Android 8.0 Oreo is on the charts, pre-Marshmallow versions are shrinking
The latest numbers are in and Oreo is on the charts! True, version 8.0 measured just 0.2% of all Androids out there but we think that number will grow quickly at the end of the year when a variety of flagships get the update.
As for older versions, 7.0 Nougat grew 2 percentage points while 6.0 Marshmallow remained flat. On the plus side, Lollipop, KitKat and all the other older versions are shrinking slowly but surely.
| Version | Codename | API | Distribution |
| 2.3.3 - 2.3.7 | Gingerbread | 10 | 0.6% |
| 4.0.3 - 4.0.4 | Ice Cream Sandwich | 15 | 0.6% |
| 4.1.x | Jelly Bean | 16 | 2.3% |
| 4.2.x | 17 | 3.3% | |
| 4.3 | 18 | 1.0% | |
| 4.4 | KitKat | 19 | 14.5% |
| 5.0 | Lollipop | 21 | 6.7% |
| 5.1 | 22 | 21.0% | |
| 6.0 | Marshmallow | 23 | 32.0% |
| 7.0 | Nougat | 24 | 15.8% |
| 7.1 | 25 | 2.0% | |
| 8.0 | Oreo | 26 | 0.2% |
There’s a growing movement among manufacturers to reduce the modifications they make to Android – HMD for one has committed to updating even its entry-level phones all the way to Android P. Project Treble will surely help as well.
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Manufacturers shouldn't even care about it. XXI century OS should have a proper driver subsystem and deployment subsystem and should be distributed in binaries.
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