All about Lollipop, Android - 5.0
Post by: bond
Google has just released Android L or its official title, Android Lollipop.
Lets talk about Android Lollipop. The biggest visible change is Material Design, the brand new design and behaviour language that spans all of Android's screens - from watch to car. Notifications have been significantly overhauled, and Lollipop will give you more control over what you see and when. There's also a lot of work done on battery usage, and Google promises you should get 90 minutes more battery life with the battery saver feature.
Its got radical new design, 5000 new APIs, has been available as a developer preview for a while, and its going beyond the mobile form factor. Android 5.0 will be contextually aware of its surroundings, plus voice going to me a major input source.
As fa as security goes, and as we touched upon recently, all new devices will come with encryption turned on by default, making it harder for third parties to see what's on your device if it get stolen or impounded. Lollipop will also be the first Android release to swap out Dalvik in favour of ART, and it brings support for 64bit.
Well, this build is for Nexus devices only
