Google has published its latest monthly breakdown of platform usage, showing the proportion of active devices running each version of the Android OS. The data was collected during a seven-day period ending on October 2, and only represents devices that have visited the Google Play Store during that period, so it does not include AOSP devices.
| Version | Codename | API | Last month | This month | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3.3 - 2.3.7 | Gingerbread | 10 | 0.6% | 0.6% | - |
| 4.0.3 - 4.0.4 | Ice Cream Sandwich | 15 | 0.6% | 0.6% | - |
| 4.1.x | Jelly Bean | 16 | 2.4% | 2.3% | -0.1 |
| 4.2.x | 17 | 3.5% | 3.3% | -0.2 | |
| 4.3 | 18 | 1.0% | 1.0% | - | |
| 4.4 | KitKat | 19 | 15.1% | 14.5% | -0.6 |
| 5.0 | Lollipop | 21 | 7.1% | 6.7% | -0.4 |
| 5.1 | 22 | 21.7% | 21.0% | -0.7 | |
| 6.0 | Marshmallow | 23 | 32.2% | 32.0% | -0.2 |
| 7.0 | Nougat | 24 | 14.2% | 15.8% | 1.6 |
| 7.1 | 25 | 1.6% | 2.0% | 0.4 | |
| 8.0 | Oreo | 26 | - | 0.2% | 0.2 |
As has been the case lately, both Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich remain stagnant at 0.6% of all Google Play Android devices. Jelly Bean saw a combined loss of 0.3%, which is less than last month"s 0.7%.
For the first time in over a year and a half, Android 4.4 KitKat didn"t have the biggest loss on the list with 0.6%, and that"s likely due to the fact that its usage share has shrunken by so much. Instead, that honor falls to Lollipop with a combined loss of 1.1%, or even just 5.1 Lollipop, which shrunk by 0.7%.
Marshmallow continues to shrink by small amounts, as the version of the OS is beginning to age. The year-old Nougat is continuing to grow by the heaviest amounts with growth of 2.0%.
The biggest news though is that Android 8.0 Oreo has made its way to the list (the qualifier is that it has to be on over 0.1% of Google Play devices), with 0.2%. It"s interesting that it"s shown this early on, since the update has only been released for Nexus and Pixel devices, and is only shipping on a couple of Sony handsets.