The serious problem of Android fragmentation, continues to show its presence in the most recent report of distributions mobile operating system Google.
The site developers Android, Google updated figures market share of its seven versions of Android available until April 4. They show that KitKat (Android 4.4) still leads with 33.4 percent of the total market share of Android.
Second is Lollipop (Android 5.0 and 5.1) with 35.8 percent, while Marshmallow (Android 6.0), released last October, has just 4.6 percent of the share.
The rest of the distributions, where yet been Jelly Bean, Ice Cream Sandwich, Gingerbread and Froyo together occupy 26.2 share of Android. Of all these, which has more presence is Jelly Bean (Android 4.1 to 4.3) with 21 percent.
Google get these percentages in accounting for all devices that connect to the Play Store and Google services. These figures reflect the visits to the Play Store until April 4.
Google still can not find ways to make their latest versions reach users more quickly. Although Google launches new versions of Android, operators and handset manufacturers have to modify the operating system so it can run on every Android phone on the market and, in addition, each operator modifies the Android interface to your preference , which makes the arrival of recent versions to phones take longer.
Android Marshmallow, for example, is barely 4.6 percent of devices, but was released in October, just a month after Apple released iOS 9. In contrast, iOS 9 is already installed on the 79 percent of mobile devices that connect to the App Store.
Without being sufficient fragmentation problem for Google and its users, the search giant is already preparing Android N for launch this year.
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