This means devices running older versions are not included, nor are devices that don’t have Google Play installed (which includes many Android phones and tablets in China, Amazon’s Fire line, and so on). With the start of January now here and right on cue, the Android team has today released the most up to date figures for the current Android Distribution. You’re in good company.
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In terms of the latest figures, the latest version of Android, Marshmallow, has seen an increase since last month, albeit a rather incremental one with the latest distribution coming in at 0.7-percent.
Google tracked the market share of Marshmallow and its Android predecessors by looking at all the devices that visited the Google Play store during the seven-day period ending Monday.
Marshmallow comes preinstalled on Google’s new Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P and was pushed to other Nexus devices starting October 5.
Unfortunately, the beta version is only available in the United Kingdom and South Korea, but after the testing phase of the beta version, Android 6.0 Marshmallow will be available to Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge users around the world, according to GottaBeMobile. Aside from the new Material Design language, Android 5.0 also makes a jump to the new Android Runtime (ART), which, at the beginning, did break some apps.
A 0.7 % adoption level when 3 months is bad.
Nevertheless, they reveal a lot about how the new Android 6.0 Marshmallow update will look with Samsung’s new TouchWiz UI layered on top, and the results are quite pleasant – especially if you’re a fan of Apple’s iOS 7 and onward. As the largest Android vendor, Samsung will certainly bump up the share for Marshmallow once it starts pushing the new version to its flagship devices.
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The chart can now practically be divided into three parts, with the three Jelly Bean brothers (24.7%), KitKat (36.1%), and the two Lollipop releases (32.6%) taking up the bulk of the pie.
