See also: Android version history § Android 6.0 Marshmallow User experience Ī new "Assist" API allows information from a currently opened app, including text and a screenshot of the current screen, to be sent to a designated " assistant" application for analysis and processing.
Īndroid 6.0.1, a software patch featuring security fixes, support for Unicode 8.0 emoji (although without supporting skin tone extensions for human emoji), and the return of the "until next alarm" feature in Do Not Disturb mode, was released on December 7, 2015.
On October 14, 2015, LG announced that it planned to release Marshmallow for its flagship LG G4 smartphone in Poland the following week, marking the first third-party device to receive an update to Marshmallow. Older Nexus devices, including the Nexus 4, Nexus 7 (2012) and Nexus 10, did not receive an official update. Īndroid 6.0 updates and factory images for Nexus 5, 6, 7 (2013), 9, and Player were released on October 5, 2015. On September 29, 2015, Google unveiled launch devices for Marshmallow: the LG-produced Nexus 5X, the Huawei-produced Nexus 6P, alongside Google's own Pixel C tablet. The second developer preview was released on July 9, 2015, and the third and final preview was released on August 17, 2015, along with announcing that Android M would be titled Android " Marshmallow". The first developer preview build, codenamed Android "M", was unveiled and released at Google I/O on May 28, 2015, for the Nexus 5 and Nexus 6 smartphones, Nexus 9 tablet, and Nexus Player set-top box. The release was internally codenamed "Macadamia Nut Cookie". Since then at least 70% of the users of those old versions have upgraded to a newer version. It introduced a new 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.Īs of August 2021, less than 5% of Android devices use this version, and when it was warned that a billion users use this (or older) version, by then no longer supported with security updates, was when 40% used those versions. Marshmallow primarily focuses on improving the overall user experience of its predecessor, Lollipop. First released as a beta build on May 28, 2015, it was officially released on October 5, 2015, with the Nexus devices being the first to receive the update.
October 2, 2015 6 years ago ( ) Ħ.0.1_r81 (MOI10E) / October 1, 2017 4 years ago ( ) Īndroid Marshmallow ( codenamed Android M during development) is the sixth major version of the Android operating system and the 13th version of Android. Android Marshmallow home screen with some stock Google apps on the Nexus 5