Google’s monthly updated chart showing the distribution of the Android operating system reveals Marshmallow is now powering 15.2 percent of devices. This number is an increase from 13.3 percent in July.
Following similar trends from previous months, Lollipop has continued its dominance by being on 35.5 percent of devices, which is an increase from four weeks ago from 35.1 percent. KitKat, which was released in October of 2013, dropped in usage to 29.2 percent from 30.1 percent of Android devices.
4.X Jelly Bean is still prominent but also continued its drop by a percentage point to be found on 16.7 percent of Android devices. Froyo, Gingerbread, and Ice Cream Sandwich are still being used somewhere around the world and active on just 3.4 percent of devices, which dropped by 0.6 percent from June.
New Nexus devices are en route, currently known as the HTC Nexus ‘Sailfish’ and ‘Marlin,’ which are tipped to run Android 7.0 Nougat. In addition, LG has confirmed it will be releasing the V20 running Android Nougat in Q3.
Source: MobileSyrup.com