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TL;DR<\/p>\n
Google has finally updated its Android distribution statistics for the first time following the stable release of Android 16.
\nThe last figures the company provided arrived in April of 2025.
\nAndroid 16 already enjoys a 7.5% share, as of early December.<\/p>\n
With as much as we focus on Google\u2019s latest Android fixes and improvements<\/a>, looking at feature drops, Beta and Canary releases<\/a>, and always obsessing about what\u2019s happening next, it\u2019s easy to lose sight of the fact that much of the world is still operating on some pretty ancient Android releases. Every once in a while, though, we get a reminder of what this landscape really looks like as Google shares its updated platform distribution statics<\/a>. It\u2019s been the better part of year since we last got some fresh numbers, and now Google is once again updating its breakdown.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/p>\n Time was, these figures were publicly posted on Google\u2019s dev pages, offering an easy peek at the current state of Android version adoption. Updates weren\u2019t frequent, but at least the numbers were there. Then Google finally abandoned even this approach, and ever since it\u2019s been hiding them within tools like Android Studio. 9to5Google<\/a> just spotted that the numbers there have received an update, offering us a look at Android usage as sampled at the beginning of December.<\/p>\n Looking back to April of last year, when we previously got an update, there\u2019s not a huge shift in usage trends across old Android versions. Our most current release is still picking up steam, while the five previous editions all still enjoy greater than 10% penetration. That said, there are some important distinctions worth noticing, and there\u2019s a much closer running between the older releases here than we observed last time, when there was a >10% difference between Android 14 and 13.<\/p>\n We also see a notable shift in the uptake of our current release. Back in April, Android 15 was only in use on some 4.5% of devices. But here we\u2019re already seeing Android 16 take hold of a much larger share, hitting 7.5% in just a few months.<\/p>\n![\"google](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766572210_733_google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/ "\\"google"){kind=icon}
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