Sundar Pichai, Google’s head of Android announced that currently there are one billion active Android users. He revealed this stats at Google I/O 2014 Keynote at SanFrancisco. It is up from a 538 million figure from last year’s I/O.
He also revealed a few other interesting stats for the platform, including that Android users send 20 billion texts per day and 93 million selfies.
Google opted to track 30-day usage as opposed to year-over-year numbers as in the past.
Android app installs have also grown significantly, up 236 percent from last year.
According to Google, the OS powers 62 percent of tablets this year, up from 46 percent last year.
