Google, the company that is the active face of Android for a long time, every month publishes the data of the active Android distributions as of the date of the publication of the report. In this case, the report on the data of the Android versions in March 2017.
As expected, Android Nougat or Android 7, is still after almost a year of its official presentation in society, with very, very embarrassing numbers if we compare them with the numbers of its great rival Apple. And is that Android Nougat today is not installed even in 3% of active devices with Android operating system, although this is not all since although in a small percentage, there are still versions of Android Gingerbread or Android 2.3 installed on the odd Android terminal. Below we break down all this data of the Android versions active in the month of March 2017.
Report of the active Android versions in the month of March 2017
| Version | Name | API | Percentage | |
| 2.3.3/2.3.7 | Gingerbread | 10 | 1% | |
| 4.0.3/4.0.4 | Ice Cream Sandwich | 15 | 1% | |
| 4.1/4.2/4.3 | Jelly Bean | 16/17/18 | 10.6% | |
| 4.4 | Kit Kat | 19 | 20.8% | |
| 5.0/5.1 | Lollipop | 21/22 | 33.4% | |
| 6.0 | marshmallow | 23 | 31.3% | |
| 7.0/7.1 | Android Nougat | 24/25 | 2.8% |
How can you see in the aforementioned report of the Android versions active in the month of March 2017, the report that Google has just made public, it hurts to see that still 20.8% of terminals with Android operating system are rolling a version of Android Kit Kat, while Lollipop, which is now going to be three years old since its official presentation, is still only in 31.3% of active Android terminals today.
The same happens with Android 6.0 Marshmallow which, although it has improved a lot in terms of active terminals, the version of Android that will be two years from now after its official launch, also and as it happens to Lollipop, just It is in a little more than thirty percent of the active Android terminals today. Specifically Android Marshmallow is in 31.3% of active Android devices today, Thursday March 9, 2017.
While Android Nougat in the absence of less than six months to complete his first year of life, he is only officially installed in 2.8% of active Android terminals.
Without a doubt this is the big drawback that Android has and the big problem or black hole in which Google gets lost and is not able to find the exit to the definitive solution of this increasingly accentuated segmentation of the Android operating system.
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