Tag: Android Marshmallow

Android 6.0 “Marshmallow” is the eighth major version of the Android operating system. First unveiled in May 2015 at Google I/O under the codename “Android ‘M'”, it was officially released in October 2015.

Marshmallow primarily focuses on improving the overall user experience of Lollipop, introducing a new permissions architecture, new APIs for contextual assistants (a feature notably leveraged by “Now On Tap”—a new capability of the Google searching by contextualizing an app into a simpler interface by Google Now), a new power management system that reduces background activity when a device is not being physically handled, native support for fingerprint recognition and USB Type-C connectors, the ability to migrate data and applications to a microSD card and use it as primary storage, as well as other internal changes.

As of June 2016, 10.1% of the devices accessing Google Play run Android 6.0.