Sixth major version of the Android operating system
Android Marshmallow
Version of the Android operating system
Developer
Google
General availability
September 29, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-09-29)[1][2]
Final release
6.0.1_r81 (MOI10E)[3] / October 1, 2017; 6 years ago (2017-10-01)[4]
Kernel type
Monolithic (Linux)
Preceded by
Android 5.1.1 "Lollipop"
Succeeded by
Android 7.0 "Nougat"
Official website
www.android.com/versions/marshmallow-6-0/
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[update], 1.4% of Android devices ran Marshmallow.[7] Security updates for Marshmallow ended in October 2017.
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