The 2012 Jelly Bean version of Android surpassed the 2010 Gingerbread version to become the most widely used incarnation of the mobile operating system. Google Fragmentation persists First, with ...

Android fragmentation is often talked about, but not always clearly understood. Here's how it really affects Google's mobile ecosystem.

While Google has moved to cure the much-maligned Android fragmentation problem, there are more Android devices than ever out there in the wild, according to data from OpenSignal.

Fragmentation issues in Android were a key concern for the Victorian Department of Health when it came to designing its Better Health Channel app; so much so that the department has opted to ...

As much as Google's Dan Morrill, open source and compatibility program manager in the Android team, might want to argue that "fragmentation" of the Android platform is "bogeyman, a red herring, a ...

Android fragmentation appears to be analogous to conventional desktop Linux fragmentation in some ways, but the Android platform is a very different kind of software ecosystem and consequently ...

Fragmentation of the Android platform is being blamed for a decline in developer enthusiasm for the mobile OS, but the real fragmentation challenge for app developers is a much broader issue than ...

Android fragmentation appears to be analogous to conventional desktop Linux fragmentation in some ways, but the Android platform is a very different kind of software ecosystem and consequently ...

There’s no way around it: Android is a mess of disparate OEMs and legacy versions of the same operating system. While we get an idea of what’s really going on with Android from Google’s ...

Someone asked about Android fragmentation–the fact that Android is getting upgrades so frequently that there are phones powered by multiple versions of the OS for sale all at once. The Android team ...

Platform fragmentation is a given for Android, but developers find an upside to this fact of mobile life.

Google's Dan Morrill, open source and compatibility program manager in the Android team, just penned a lengthy diatribe against the very concept of fragmentation on the official Android Developers ...