Android now has 1 billion active users

Google is releasing some stats at their Google I/O event.  According to The Next Web, they’ve now switched from device activation counters to 30-day user activity metric.  Here’s how the growth over the last few years looks like:

That’s a lot in my book.  With about 7 billion people living in the world, that’s 1 in every 7 people on the planet uses an Android device.

1 billion #Android devices out in the world. That’s something like 93 million selfies taken every day … give or take #io14

— Google (@Google) June 25, 2014