{"id":258,"date":"2019-01-22T10:06:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T10:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonbuspal.co.uk\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2019-01-22T10:06:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T10:06:19","slug":"android-os-version-distribution-in-a-real-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/android-os-version-distribution-in-a-real-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Android OS version distribution in a real app"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was reading a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Android\/comments\/aiaslm\/updates_may_be_getting_faster_but_the_vast\/\">post on Reddit<\/a> which had some interesting statistics about Android OS versions and the speed (or tardiness really) of updating to the latest OS versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course the post is focused on individual phones, so it becomes difficult to get a sense of how many people are using the latest version of Android.  So I decided, as I do, to check my own app for how version distributions have changed over the last four months.  Here is a side by side comparison of the charts (the sample sizes are around 2500 users in both sets):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/sidebyside-1024x318.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/sidebyside-1024x318.png 1024w, https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/sidebyside-300x93.png 300w, https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/sidebyside-768x238.png 768w, https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/sidebyside.png 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course &#8211; this doesn&#8217;t tell the full story either.  It isn&#8217;t clear whether the shifts are due to software upgrades on the same phones, or whether users have just got new phones &#8211; or whether they are completely different users, but it paints a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something else to keep in mind when looking at this, is that my app is geographically biased towards London.  So it isn&#8217;t representative of Android OS distribution across the world, or even Europe, it is very centred on London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the same data represented as a bar chart &#8211; just for a different perspective:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"649\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/barchart-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/barchart-1.png 649w, https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/barchart-1-300x186.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a post on Reddit which had some interesting statistics about Android OS versions and the speed (or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4],"tags":[6,37,38],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-london-bus-pal","tag-android-development","tag-app-management","tag-interesting-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buspal.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}