As always, the stats are based on active devices interacting with Google Play over the period of a week. (“Data collected during a 7-day period ending on July 23, 2018. Any versions with less than 0.1% distribution are not shown”).

The main takeaway is the notable increase for the latest version of Android – “Oreo”, Version 8 – which seems to have eaten into the share of the recent Android “Nougat” 7.x distributions.

In other words newer devices have kept up to date, tracking Android developments. Older devices, not so much. Jelly Bean, Kit Kat and Lollipop versions – spanning varioulsy 4.x and 5.x – have only been nibbled away.

Monthly comparison

See Google’s developers dashboard for the full latest stats, but here are the detailed Android platform share figures. They include comparison to the previously released totals, for a bit more context…

(Note, however, as mentioned, that were no stats released in June, so comparisons are actually with May’s totals.)

2.3 – 2.3.2 Gingerbread – disappeared
2.3.3 – 2.3.7 – (was 0.3%) – 0.2%
3.2 Honeycomb – disappeared
4.0.3 – 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich – (was 0.4%) – 0.3%
4.1 Jelly Bean – (was 1.5%) – 1.2%
4.2 Jelly Bean – (was 2.2%) – 1.9%
4.3 Jelly Bean – (was 0.6%) – 0.5%
4.4 KitKat – (was 10.3%) – 9.1%
5.0 Lollipop – (was 4.8%) – 4.2%
5.1 Lollipop – (was 17.6%) – 16.2%
6.0 Marshmallow – (was 25.5%) – 23.5%
7.0 Nougat – (was 22.9%) – 21.2%
7.1 Nougat – (was 8.2%) – 9.6%
8.0 Oreo – (was 4.9%) – 10.1%
8.1 Oreo – (was 0.8%) – 2.0%

See the full stats at developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html