A lot has happened in the Android world: many smartphone manufacturers are expanding the rollout of Android 12, Google will follow up with Android 12L in just a few days and has published the first preview of Android 13. Enough reasons to open our statistics again and take a look at what the Android distribution looks like here on the blog. In fact, there have been erratic positive growth.
We show you here in the blog at irregular intervals the distribution of the Android versions among our readers. We started earlier this year and due to the accumulation of events around Android, it’s that time again. A very interesting growth is emerging, which will mainly benefit Android 12 and which lies in all the recent steps. The figures come from Google Analytics and may not always be classified by Google with absolute reliability. I assume Android 12L and Android 13 still count towards Android 12.
Android 12 distribution over the last seven months
- August 2021: 1.8 percent
- September 2021: 2.7 percent
- October 2021: 9.4 percent
- November 2021: 23.07 percent
- December 2021: 25.6 percent
- January 2022: 28.28 percent
- February 2022: 43.29 percent (until February 18)
As you can see, Android 12 has made a huge leap this month. This can of course be due to the further rollout of Android 12 by the major smartphone manufacturers but is not a sufficient explanation in this dimension. As I said before, I think the two new versions are the most likely explanation.
Android 12L has been released in a very stable beta and our readers are often experimental. Because Android 12L and Android 13 don’t show up anywhere in the stats, they should be included.
Let’s look at the distribution of each version over the past seven months. This is the best place to see at the expense of which versions the jump was made.
The numbers start just before the official launch of Android 12. Since then, the operating system has shown linear growth, especially in the first two and a half months, while there has been stagnation between November and January by Android standards. But in the current month (February) there is suddenly a big development.
Android 12 took a big chunk out of Android 11, and Android 10 also lost a few percentage points. The older versions are stable, as usual, and are going down very slowly. I expect Android 13 will also be included in the next few weeks and Android 12L will show up as Android 12.1 in the list.
Of course, with our comparatively small user base, there is also a certain range of fluctuation and no completely stable numbers as in the global market. Average between 600,000 and 700,000 readers per month with several million views. We’ll continue to monitor the stats and may look back at the numbers after the release of the first Android 13 beta, which some users are confident installing.