The latest version of Google’s Android platform, Ice Cream Sandwich (release 4.0), was used by 10.9 percent of devices visiting the Play store in the two weeks to 2 July 2012 – up from 7.1 percent for the fortnight to 1 June 2012.

As before, the bulk of store visits (64 percent) were from devices running a variant of Android Gingerbread (version 2.3), although this was down from 65 percent in the earlier period.

But the aging Froyo platform (Android 2.2) still outranks Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), making up 17.3 percent of visits.

Announced late last year, ICS has taken some time to gain traction, with progress slowed by the late rollout of updates to existing devices, as well as the time taken for high-profile devices such as Samsung’s Galaxy SIII to reach the market.

In addition, a number of vendors are still shipping devices powered by Android 2.3 in the mid-tier, which is enabling this platform to keep a solid – albeit diminishing – market share.

Google also provided a breakdown of screen sizes, across four categories (small, normal, large, xlarge) and densities (low DPI, medium DPI, high DPI and extra high DPI).

The majority of devices fell into the normal screen, and hdpi (57.5 percent), xhdpi (18 percent) or mdpi (12.9 percent) densities.

The company also said that 90.3 percent of devices visiting the store support OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0, as opposed to 9.7 percent which support OpenGL ES 1.1 only.