Android Lollipop is now installed on 23.5% of devices

Google has a long history of hiding Easter eggs throughout its product cycle – even the much-derided Nexus Q has a Magic 8 Ball feature – but the Android version Easter egg is one of the most consistent and enjoyable oddities. Last month, Lolli sat at 21% on the dot.

Android 4.4 KitKat was on 38.9 percent of devices this time around, which is slightly less than the 39.2 percent share it claimed in September. As for the trio of Jelly Bean iterations combined, they now hold a 30.2% market share, down from 31.8%. In the recently published chart for the beginning of October, Google has revealed to all and sundry that 23.5% of all active Android devices happen to run on Android 5.x Lollipop at the moment, now how about that for progress? Oddly enough, Froyo is still stuck at 0.2% of installs, just as it was in September.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich – Nyan Cat with a so-called “Nyandroid” instead of a cat. It started out with a zombified Gingerbread painting in Android 2.3, and grew from static images to little interactive animations.

The data collected during a 7-day period ending on October is at the base of the statistics.

It’s also worth mentioning that this data has been gathered from the new Google Play Store app, which supports Android 2.2 and above, so devices powered by older versions are not included.