{"id":4252,"date":"2012-05-19T18:33:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T23:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2012-05-19T18:35:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T23:35:20","slug":"android-fragmentation-one-developer-encounters-3997-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4252","title":{"rendered":"Android fragmentation: one developer encounters 3,997 devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The developers logged 3,997 distinct devices, the most popular of which was the Samsung Galaxy S II. This figure was inflated quite a bit by custom ROMs, <strong>which overwrite the android.build.MODEL variable<\/strong> and cause those phones to be logged as separate devices. 1,363 types were logged only once, and while some were custom ROMs bucking the numbers, a good few were just massively unpopular devices\u2014for example, the Hungarian 10.1-inch Concorde Tab.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2012\/05\/android-fragmentation-one-developer-encounters-3997-devices\/\">Android fragmentation: one developer encounters 3,997 devices | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developers logged 3,997 distinct devices, the most popular of which was the Samsung Galaxy S II. This figure was inflated quite a bit by custom ROMs, which overwrite the android.build.MODEL variable and cause those phones to be logged as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4252\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","tag-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}