Android has dominated the mobile landscape for several years now, and it doesn’t look like that dominance will disappear anytime soon. At Google I/O, Sundar Pichai revealed that there are 1 billion Android users. With the explosive developmental growth in places such as the African continent, India, and China, it’s hard to predict Android’s numbers going anywhere but up.
China is an especially interesting market for Android given the difficulties Google has had in the past dealing with the Chinese government. Even today, the Play Store remains blocked by the Great Firewall in mainland China. What does this mean for Google and Android? Of the nearly 900 million smartphone users in China, approximately 77.4% of those users are operating an Android device. That means there are about 700 million active Android users in China — more than double the population of the United States — and none of them have official access to the Google Play Store!
Source: Exploring the Android Ecosystem in China — Interview by XDA — Medium