Android market encounter bottleneck prospects worrying

On August 1st, according to foreign media reports, the use of Android products has increased nearly threefold now, more than a year ago. Of these, eight versions are in use. According to one report, since the beginning of the Android parallel version, the situation of “blessings and misfortunes” has not changed in the short term, and the Android market has now been fragmented.

According to reports from OpenSignal, the use of Android products has increased nearly threefold over a year ago. Of these, eight versions are in use. OpenSignal's set of screens illustrates the diversity of the amazing Android market. Although Samsung is clearly dominant, only this company has hundreds of mobile phones and tablets in the market. In addition to some big brands such as Sony, LG, and Motorola, there are numerous generic and carrier brand mobile phones, each with its own little-known device.

OpenSignal obtains data from the user's wifi and signal search software and has a clear understanding of the parallel version. Although Android's openness allows any company to develop its own mobile phones and tablets, providing users with more choices, software developers have also experienced headaches. Anyone who develops an Android application must correspond to a variety of screen sizes, processors, and various Android software, so the Android market will appear unprecedented fragmentation.

The latest analysis suggests that the Android version is now not the same as in the past. In this sense, the most outdated Android version is not so popular. 40% of devices can run Android 2.3 or earlier, but 85% of devices running Android 2.3 or earlier will be a huge improvement compared to a year ago.

Recently, 61.2% of the devices were able to run Android 4.0 or higher, and 37.9% were able to run Android 4.1 or higher. Therefore, the balance of the parallel version is biased towards the updated Android version, which promotes improvements in the modification and design.

It helps to slow down Google's Android development, not running 4.3 or even 4.2 phones without losing major product features. Google also tried to alleviate the pain of the parallel version to developers, which was to develop an extensible interface for different screen sizes, and colleagues developed new tools to test these screen sizes.

This does not mean that mobile phone manufacturers can quickly update their devices. Although Google has labored to provide a method to speed up this process, producers face two major roadblocks, namely the testing and certification of new software. With the emergence of more products on the market, the parallel version of the Android system has not changed its blessings.