Android Marshmallow News: Marshmallow 6.0 now on 10.1% of active devices

By Ajay Kadkol - 10 Jun '16 13:53PM

Google has made the 'Google play distribution data' available for public viewing. The report saw the revealing share of various Android versions running on active devices. The data was collected during the seven-day period ending June 6, and it shows that Android 6.0 Marshmallow now runs on 10.1 percent of active devices, a 2.6 percent increase over the May figure of 7.5 percent.

Android 6.0 Marshmallow has been slow to gain adoption while they're not sure whether it's due to the low number of new devices being released with the latest operating system version, or a few or absolutely no OS updates from Android OEMs is hard to predict. To put the numbers in perspective, Android 6.0 Marshmallow made it to 1 percent of active devices in February, five months after its release to Nexus devices.

The June Android version distribution data shows that Android Lollipop has a total share of 35.4 percent of active Android devices with Android 5.0 Lollipop running on 15.4 percent of devices and Android 5.1 Lollipop on 20 percent that are checked into Google Play. Last month, Android Lollipop had a total share of 35.6 percent of active Android devices.

Google gathers figures from active devices visiting the Google Play app, which only supports Android 2.2 Froyo and above. KitKat continues to drop, now registering at 31.6 percent of active devices down from 32.5 percent last month. Jelly Bean that is v4.1.2 and ahead till v4.3 on the other hand as a total share of 18.9 percent, dropping down from 20.1 percent. Android 4.1.x was seen running on 6.8 percent devices which is a downfall from 7.2 percent while Android 4.2.x was seen on 9.4 percent down from 10 percent and Android 4.3 on 2.7 percent devices which fell from 2.9 percent.Ice Cream Sandwich that is Android v4.0 was seen on 1.9 percent of devices down from 2 percent last month. Android Gingerbread v2.3.3-2.3.7 was at 2.0 percent down from 2.2 percent, while Android 2.2 Froyo remained at 0.1 percent.