In addition, on a post about a month ago regarding Android platform versions, I mentioned  it would be nice to have a historical analysis of this data. I was glad to see that the latest platform versions stats came along with a nice stacked line graph providing a history of the relative number of active Android devices running different versions of the Android platform.

Each dataset in the timeline is based on the number of Android devices that accessed Android Market within a 14-day period ending on the date indicated on the x-axis.

It looks like that Android 2.x is taking over control. What version are you running?

Note: This data is based on the number of Android devices that have accessed Android Market within a 14-day period.

Today’s platform versions report shows Android 2.1 gaining significant ground on other platform versions, rising from 37.2% to 45.1%. Incredibly, now almost half Android devices out there are running Android 2.1. It is also notable that Android 1.5 dropped from 34.1% to 27.6%.

But I guess that the Android “fragmentation” problem will probably be there for quite some time yet. Especially now with the forthcoming Froyo release possibly coming this or the next week.

Update: There has been some interesting buzz on Android “fragmentation” since Reto Meier made a post about it. Read more here.

Android

Yes, Froyo is out. Android Gingerbread release currently planned for Q4, 2010. Froyo release includes major updates to these areas:

• Speed
• APIs and Services
• Browser
• Android Market

Three of the most striking changes there include over-the-air application installation, remote music streaming and the ability to turn your Android phone into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot.

Except for that, Android 2.2 aims towards improved overall performance that includes (and is not limited to):

• Performance of the browser that has been enhanced using the V8 engine, which enables faster loading of JavaScript-heavy pages.
• Dalvik VM performance boost: 2x-5x performance speedup for CPU-heavy code over Android 2.1 with Dalvik JIT.

Google TV

Google TV is the second big thing revealed on the second day at the Google I/O this year.

Google TV is a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet.

If you ask me, the closest thing to Google TV is Boxee box. Have you tried Boxee?

In case you are not familiar with Square, Square is an application that allows anyone to accept payment cards using their mobile device. This is done with a tiny card reader that plugs into the headphone jack on the device. Unfortunately, Square is unavailable outside U.S. for the time being.

Square intends to bring immediacy, transparency, and approachability to the financial world. We want to enable all people to accept payments instantly, with access to all the information they need, in a way that feels amazing and engaging.  When you think about it, paying someone is just another form of communication, an exchange of value that deserves to have the same design and product considerations that every social service prides itself on maintaining.

Square is, in my opinion, a very interesting and innovative technology and I am really looking forward to see how this turns out. Have you tried Square? What do you think?

You can follow @Square on Twitter.

The links there -which obviously don’t work for now- look like this

http://market.android.com/publish/Home#SHOW_FEEDBACK:PACKAGE_OVERVIEW:com.android.browser

Update: I just saw that the search box in this Feedback Experiment is an autocomplete/autosuggest text field. Awesome!

Keep in mind though that this release requires Android 2.0 or above. It has been tested only on Motorola Droid and the Nexus One. And there is high probability to cause your phone to crash or make it temporarily unresponsive. You can still test Fennec on you desktop if you want to.

Weave Sync

There is an experimental version of Weave that is compatible with this build.

If you want to test Weave on your android phone, head over to mozillalabs.com/weave and click on “Experimental Version”. Read more on this on Vladimir’s blog post.

We’ve created a temporary Google Group for feedback about this pre-alpha build.

On the contrary, the iPhone App Store is still far ahead, having 180.000 apps and counting. But it wouldn’t surprise me if we see a statistically significant decrease of the gap between iPhone apps and Android apps by the end of this year.

What do you think?

Google believes that developers should have their choice of tools and technologies to create applications.

Andy Rubin, Google VP of Engineering, Android

In a blog post today, Andy Rubin announced that Google is partnering with Adobe to bring the full web, great applications, and developer choice to the Android platform.