Lollipop is the new Android king


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 09 Mar 2016

Design-shift: The most prominent feature of Lollipop was Material Design which saw a shift in the user interface design language by Google.


Most Android devices are still running on the older Lollipop, KitKat and Jelly Bean versions years after the general release. Image source: Android
Most Android devices are still running on older Android versions such as Lollipop, KitKat and Jelly Bean.


According to search giant, the data is gathered from the new Google Play Store app which only supports Android 2.2 and up.

In any case Google is not waiting for Marshmallow to catch up – it is set to announce the next version of the OS, codenamed N, in May at the annual Google I/O developer conference.

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