Google Reveals Android Lollipop – Find Out What’s in Store For You - Are you an Android Application Development fan? Do you love to have insight on every new update that comes to the market? Then, you’ll definitely be aware of the Google’s announcement about bringing its new release, that is, Android Lollipop v5.0 – a new version of the Android OS. In case, you still aren’t aware about the latest release, just run through the post to get detailed view on it.
Introducing Android Lollipop
Last week at Google I/O developer’s conference, the technology giant unveiled a preview version of its mobile operating system, Android, called Android Lollipop. Successor to Android KitKat, Android Lollipop is already available for Google’s Nexus devices. The new release will bring a series of design changes, as Google has given a face-lift to the user interface across desktop and mobile devices, promising to provide a more consistent and clean unified design.
Other than design, Android Lollipop will be introducing Google’s Now cards concept to Android applications and will also see a new UI (user interface) scheme.
Key Features of Android Lollipop
Let’s have a more detailed view on the key features of Google’s latest release – Android Lollipop.
Material Design
The major overhaul that Google Android Lollipop rather than its reliable Android Application Development will bring is the “material design” – which is aimed to adjust to any screen sizes by unifying desktop, mobile devices, web and wearable devices.
With material design Google’s is looking at providing a clean and unified design along several other goodies – such as drop shadow and animations. Material design will cover how the interface will appear and behave from Android to web. Google is utilizing material design to connect multiple screens glued with colors, iconography, and more.
What’s more?
The transition effects, drop shadows and Z-depth will help make the Android screen livelier than ever before. The material design when completed will give Android devices a blend of what Apple has done with its design.
Multitasking
The multitasking menu has been refined with the advent of Android L. And now the menu appears as a 3D-like rolling window or a stack of cards. Besides, compared to the existing tab user interface on Google Chrome for Android devices, the recent apps for Android Lollipop are shown to have more content in display – in a much larger size. As a matter of fact, when Android Lollipop will launch officially, the separate Chrome tabs may also appear similar to multitasking cards. However, this will depend on the context in which the tabs were produced, leading to a blend of the web and native apps.
Power Saving Mode
Android devices battery life has been a major concern for everyone, and to resolve the problem Google introduces “Battery Saver mode” and a new “Battery Historian UI”. That’s true! The Battery Saver mode works just like Samsung’s S5 ultra power saving mode, and shuts down background as well screen processes in order to save battery.
Switch From Dalvik to ART – New Runtime
Another change that you’ll see is the change in Android’s runtime and associated issues can be resolved for which you must Hire Android App Developer. If you own an Android device then you’ll be seemingly using the Dalvik runtime up till now, but the Android Lollipop 5.0 will run on the new 64-bit ART runtime. The new runtime is believed to give a boost to your device performance. The best thing is that developers won’t have to fiddle with the code so as to make the existing Dalvik runtime to be ART-compatible.
What Else?
The final Android Lollipop release will take place around autumn. Though, Nexus devices have got access to the Android Lollipop release, but when you’ll get the release available for non-Nexus devices still remains a big question. Although, it’s not confirmed but it is believed that HTC will soon roll out Android Lollipop to HTC One flagships M8 and M7.
Final Thought
Well, I’m a big fan of Android OS and find Android’s Lollipop 5.0 features to be really exciting and believe that they will prove equally exciting for you too. But that’s my take on Google’s new release, and time will tell whether it will really turn out to be a success or not. So, I’ll recommend you to clearly read all the above discussed key aspects that will help you understand what the new Google release will have in store for you!
