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Fri, 22 Apr 2011
I have been looking over Android's API and have been writing an Android application with Eclipse.
Android use has started to take off in the past months. I have looked at various metrics, one I like is from the Internet's 8th most trafficked sites, Wikipedia. It shows the growth of Android use over the past six months:
The graph y-axis is the percentage of all browsers coming in - mobile, desktop and whatnot. X-axis is the time period of usage - the past six months. The OS versions are listed in the key, although "Mobile other" is a catch-all.
In October 2010, 0.47% of all hits to Wikipedia came from Android phones. In March 2011, 0.98% of all hits to Wikipedia came from Android phones. So that has more than doubled within the past six months.