The list of the 10 most popular Android smartphones in the United States was recently published by Animoca. She also shared data on the most common versions of Android.

According to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Google controls too large a share of the local mobile market and does not want to share the source code.

CEO of the company Ouya Julie Urman (Julie Uhrman) in an interview with the famous resource Engadget said that new versions of the eponymous portable game console based on Android will be released every year.

Owners of Android smartphones and tablets who are nostalgic for console retro games received a gift – Libretro has released a RetroArch Android emulator that allows you to run vintage toys on Android.

Another game from the retro treasury has received registration on mobile platforms. Yesterday, a ported version of the original Lode Runner premiered in the App Store and Google Play.

Google has launched a mini-service that allows developers to create a branded promo “badge” of any application in the Google Play store in a matter of moments. 

According to The Next Web resource, Google has allowed all developers to respond to comments and reviews of applications on Google Play.

Google has shared the latest information about the segmentation of devices based on the Android platform. According to these data, the latest version of the system known as Jelly Bean (4.1 and 4.2) continues to demonstrate high dynamics. 

In the first days of the new year 2013, a loud announcement was made. Canonical has officially presented the mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system.

Flurry estimates that during the Christmas week (from December 25 to December 31, 2012), users activated over 50 million new iOS and Android devices and made 1.76 billion app downloads.

Google today published a list of Android games that, in its opinion, have become the best in the outgoing year. The name of the collection speaks for itself – Games We Love: Best Games of 2012.

A few days before the New Year, Google published a list of the best apps for Android OS in its opinion.

With an eye on PocketGamer, we decided to recall which mobile games in the past year were most often mentioned in connection with high earnings.

The MBAOnline portal not so long ago pleased with a large infographic telling about Android in numbers. We decided, with the kind permission of the portal, to translate it and present it to your attention.

YouTube has announced the release of the long-promised Player API for Android developers, allowing them to integrate videos into their applications.

The Ukrainian edition of Forbes reported that according to the statistics of the two largest Ukrainian mobile operators “Kyivstar” and “MTS Ukraine” in recent months, the largest growth in the number of devices was recorded on the Android platform.

Google has reported high growth dynamics of the latest versions of Android. The share of last year’s Ice Cream Sandwich is also actively growing – this OS is installed on more than a quarter of all Google devices.

The team developing Ouya, a miniature Android-based game console, announced that on December 28 it will begin sending out “developer” versions of its device to interested developers.

The most common Android version in the USA is Ice Cream Sandwich. Most American users of Android devices work with it. The second place is for Gingerbread.