Google has updated its Android Distribution Dashboard, which confirms that Android Pie has indeed made progress since its release last year. The company had not updated the dashboard for more than six months, and the last available data is of October 2018.
Now, the dashboard has been updated to reflect the distribution of various versions of Android across active Android devices. The Mountain View-based company now claims that there are over 2.5 billion active devices running Android 9 Pie. This means that the new version is powering 10.4 percent of active devices. This is ahead of the schedule compared to the past releases.
This quick adoption of Android Pie can be seen as a win for Google, and specifically for Project Treble. The new update method was first introduced in Android Oreo and Pie gave it its first chance to really work.
The data reveals that Android Oreo, which was released about two years ago, is currently the most widely used operating system among all active devices. It has an install base of 28.3 percent with Android 8.0 Oreo active on 12.9 percent devices and Android 8.1 Oreo on 15.4 percent devices.
Android Oreo is followed by Android Nougat, which has a total install base of 19.2 percent with Android 7.0 Nougat on 11.4 percent devices and Android 7.1 Nougat on 7.8 percent devices. The distribution index is based on data collected during a 7-day period that ended on May 7, 2019.
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Google has also provided an update on the massive number of devices running on Android. During the keynote, the company confirmed that a whopping 2.5 billion devices are currently running on the Android platform as monthly active devices.
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