system can be a huge number of devices, it has emerged as the most used worldwide platform. Moreover, it is also a weakness, because it complicates the task of the developers, they have to program their applications to different processors, operating system versions and screen sizes.
After analyzing 682,000 devices OpenSignal found that this year alone, 18,796 were released Android devices compatible with . From the figure announced, 43 percent are Samsung phones or tablets. And of that number, only 20 percent run a version of Android KitKat.
In comparison, OpenSignal indicates that in 2013 recorded 11,868 different Android devices; Unlike nearly 7,000 devices in just one year .
OpenSignal also posted a picture in which the fragmentation of Android compared to iOS. Although both platforms have different versions of its operating system, 91 percent of iOS devices running iOS and 7, the latest version of the Apple platform. On the other hand, the highest percentage of Android users is maintained in the Jelly Bean (4.1) version that came out over two years ago.
OpenSignal data are based on devices that have downloaded your app, so that these may vary. However, show a clear picture of how the two most used mobile platforms worldwide differ.
One of the main problems that has so much fragmentation has to do with mobile operators, since they are the ones who decide when and which phones receive the latest Android updates. Almost always, only high-end receiving these updates and, in most cases, months and even years it takes.
But of course, the phone do this after studying whether the update will be supported by a telephone or the performance of this will be right after getting a new version of Android.
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