It’s delayed fairly significantly this month, but Google has finally gotten around to releasing the platform distribution numbers for the week leading up to September 11th. With a new OS now in the wild, it seems older versions of Android are dropping in popularity.
Across the board there was a drop in distribution for all versions of Android with the exception of Nougat (Android 7.0/7.1). There is disappointingly no entry for Oreo as yet, but it will come likely next month.
The lowest end versions of Android: Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich continue to decrease in popularity with just 0.6% market share each – a slide into obscurity is on the way, but it will take a little more time. Marshmallow is still by far the most popular version of Android, with just over 32% of the numbers, but it saw a 0.1% drop from last month.
For the record, here’s how the number stacked up against last month:
| Android Version | August 2017 | September 2017 |
| Android 2.3.3 – 2.3.7 (Gingerbread) | 0.7% | 0.6% |
| Android 4.0.3 – 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) | 0.7% | 0.6% |
| Android 4.1.x (JellyBean) | 2.7% | 2.4% |
| Android 4.2.x (JellyBean) | 3.8% | 3.5% |
| Android 4.3 (JellyBean) | 1.1% | 1.0 |
| Android 4.4 (KitKat) | 16.0% | 15.1 |
| Android 5.0 (Lollipop) | 7.4% | 7.1% |
| Android 5.1 (Lollipop) | 21.8% | 21.7% |
| Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) | 32.3% | 32.2% |
| Android 7.0 (Nougat) | 12.3% | 14.2% |
| Android 7.1 (Nougat) | 1.2% | 1.6% |
My Nexus 6P finally got the 8.0 Oreo update today.