TL;DR
- Google has finally updated its Android distribution statistics for the first time following the stable release of Android 16.
- The last figures the company provided arrived in April of 2025.
- Android 16 already enjoys a 7.5% share, as of early December.
With as much as we focus on Google’s latest Android fixes and improvements, looking at feature drops, Beta and Canary releases, and always obsessing about what’s happening next, it’s 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. It’s been the better part of year since we last got some fresh numbers, and now Google is once again updating its breakdown.
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