The Results Of A New Survey Of Android Users Reveal The Most Popular Version Of The Operating System, The Most Popular Browser On It, And More.

The Uptodown app store analyzed the traffic statistics of its 132 million unique monthly users. It came up with some interesting results about the popularity of different versions of Android and more. The data from this app store shows that Google Chrome is currently the most popular Android browser, and 85.5% of the users of the mentioned operating system use it.

Samsung Internet is the second most popular Android browser, with a share of 3.7%, far from Chrome, and Opera is the third most popular browser, with 1.74%. According to Uptodown data, the UC browser and Firefox are in fourth and fifth place with a share of 0.7 and 0.65%, respectively.

Android 11 was recognized as the most used version of this operating system for the second year in a row and is installed on 20.89% of Android devices. Android 13 is the second most popular version of Google’s mobile operating system, with a share of 17.23%, followed by Android 12, with a share of 12.95%, Android 10, with a share of 12.34%, and Android 9, with a share of 8.14%.

Although the spread of the use of new versions of Android depends largely on the manufacturers of devices equipped with this operating system, Uptodown says that Android 13 has managed to quickly gain a significant user base in the short time since its public release.

The title of the most popular Android phone brand was assigned to Samsung (with a 31.51 percent share), which is not surprising because the South Korean technology giant has been one of the top smartphone manufacturers in the world for years.

Xiaomi is the second most popular brand of Android phones with a share of 18.73%, Huawei is the third with a share of 10.04%, and Oppo and Vivo are with a share of 5.92% and 5.41%, respectively. They are in the next positions.