Android Nougat is officially the most widely used version of Android

Android 7.0 Nougat

The latest version, Android 8.0 Oreo, is a distant sixth.

Android 7.0 Nougat is the most widely used version of the system.

The most widely used version of the mobile operating system, running on 28.5 percent of devices (in both versions 7.0 and 7.1), according to an update in the developer portal of Google. today(through 9to5Google ).

That number narrowly caps the second most used version of Android, 6.0 Marshmallow (released in 2015), which still stands at 28.1 percent.

As for Google's latest 8.0 Oreo update released last fall? Adoption reaches just 1.1 percent of Android devices, leaving it in a distant sixth place.

Still, it's an improvement over the 0.2 percent of devices that Oreo were running before October 2, 2017. .

Android devices have always suffered from fragmentation when it comes to software updates. For many phones, the version of Android that you installed on your phone when you bought it is often the one you will always have.

But the fact that Nougat - an update that is now over a year and a half old - is simply taking the crown for most users really highlights the problem.

Things get worse if you take a look on the other side of the fence. in Apple's iOS numbers . Yes, there are about the same percentage of users (28 percent) using iOS 10, which was released at about the same time as Nougat.

But that's a minority compared to the 65 percent of devices running the latest iOS 11 software, which only emphasizes how far Google has to go.