Android 6.0 Marshmallow passes 1 percent in Google’s latest distribution report

These stats are mainly released for the developer community and reveal the percentage of devices that check into the Google Play Store, as well as what Android version each smartphone is running. The latest data was gathered during the 7-day period ending yesterday, February 1. While the other most recent version of Android, 5.0 (Lollipop) also climbed to 32-percent. Sometimes that means removing features because they’ll no longer be needed, ie. they’ve become “deprecated”, as Google has chose to officially introduce the feature as a core feature of Android. In terms of the more finer details, this equated to a 17-percent distribution for Android 5.0 specifically and an nearly identical 17.1-percent level of distribution for Android 5.1. This is up from the previous month in which Marshmallow had climbed to 0.7-percent. Hopefully, by next month, Marshmallow will arrive on at least another 1 percent of all Android devices. KitKat remains the most used Android iteration, powering 35.5% of devices, down from 36.1% last month.

Android 2.2 Froyo is now the lowest distribution with 0.1%, down from 0.2%, but that makes ideal sense since this version of Android was launched back in 2010. Not even the combined might of three Jelly Bean releases, now only at 23.9%, can topple it.

While it’s a much better showing than the 0.2% movement that Marshmallow saw from December to January, the 0.5% rise this month doesn’t exactly qualify as explosive growth.