Android Marshmallow

Android Marshmallow
Version of the Android operating system
DeveloperGoogle
General
availability
September 29, 2015 (2015-09-29)[1][2]
Final release6.0.1_r81 (MOI10E)[3] / October 1, 2017 (2017-10-01)[4]
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux)
Preceded byAndroid 5.1.1 "Lollipop"
Succeeded byAndroid 7.0 "Nougat"
Official websitewww.android.com/versions/marshmallow-6-0/ Edit this at Wikidata
Support status
Unsupported as of October 1, 2017

Android Marshmallow (codenamed Android M during development) is the sixth major version of the Android operating system developed by Google, being the successor to Android Lollipop. It was announced at Google I/O on May 28, 2015, and released the same day as a beta, before being officially released on September 29, 2015. It was succeeded by Android Nougat on August 22, 2016.[5]

Android Marshmallow primarily focuses on improving the overall user experience of its predecessor. It introduced a new opt-in permissions architecture, new APIs for contextual assistants (first used by a new feature "Now on Tap" to provide context-sensitive search results), a new power management system that reduces background activity when a device is not being physically handled, native support for fingerprint recognition and USB-C connectors, the ability to migrate data and applications to a microSD card, and other internal changes.

Android Marshmallow was met by low adoption numbers, with 13.3% of Android devices running Marshmallow by July 2016.[6] Usage of Marshmallow steadily increased since then, and by August 2017, 35.21% of Android devices ran Marshmallow, before receding. As of November 2023, 1.4% of Android devices ran Marshmallow.[7] Security updates for Marshmallow ended in October 2017.

  1. ^ "Refs/Tags/Android-6.0.0_r1 - platform/System/Core - Git at Google".
  2. ^ Rakowski, Brian (October 5, 2015). "Get ready for the sweet taste of Android 6.0 Marshmallow". Official Android Blog. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  3. ^ "Android Source". Google Git. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
  4. ^ "Codenames, Tags, and Build Numbers".
  5. ^ Burke, Dave (August 22, 2016). "Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat". Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  6. ^ Chokkattu, Julian; Pelegrin, William (July 12, 2016). "Android Marshmallow's adoption rate rises to 13.3 percent". Digital Trends. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
  7. ^ "Mobile & Tablet Android Version Market Share Worldwide". StatCounter Global Stats. Retrieved December 6, 2023.

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