General Android

Google has released the latest platform stats for Android, giving a break down on the share for the various versions of Android out in the wild in December.

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Google releases the latest monthly stats for Android, breaking down the platform share for the various versions of Android out in the wild.

What a shame it's over - it was another great droidcon London 2017, at the Business Design Centre in Islington.

Think of the new Pixel 2 phones as the latest Nexus models but with the difference that they are made by Google instead of a third-party partner.

Firebase announces Cloud Firestore, which is seeking to be a 'new document database for apps', particularly for realtime database developers.

Time once again for the latest monthly breakdown of Android platform share. They are the official figures from Google, for the month of October, and reveal which versions of Android are actually being used 'out in the wild'.

Meant to cover this one before - the NXP-based WaRP7 dev board, which supports Android, gets its own LCD module.

In the latest monthly breakdown of Android platform share from Google, version 8.0 is advancing. In July it registered 11.5% of active users, and in the last month it has reached 15.8%.

We can only note that the latest version of Android, codenamed "Nougat", inches forward in its takeup, accodsing to the latest Google platform stats for August 2017.