Android Nougat Makes its Debut In This Months Install Base Report
Today the Android team released their distribution report meets install base report and Android Nougat has made its debut in the report. While the number is small – .3% – it is a positive sign that it has hit this report after a month on essentially only Nexus devices. Given that other manufactures and Google themselves have rolled out the new Pixel lineup with Nougat, this number is only going to go up and likely at a faster clip than that of Marshmallow. Speaking of Marshmallow, that build had a healthy bump in usage this month, up to 24% of the install base. That’s up several percentage points over the October report.
Interesting, king of the hill remains to be Android Lollipop. That now 2+ year old version of Android is on 34.1% of all devices that hit the Play Store for the week ending November 7, 2016. Given the huge number of devices that are out there running Lollipop and that will never see an update to Marshmallow, it is likely that KitKat’s install base will continue to be high for quite some time.