As per the latest Google Play distribution the data collected during a 7 day period ending on 11 July, 2016 reveals that the share of Android Lollipop and Android KitKat powered devices is dropping gradually while the number of Android Marshmallow based devices has gone up to 13.3 percent, thus showing a steady rise.
Last year Google’s Android Marshmallow version which was released was last month running on 10.1 percent, which means that in a month there has been a rise of 3.2 percent. If we recall, in May Android Marshmallow was running on 7.5 percent active Android devices. Though in recent months we find that the Marshmallow powered devices have increased but we find that the growth is at a very slow pace. Five months after its release to Nexus devices in February, Android 6.0 Marshmallow finally made it to 1 percent of active devices.
Data reveals that out of the total active Android devices, Android Lollipop has a total share of around 35.1 percent with Android 5.0 Lollipop running on 14.3 percent of devices and Android 5.1 version at 20.8 percent that check into Google Play. At the beginning of May it showed 35.4 percent. That is in one month it shows a minor decrease of 0.3 percent. According to the Android Developer’s webpage, on the chart we can see that the Android KitKat version is going down steadily, it shows a decrease of 1.5 percent, thus we see that in comparison to 31.6 percent last month it now shows 30.1 percent.
Android Jelly Bean has a combined share of 17.8 percent – falling 1.1 percent from June’s 18.9 percent. Android 4.0.x or Ice Cream Sandwich, in Google’s latest numbers, registered a share of 1.7 percent, down 0.2 percent from last month. Android Gingerbread (v2.3.3-2.3.7) and Android 2.2 Froyo’s device distribution shares are 1.9 percent (2 percent last month) and 0.1 percent (same as last month) respectively in the charts.