Android is a bitter sweet operating system for Google - it may be on more devices than any other operating system but fragmentation is a bit of a nuissance.
Android Lollipop has been around for a good eight months now, yet uptake remains slow as manufacturers and carriers take their time rolling out the software.
The latest data from Google collected during a 7-day period ending on August 3 shows that Lollipop is now on almost a fifth of Android smartphones and tablets.
Since June 1 Lollipop 5.0 has increased from 11.6% to 15.5%, while the more recent update 5.1 went from 0.8% to 2.6%, giving Lollipop an 18.1% share overall.
But it's remains dwarfed by its predecessor KitKat, which is now on 39.3% of Android machines (up 0.1%) and all three versions of Jelly Bean combined at 33.6%.
However, Jellybean is now on 3.8% few devices, as is Ice Cream Sandwich and Gingerbread, which both fell by 1% each (now standing at 4.1% and 4.6% respectively).
Android could get even more fragmented by Autumn though, as Google planning to launch its next version M.
