Android Nougat 7.0 and 7.1 together now adopted by 1.2 percent Android devices.
After being released five months ago, the latest Android OS distribution reveals that Nougat has finally gone past 1 percent of Android devices. Out of the total adoption statistics of Nougat, which is at 1.2 percent, Android 7.0 is higher than that of Android 7.1. While 0.9 percent of Android devices run Android 7.0 operating system, only 0.3 percent adopted the latest Android 7.1. This records a 0.5 percent increase from last month’s distribution, when the total adoption rate of Nougat was 0.7 percent.
Talking about Marshmallow, even that has seen a slightly more than a percent of increase in adoption. As compared to 29.6 percent users on Android Marshmallow last month, February’s Android Developer Dashboard records 30.7 percent devices running the iteration. However, going by Android versions, the reigning king still remains Android Lollipop with 32.9 percent adoption rate.
Analysing the overall distribution, Marshmallow and Nougat were the only devices to see some gains this month, all other Android versions saw a decline. Ice Cream Sandwich and Gingerbeard are now level on 1 percent dead, while Jelly Bean saw a 0.3 percent decrease. Lollipop also decreased by 0.5 percent, but still is the biggest named release, with 32.9 percent market share.
Last month, the ancient Android version, Froyo, was recorded running on less than 0.1 percent devices, and for the first time did not make it to the list, marking the demise of the OS iteration. ALSO READ: How to get Android 7.1.2 Nougat Beta on your Google Pixel, Pixel XL and Nexus devices
In January, Android Lollipop, versions 5.0 and 5.1 combined, ran on 33 percent of Android devices, whereas Android Marshmallow 6.0 is now on 29 percent of Android devices. The latest Android version, Nougat, was still at a nascent stage with less than one percent share. Android 2.3.3 -2.3.7 Gingerbread still hung on with one percent share, whereas Android 4.0.3 – 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich clung on with 1.1 percent share. According to the list, Android Jelly Bean (4.1-4.3) was running on 10 percent of devices approximately, while Android 4.4 KitKat is ran on 19 percent of Android devices.