Mobile adoption trends change with every season. Summer of 2018 brings a new change in these trends. In this newsletter, we bring to you the latest figures of market usage of phones, tablets, vendors, operating systems and have compared their usage trends being followed in the markets of the United States versus rest of the World. Software Engineering teams will find this comparison statistics helpful in devising the device testing matrix for planning the releases of their products across the globe.
MobiCast - Summer 2018
Desktop/Mobile/Tablet Market Share, Global vs US
Operating Systems Market Share, Global vs US
Android Market Share, Global vs US
iOS Market Share, Global vs US
iOS Market Share, iPhone vs iPad
Mobile Vendors Market Share, Global vs US
Tablet Vendors Market Share, Global vs US
News Flash
Open-source Mobile Automation Tools release updates
- Calabash-Android did not release any new version 0.9.2
Download link | Release notes - Calabash-iOS released a new version 0.21.5
Download link | Release notes - Appium released a new version 1.8.1
Download link | Release notes
Mobile OS release updates
- Apple released a new iOS version 11.4 beta 5 (build 15F5071a)
Download link | Release notes* iOS version 11.4 links are accessible using an Apple Developer account only - Google released a new version Android P (Developer Preview 2)
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Mobile OS SDK release updates
- Apple released a new Xcode version 9.4.1 (build 9F2000)
Download link | Release notes* iOS version 9.4 links are accessible using an Apple Developer account only - Google released a new Android Studio version 3.1.3
Download link | Release notes

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