Six months have passed since the launch of Android 13 and unfortunately, to no one’s surprise, its distribution is not being what could be expected. Google has updated the Android distribution data in Android Studio, the first time since the release of Android 13 and sure enough, almost half a year later, It is not yet installed on even one in ten mobiles.
According to these latest data, Android 13 is installed on 5.2% of Android smartphones. The most popular version is still Android 11followed by Android 10 and Android 12, which in both cases are close to 20% market share.
Android 11 is still the most popular version (again)
As we can see in the table below, Android 13 has advanced just 5% in its first five months of life. It is a fairly low figure and, perhaps, the least striking in the table. More interesting are the major downgrades of Android 10 and Android 11as well as the rise of Android 12.
|
ANDROID VERSION |
distribution may 2022 |
distribution August 2022 |
distribution January 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
JELLY BEAN (4.1 – 4.3) |
0.3% |
0.2% |
N/A |
|
KITKAT (4.4) |
1.0% |
0.9% |
0.7% |
|
LOLLIPOP (5.0 – 5.1) |
3.0% |
2.6% |
2.1% |
|
MARSHMALLOW (6.0) |
3.9% |
3.5% |
2.8% |
|
NOUGAT (7.0 – 7.1) |
5.0% |
4.5% |
3.7% |
|
OREO (8.0 – 8.1) |
11.6% |
10.9% |
9.5% |
|
FOOT (9.0) |
16.2% |
14.5% |
13.2% |
|
ANDROID 10 (10.0) |
23.9% |
22.3% |
19.5% |
|
ANDROID 11 (11.0) |
28.3% |
27% |
24.4% |
|
ANDROID 12 (12.0) |
6.2% |
13.5% |
18.9% |
|
Android 13 (13.0) |
N/A |
N/A |
5% |
It is to be expected that with this year’s releases and the promises of updates from the manufacturers, the share of Android 13 will increase. Surely we will have to wait five or six months to get updated data, and it will be then when we can better talk about the trajectory of the latest version of Android.
The positive part? That 67.8% of all Android phones have Android 10 or higher (a 5% improvement over the latest data), allowing these phones to receive system updates from Google Play and news from Google Services. It is also important that Jelly Bean has disappeared from the map, thus leaving KitKat as the oldest version in use.
