Android 6.0 Marshmallow cracks 15%, others shrink slowly

For the seven days ended on August 1st, Android 6.0 Marshmallow was found to be installed on 15.2% of Android devices that visited the Google Play Store during that week.

Android Marshmallow gained 1.9 percentage points to hit 15.2 percent, though it’s still in fourth place. Either way, it looks like Lollipop will likely keep growing while Marshmallow may begin to drop as the time Android Nougat launches approaches us. It had a 35.1 percent share in July and claimed a 35.5 percent share in August.

For reference, KitKat is now on 29.2% of devices, Jelly Bean is on 16.7%, ICS is on 1.6%, Gingerbread is on 1.7% (surprisingly), and Froyo stubbornly remains at 0.1%. The team behind Android releases information on platform versions regularly to show the number of devices running a given version of the Android platform. Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) slipped from 1.7 percent to 1.6 percent. Also, Android versions that have less than 0.1 percent adoption, such as Android 3.0 Honeycomb, are not listed. Gingerbread also dropped by 0.2% to 1.7%, and Froyo is now present on 0.1% of all Android devices, thus maintaining its share.

All versions prior to 6.0 lost numbers, with pre-KitKat versions still powering one in five of all Android devices.