Five months after launch, Android 13 is installed on 5.2% of all devices

The data revealed by Google about the diffusion of the latest version of its Android operating system are interesting. Six months after launch, Android 13indeed, is running on 5.2% of devices using this OS Much higher share, of course, accompanies Android 12 (bundled together with Android 12L): This version is installed on 18.9% of devices, up from the 13.5% reported in the report by August.

Taking a look at previous versions, however, the use of Android Oreo has finally dropped below 10%while jelly Bean – previously at 0.3% – is hardly mentioned anymore. Finally, also down KitKat, which went from 0.9% to 0.7%. As for this data, in the past, when Google published them on its official website, the company stated that they were based on devices accessing the Google Play Store during a week. Although now the data is published in android studiothis criterion should not have been revised.

Therefore, according to these latest data, the spread of Android 13 seems to travel quite well and the credit for this is partly due to the speed with which various manufacturers have launched the update.

Among these, besides obviously Google, are to be mentioned Samsung, OnePlus, Sony and other well-known brands. In the meantime, there is already talk of the future Android 14. About that, a few months ago, Mishaal Rahman anticipated that for this new version smartphones will probably have to meet two requirements: support for the AV1 video standard and compatibility with the ARMv9 architecture (since the new OS could only support 64-bit apps).