The N Developer Preview runs from 9 March 2016 until the final Android N public release to AOSP and OEMs, planned for Q3 2016.
At key development milestones, we’ll deliver updates for your development and testing environment. In general you can expect an update each month (4 to 6 week interval). The milestones are listed below.
- Preview 1 (initial release, alpha)
- Preview 2 (incremental update, alpha)
- Preview 3 (incremental update, beta)
- Preview 4 (final APIs and official SDK, Play publishing)
- Preview 5 (near-final system images for final testing)
- Final release to AOSP and ecosystem
Each update includes SDK tools, preview system images, emulators, reference documentation, and API diffs.
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This section provides data about the relative number of devices running a given version of the Android platform.
For information about how to target your application to devices based on platform version, read Supporting Different Platform Versions.
| Version | Codename | API | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.2 | Froyo | 8 | 0.1% |
| 2.3.3 - 2.3.7 | Gingerbread | 10 | 1.7% |
| 4.0.3 - 4.0.4 | Ice Cream Sandwich | 15 | 1.6% |
| 4.1.x | Jelly Bean | 16 | 6.0% |
| 4.2.x | 17 | 8.3% | |
| 4.3 | 18 | 2.4% | |
| 4.4 | KitKat | 19 | 29.2% |
| 5.0 | Lollipop | 21 | 14.1% |
| 5.1 | 22 | 21.4% | |
| 6.0 | Marshmallow | 23 | 15.2% |
Data collected during a 7-day period ending on August 1, 2016.
Any versions with less than 0.1% distribution are not shown.
Any versions with less than 0.1% distribution are not shown.
Source : developer.android.com
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