Last month, we saw Android Oreo make its first appearance on the Android Distribution stats with a 0.2% mark that may seem small but considering over 2 billion smartphones run on Android, this is quite a significant number. Well, it’s a new month and Google has released the distribution stats for the month of November.
Android Oreo and Nougat had a growth curve as all other versions of Android declined in market share. Oreo now runs on 0.3% of all Android smartphones, Nougat, on the other hand, saw quite the growth, running on 20.6% of all Android smartphones.
Android Marshmallow that was launched two years ago is still the most popular version of Android with 30.9% market share in the Android world, it is followed closely by much older Android Lollipop at 27.2%. Interestingly, ancient KitKat, Jellybean and Gingerbread all have higher market share than Android Oreo.
Below you can find Android distribution numbers for November 2017:
| Android Version | Codename | API | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3.3-2.3.7 | Gingerbread | 10 | 0.5% |
| 4.0.3-4.0.4 | Ice Cream Sandwich | 15 | 0.5% |
| 4.1.x | Jelly Bean | 16 | 2.2% |
| 4.2.x | " | 17 | 3.1% |
| 4.3 | " | 18 | 0.9% |
| 4.4 | KitKat | 19 | 13.8% |
| 5.0 | Lollipop | 21 | 6.4% |
| 5.1 | " | 22 | 20.8% |
| 6.0 | Marshmallow | 23 | 30.9% |
| 7.0 | Nougat | 24 | 17.6% |
| 7.1 | " | 25 | 3.0% |
| 8.0 | Oreo | 26 | 0.3% |
*The data above is from Google. It was collected during a seven-day period ending on November 9, 2017. Any versions with less than 0.1 percent distribution are not shown.
