As its does every month, has updated the Android distribution numbers, showing the percentage of smartphones tablets that have accessed the ay Store in the past month their respective Android versions. The latest update to the numbers show KitKat jumping more that 5% in one month, Honeycomb officially gone from the chart. 

Android 4.4 KitKat jumped 5.1% to 13.6% in the latest numbers, nipping at the heels of Gingerbread’s languishing 14.9%. If KitKat continues to see this growth next month, it will beat out Gingerbread to become the second most-used version of the operating system.This shouldn’t prove to be too hard, with soon-to-launch smartphones tablets like the  G3  Galaxy Tab S line shipping with Android 4.4 out of the box.

lly Bean is unsurprisingly still the top dog in the chart, holding onto 58.4%. In stark contrast, Android 2.2 Froyo is still hanging on to the chart with 0.8% of the pie, though it’s pretty easy to see that it’s on its way out. Speaking of things that are on the way out, the forgettable Android 3.0 Honeycomb is officially gone from the chart, meaning that it consisted of less than 0.1% of tablets accessing the ay Store last month. 

continues to place more functionality in it’s easily-updated apps rather than the core operating system, making it less important to be on the bleeding edge Android release. Still, to provide consistency for developers, it’s important that the installed base catch up. The good news there is that about 72% of the Android installed base (of devices that can access the ay Store) are running lly Bean (4.1) or better.