Android Lollipop now running on 30 percent of Android devices, Marshmallow up to 0.5 percent

Google is out with the monthly Android distribution numbers for the month of December. Lollipop 5.0 is now present on 29.5% of Android devices up from 25.6 percent in November.

Marshmallow that had debuted in the distribution chart last month at 0.3% has now increased its adoption to 0.5% in December. That was big jump in a month’s time. KitKat is still the second largest as it is present on 36.6% devices down from from 37.8% last month. Jelly Bean (4.1/4.2/4.3) adoption also reduced to 26.9% from 29%, and Ice Cream Sandwich at 2.9% from 3.3%. Gingerbread and Froyo did not see any major change from last month and stand at 3.4% and 0.2% respectively.