Following up on yesterday’s post – here’s a few charts, generated from our log data, that show some of what developing for Android looks like.

Google releases stats about which Android versions they’re seeing, which our stats generally match. (Probably unsurprising, as nearly all of our app installs comes through the Google Play Store.) This chart isn’t as scary as it looks; though we deal with five different operating systems, they’re decently similar.

All the Android 4+s might be very similar, but there’s still variation across countries. Our US and UK users have devices running the newer OSs, while Turkish handset manufacturers cling to Android 4.03/4.04. We’ve seen a few devices running the latest Android version (4.4/Kitkat), and nearly all have been in China.

Adding Android 2/Gingerbread to these charts would likely increase the variation across countries, but Hoot, our app, doesn’t run on Gingerbread phones, so we don’t have that data.

We’ve seen over 1600 device models since the app’s been live, but over three-quarters were manufactured by Samsung. Micromax devices, 3% of what we’ve seen, are (nearly) only used in India. If Hoot had better distribution in China, we’d probably see more Xiaomei and Huawei phones. The Nexus line – which Google so often uses to demonstrate Android’s prowess, and which most of our beta-testing friends carried, only covers 5% of our users, and it’s probably less common overall. (If you work in technology and adopt Android apps early, you probably have a nice phone. If you installed the app because you know Matt or I, you definitely have a nice phone.)

We’re also tracking users’ connection speeds, since Hoot’s a video app, and upload and download time impacts the experience. This graph is a bit trickier to interpret though; are connection speeds in the US, on average, twice as fast as in the UK? Or are our American Hoot users more likely to be on wifi connections? We’re not sure – though we’re curious for any thoughts you have!