Since then at least 70% of the users of those old versions have upgraded to a newer version.A 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. 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.
Android file transfer marshmallow skin#
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.
Android file transfer marshmallow update#
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.