Android Distribution Numbers - December 2014
A new year, a new bunch of numbers, and as we saw last month there’s still no sign of Lollipop, despite being released for 2 months now. The data they’ve released has been collected during the 7 days leading up to January 5th, so how does it look?

Well, FroYo continues to decline, dropping 0.1% from last month, Gingerbread (the OS version that will never die) has dropped a pretty big 1.3%, while Ice Cream Sandwich dropped almost as much at 1.1%, down to 6.7%. Jelly Bean iterations saw decline across the 4.1 to 4.3 versions. KitKat has gained share, making up almost 40% of devices accessing Google Play but there’s still no sign of the latest entrant to hit the market.

For your convenience, here’s the comparison from last time.

Android Version November December
Android 2.2 (Froyo) 0.5% 0.4%
Android 2.3.3 – 2.3.7 (Gingerbread) 9.1% 7.8%
Android 4.0.3 – 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) 7.8% 6.7%
Android 4.1.x (JellyBean) 21.3% 19.2%
Android 4.2.x (JellyBean) 20.4% 20.3%
Android 4.3 (JellyBean) 7.0% 6.5%
Android 4.4 (KitKat) 33.9% 39.1%