Google has launched its latest monthly Android distribution chart for the month of February. And the biggest news is that Android Nougat has finally passed 1%, after almost 6 months of being officially announced. Nougat is now running on 1.2% of android devices of which 0.9% of devices run Nougat 7.0 while 0.3% on Nougat 7.1.
Gingerbread and ICS are almost at the end of life with 1% distribution. Jelly Bean is 0.3% decreased and Lollipop is decreased by 0.5% compared to last month. Marshmallow has by almost grow by almost 1.0%. Marshmallow is the largest numbered version among all. But, Lollipop is still the biggest named release, with 32.9% market share with 5.0 at 9.8% and 5.1 at 23.1%.
| Version | Codename | API | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3.3 – 2.3.7 |
Gingerbread | 10 | 1.0% |
| 4.0.3 – 4.0.4 |
Ice Cream Sandwich | 15 | 1.0% |
| 4.1.x | Jelly Bean | 16 | 4.0% |
| 4.2.x | 17 | 5.7% | |
| 4.3 | 18 | 1.6% | |
| 4.4 | KitKat | 19 | 21.9% |
| 5.0 | Lollipop | 21 | 9.8% |
| 5.1 | 22 | 23.1% | |
| 6.0 | Marshmallow | 23 | 30.7% |
| 7.0 | Nougat | 24 | 0.9% |
| 7.1 | 25 | 0.3% |
As a lot of new smartphones will be launching at MWC in the next few days. We hope the number of Android devices running Android Nougat will have a bigger chunk.
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