Google: Android 10 adoption is faster than previous Android versions

Google reports that five months after the release of Android 10, one hundred million Android devices are running that version of the operating system. This would make the adoption 28 percent faster than with Android 9 Pie.

With those numbers, the adoption of Android 10 is faster than with previous Android versions, according to Google on its Android Developers blog. Google attributes the successful adoption to its projects to bring updates to Android devices faster. Android users stick with old versions longer than iOS, with security issues and access to new features.

Google tried to improve this with Project Treble, GSI and Project Mainline. With Project Treble, Google pulled the vendor partition for apps and services from manufacturers apart from the Android OS framework, so that the various manufacturers can offer Android upgrades faster. GSI, or generic system images, allows manufacturers to test new Android versions with raw Android Open Source Project builds. In addition, there is a developer preview program for OEMs.

Finally, since Android 10 Project Mainline, for updating Android components via Google Play, is similar to apps. Google mentions the updating of Google Play Protect and the spread of the Exposure Notification API for corona apps as examples.