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Android stats: Jelly Bean inches closer to Gingerbread, moving past Ice Cream Sandwich

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Jelly Bean (left) vs Ice Cream Sandwich (right)

Jelly Bean (left) vs Ice Cream Sandwich (right)

Google has published new Android stats that show Jelly Bean’s growing share of the Android pie at the expense of previous versions.

Combined, Android 4.2.x Jelly Bean (2.3%) and Android 4.1.x Jelly Bean (26.1%) account for 28.4% share, or just enough to move past Ice Cream Sandwich in the charts which has a 27.5% share.

The numbers are based on “data collected during a 14-day period ending on May 1, 2013” and use Google’s new algorithm to count Android devices, which focuses on Google Play Store visits rather than data from Google’s servers:

Beginning in April, 2013, these charts are now built using data collected from each device when the user visits the Google Play Store. Previously, the data was collected when the device simply checked-in to Google servers. We believe the new data more accurately reflects those users who are most engaged in the Android and Google Play ecosystem.

Gingerbread is still the most used Android OS out there, accounting for 38.5% of the Android ecosystem, while older OS versions including Donut, Eclair, Froyo, and Honeycomb are still in the picture, but they account for less than 6% combined.

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Compared to the previous reporting period, Jelly Bean is up 3.4%, with Ice Cream Sandwich and Gingerbread also losing ground – 1.8% and 1.3% market share drops, respectively.

Obviously, the numbers shouldn’t be that surprising considering that more OEMs are releasing Jelly Bean-running devices, but also upgrading more of their existing smartphones and tablets to one of Google’s Jelly Bean versions.

Furthermore, new rumors combined with server log data seem to suggest that Google may be launching an Android 4.3 version at Google I/O later this month. Android 4.3 is expected to be part of the Jelly Bean family, a move that would give and OEMs plenty of time to upgrade existing devices to Jelly Bean before moving to a next major OS such as Android 5.0.

    

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Jelly Bean now on 13 percent of Android devices, 45 percent still on Gingerbread

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The beginning of another month marks yet another fancy pie chart on the Android Developers Dashboard consisting of the latest usage statistics. The Dashboard, which reports the percentage of users on each build of the OS based on Google Play Store traffic, indicates that a full 12 percent of Android owners are enjoying 4.1 Jelly Bean, while 29 percent are on Ice Cream Sandwich. This leaves a solid 45 percent of users still flaunting Gingerbread, and a mere 1.4 percent are taking advantage of the most recent build of Jelly Bean (Android 4.2) on a Nexus device. Diving a little deeper in the number crunching, it shows that 42.6 percent of all current Android users are sporting at least Ice Cream Sandwich or later. And to the 0.2 percent of you still clinging onto your Donut devices, we salute you.

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Via: Android Central

Source: Android Developers Dashboard

Engadget

1 in 10 of all Android devices are running Jelly Bean; Gingerbread still dominates

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Every two weeks, Google posts a chart on their Android Developer pages that shows what kind of devices have been accessing the Google Play Store. They’ve been doing this for a while now, and many analysts, such as Sameer Singh, have used the data to build charts showing adoption rates for various versions of Google’s mobile platform. This latest information shows something quite surprising. Android 4.1 and 4.2, both of which are known as Jelly Bean, is apparently installed on 9.0% and 1.2% of devices respectively. In other words, 1 out of every 10 Android devices that access Google’s services are running the latest version of the operating system. Considering that Jelly Bean landed just six months ago, this is quite an achievement.

Another significant milestone is the fact that Android 2.3 Gingerbread, which is soon going to turn 25 months old, is now on less than 50% of Android devices. We can’t tell you how long we’ve been waiting to see this happen. Yes, Gingerbread is still on a majority of Android phones, but the numbers are finally starting to shrink at a meaningful rate.

We know we’ve been sounding like a broken for a while now, but the message bears repeating: Google needs to start taking more control of Android and figure out how to push updates without operators interfering. That might anger some of you open source hippies who think everything should be free and unicorn-like, but you’ve got to understand that Google is a corporation who cares about one thing and one thing only: profit.

While we’re on the subject of Android, when are we going to see the next version of that platform? Google I/O is taking place in May this year, but our gut says we’re going to have to wait until the end of the summer to get all the details about Key Lime Pie.

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Engineer builds gingerbread house using CAD and lasers, aging droids approve

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Engineer builds gingerbread house using CAD and lasers, aging droids approve

It’s not that often we see the worlds of baking and technology mix, but when Johan von Konow went about making a traditional gingerbread house for the holidays, he added a laser to the recipe. The engineer and tinkerer first went about designing an accurate, miniature 3D representation of his summer house in a CAD program, with the help of his wife. He then printed outlines of the necessary building blocks onto sheets of baked gingerbread, and used a 50-watt laser engraver to cut them out and score icing guides for the final touches later on. Burnt edges rendered the confectionary inedible, but as its final destination was no longer stomachs, raw lasagna sheets were added for structural support, and hot glue used to bind it all together. If you’ve got all the kit and are feeling inspired by the picture above, the design layout and project walkthrough are available at the source link below. Hansel and Gretel needn’t be worried this time around — the tech used creating this particular gingerbread house has attracted a different kind of aged tenant.

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Inhabitat’s Week In Green: the Sunportal, six gingerbread wonders of the world and a DeLorean taxi cab

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Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

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At Inhabitat, we’ve always got an ear to the ground listening for the latest innovations in the world of green technology, but the world’s best designs are often found in Mother Nature. From bullet trains to Velcro, this week we looked at the various ways designers have found design inspiration in nature to solve human problems. We also looked at some of the ways scientists and entrepreneurs are finding new ways to harness the power of nature. One such example is the Sunportal, a new technology that uses pipes to deliver daylight anywhere in a building. German entrepreneur Gregor Schapers set up a solar oven system in El Sauz, Mexico that is being used to produce tortillas. And after a year sailing the seas, a wave-powered robot completed its journey across the Pacific Ocean this week, setting a new world record in the process.

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Two years later, Android 2.3 Gingerbread is still on over half of Android devices

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Google released Android 2.3 Gingerbread on December 6, 2010. Put another way, it’s a version of Android that’s going to turn two years old in just two days. According to the latest figures in the Android Developer Dashboard, 50.8% of Android devices that have accessed the Google Play Store in the last two weeks are running this now ancient version of Google’s mobile operating system. We hate to say it, but it’s an extremely depressing figure. Are these Gingerbread carrying consumers nearing the end of their two year contract and are planning an upgrade? We can only hope so.

And what about the newer versions of Android? Jelly Bean, defined as Android 4.1 and 4.2, is on 6.7% of devices. That’s not bad for an OS that’s going to turn half a year old at the end of the month. As for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, that’s on 27.5% of Android devices. Many of those ICS devices will get upgrades to JB in early 2013, which is a good thing.

One can argue that people don’t really care about what version of Android is on their smartphone. That most people who are using Android today were feature phone users not that long ago. It’s a perfectly valid point, one that many people fail to consider because … let’s face it, we’re Android diehards who change our ROMs about as often as we change our socks. Still, we can’t help but think that Google needs to do something drastic in order to get everyone on the same page. It’s hurting the ecosystem if developers who want to take full advantage of the newest features in Android need to resort to making an app that runs well on a two year old smartphone.

Think about it for a second. Two years ago, single core devices reigned supreme, 720p displays were a pipe dream, and 4G LTE wasn’t even a buzzword yet.

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