File talk:Android Version History By Term.png

Sources?

Can you link to the data source for this chart? I'm having trouble verifying the data based on other published sources — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.102.4.178 (talk) 14:12, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Now the canonical source is available again:

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/#version-chart

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/05/07/android-distribution-numbers-finally-back-for-may-2019-after-6-months/

Tuxayo (talk) 12:25, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

No data

Android historical version distribution - vector

@!! !0I0000100110010101101110! !!: Why not just draw a straight line between Q3 2018 and Q1 2019? We linearly interpolate between all other data points so it seems strange to me that we interpolate constant use between Q3 2018 and Q4 2018. The previous plot linearly interpolated the missing data points as well. Sizeofint (talk) 23:21, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestion. I see what you mean. I will see if I can find a way to do that in the graphing software for the next update. I am planning on getting this updated with 2019 Q2 and Q3 sometime in October. !! !0I0000100110010101101110! !! (talk) 04:18, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

I was able to make the change for the next update. Definitely looks better. !! !0I0000100110010101101110! !! (talk) 04:40, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Great! Thanks! Sizeofint (talk) 00:02, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

Future Data Source Change

Someone recently removed this from this from the English page because google still has not updated the source data since May 2019. Here are a couple alternative data sources I located, and the earliest available time.

Statcounter, June 2017

NetMarketShare, May 2016

I am thinking on using a time weighted approach to gradually migrating over to the new data source without skewing suddenly the data. For example, if NetMarketShare is used as the new data source:

Time Period	Weight (Google Data)	Weight (NetMarketShare Data)
Q2 2016	100%	0%
Q2 2017	69%	31%
Q2 2018	38%	62%
Q2 2019	8%	92%
Q3 2019	0%	100%

Any comments or concerns on this option? — Preceding unsigned comment added by !! !0I0000100110010101101110! !! (talk • contribs) 22:32, 25 January 2020 (UTC) !! !0I0000100110010101101110! !! (talk) 22:33, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

The page that used to contain the Google data now recommends getting the data from the Android Studio Create New Project wizard. This in turn downloads data from the URL https://dl.google.com/android/studio/metadata/distributions.json, which is currently up to date, but we'll see if it stays that way. Smyth (talk) 23:28, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Cool -- that looks like a good solution! FTR here's the data that that URL provides as of right now, 2020-06-22:

$ curl -s https://dl.google.com/android/studio/metadata/distributions.json \
  | perl -MJSON -0ne '
      my $d = decode_json $_;
      foreach my $i (@$d) {
        printf "%5.1f%% %3d %4s %s\n",
            100 * $i->{distributionPercentage}, $i->{apiLevel}, $i->{version}, $i->{name};
      }
    '
  0.2%  15  4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
  0.6%  16  4.1 Jelly Bean
  0.8%  17  4.2 Jelly Bean
  0.3%  18  4.3 Jelly Bean
  4.0%  19  4.4 KitKat
  1.8%  21  5.0 Lollipop
  7.4%  22  5.1 Lollipop
 11.2%  23  6.0 Marshmallow
  7.5%  24  7.0 Nougat
  5.4%  25  7.1 Nougat
  7.3%  26  8.0 Oreo
 14.0%  27  8.1 Oreo
 31.3%  28  9.0 Pie
  8.2%  29 10.0 Android 10

!! !0I0000100110010101101110! !!, if you would like to update the image using that new Google source, I think that would be lovely. I've included the current values above so that if it's a while before you have a chance to do so (or some other user does so), you'll be able to use the data from now as well as the data from whatever time in the future you're looking at it. --Gnp (talk) 03:11, 23 June 2020 (UTC)