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Android usage: Marshmallow sees its first loss; latest version of Nougat is stagnant

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Google released its monthly breakdown of Android usage today, and while Nougat is still making gains, usage of the latest version of the OS, 7.1, remains stagnant at just 0.4% of Google Play devices.
Google has published its latest monthly breakdown of platform usage , showing the proportion of active devices running each version of the Android OS. The data is collected during a 7-day period that ended on April 3, and it only represents devices that have visited the Google Play Store during that period, so to be clear, it does not include AOSP devices.
Obviously, the only winner this month was Android 7.0 Nougat, which saw an 87.5% increase in usage to 4.5%, although this isn’t exactly a number to brag about when the OS was released almost eight months ago.

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