As we check back in on [Android's Platform Versions dashboard][3] for the first time since [January][4], we can finally see notable growth in the percentage of devices running some flavor of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, up for 0.6 percent then to 2.9 percent. That's likely fueled by the release of updates for the Samsung [Galaxy S II][5] and [HTC Sensation][6] family of devices, and is a sharp uptick from last month when it registered on 1.6 percent. Gingerbread (2.3) still reigns supreme, running 63.7 percent of the Android hardware that accessed the Play market in the last two weeks, but its growth seems to finally be slowing. [Last year at this time][7] that position was filled by Android 2.2, with 2.3 on just one percent of the hardware and Android 3.0 barely registering at all, a point which highlights the long cycle of upgrades. Call it fragmentation or flexibility, app developers can use these stats to plan their releases going forward, although it may be a little while still before the majority of the crowd can access any Ice Cream Sandwich-specific features.
[ICS reaches 2.9 percent of active Android devices, 63.7 percent still on Gingerbread][2] originally appeared on [Engadget][8] on Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:17:00 EDT. Please see our [terms for use of feeds][9].
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