The simplicity of the Android brand name and mascot is at odds with the diverse, fragmented Android device market.
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Programmers and fanboys fixated on the thorny problem of Android fragmentation had reason to pay attention to Google’s statistics that this week showed the latest version of Android, Jelly Bean, surpassing the two-and-a-half-year-old Gingerbread as the most-used version of Android.
It’s a notable achievement for Google, which has been trying to push the Android world toward the modernized features and interfaces of Android 4.x for years. It introduced Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich, in late 2011, then refined it with 4.1 and 4.2, aka Jelly Bean, starting in May 2012.
The operating system variety is one facet of the fragmentation problem. With so many versions of Android in circulation, programmers must make sure their software works with each of them. Programming interfaces change with operating system updates.
With a modern version of Android finally on top, Google has c… [Read more]
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