The Project Treble technology, created by Google to simplify and speed up the process of deploying the latest versions of Android to third-party manufacturers, has clearly not achieved its goal in its 5 years of existence. Moreover, judging by the new data from Android Studio, the degree of adoption of Android 12 after almost a year from the launch is almost deplorable. But let’s go from afar: almost 4 years ago, Google stopped publishing reports on the distribution of Android versions by market, and the only source of information was the Android Studio development environment, within which Google notifies software and application developers about the degree of implementation of certain versions of the “green robot”.

Chart based on data from Android Studio

The last such report was in May of this year and, as 9to5google journalists calculated, Google tried to mask the depressing position of Android 11 and 12 by summing up the performance of both versions and issuing them as Android 11. From these calculations, it follows that in May, Android 12 accounted for about 6.6%, and by August this figure reached 13.3%. Which, however, is still below the 4-year-old Android 9 (14.5%). Surprisingly, the already leading Android 11 showed an increase to the bar of 27% after 23.8% in May. Almost one in four smartphones in the world continues to work on Android 10 (22.3%), and one in 10 smartphones on Android 8 (8.1). Google itself is in no hurry to explain the reasons for the failed introduction of new versions of the OS.

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