Android in November: one in three devices runs KitKat

01 December, 2014

Google released the Android distribution report for the month of November. Android 4.4 KitKat continued its increase in share - the OS version now runs on one out of three devices out there (33.9% to be precise).

Android 4.4 KitKat’s distribution number is up from 30.2% for the month of October. The KitKat share increase comes at the expense of Android Jelly Bean. The latter saw its share drop below 50% (it was 50.9% last month).

Shares of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and Android 2.3 Gingerbread dipped 0.7% each from a month ago to 7.8% and 9.1% respectively. Version 2.2 Froyo on the other hand is still alive and kicking - it boots on 0.5% of all Android devices out there.

Android 5.0 Lollipop is yet to appear on the distribution charts. We will have to wait another month to find out how big an entry the latest build will make.

Source

Android State of Android

Reader comments

Umi
03 Dec 2014
w43

its amazing........

K
02 Dec 2014
gC7

I dont know about IOS8 because i dont like ios, but iam disappointed after updated my nexus 5 from 4.4.4 to 5.0 with performance.

AnonD-207267
02 Dec 2014
4e}

Yeah, same here about the updates. I ran 4.1.2 on my note1 for a couple reasons...1, Sammy never updated mine past that, 2, the custom roms always had a glitch or bug. 4.1.2 was flat out stable, gave me no issues, so why bother. My device now, &q...