To be honest, less than 1% of active Android devices are running a version of Android that will no longer receive Google Play Services updates. Specifically, devices running Android 4.0 to 4.0.4 will no longer update the Play Services APK beyond version 14.7.99 from the Google Play Store. ![]() With this news, anyone running Ice Cream Sandwich will no longer get those updates to Google Play Services. These major version updates do bring some of the most talked about new features (as they add new APIs to AOSP) but there are a ton of new features that get added to smartphones thanks to Google Play Services. In the latest example, Android Pie was released 4 months ago but some of the biggest smartphone OEMs on the market are just now getting around to doing public beta tests for the update. ![]() A lot of people talk about Android fragmentation when referring to major versions of Android.
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