Google has presented its regular monthly report on the relative number Android of devices, depending on the version of the operating system they are running. The presented report shows that the share of Android 5.x devices has exceeded one third (34.1%) of all devices, while the share of other versions, except for devices with the latest version Android 6.x Marshmallow, which showed almost double growth in comparison with the previous month – from 0.7% to 1.2%.
Note that the data received was collected during the last week – until February 1, based on the results of calls Android of devices to the Play Market online store.
Recall that the collection of data for this report is carried out according to a new method, where now devices with versions of operating systems earlier than Android 2.2 that do not support the new version of the Google Play Store, which allows measuring the number of devices actively connecting to the store applications. In addition, operating system versions with a percentage of less than 0.1% are automatically excluded from the report.