Google’s latest Android stats reveal the consequence of 15’s glacial deployment
Google has published its latest breakdown of how many devices are running which versions of Android. Android 16 has yet to even appear on the radar, and Android 15 has only hit a 4.5% share. Android 14, meanwhile, has seen huge growth to hit over 27% of of devices worldwide. Android 16 Beta 4 landed last week for the Pixel testing community. Android 15 is rolling out now to Samsung devices with the distribution of One UI 7. Keep up with headlines like these, and you could easily get the impression that Android users everywhere are basking in the creature comforts of Google’s latest, greatest mobile platform releases. In reality, though, the vast majority of us are running Android 14, Android 13, or even some depressingly older editions. This week we’re getting our latest peek into just what that breakdown looks like. Google no longer shares its Android distribution statistics in the nice, predictable fashion it had in the platform’s earlier days, but if we’re lucky, once or twice a year the company will run the numbers and update the figures it provides through Android Studio — after all, devs using that tool want to be sure they’re targeting their efforts towards the broadest slices of users. Now 9to5Google has spotted some new data incoming.