Android L [Official] Android 5.0 Lollipop Announced

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Google has announced the release of Android 5.0 Lollipop - the latest version of the world’s most popular mobile platform. Google is throwing in their latest OS with their new debutants: the Nexus 6 smartphone, Nexus 9 tablet and the Nexus Player streaming device. For those of you with the Nexus 4, 5, 7, 10 and Google Play Edition devices, Google will be reaching out to you in the coming weeks!

The OS had been in the developer preview grounds for a good period before this, and Google has finally ironed out all the quirks it gathered during this testing phase. If you haven’t been living under a rock, you would know that – Android L as it was called till a few weeks back, features Google’s new Material Design language, which offers some notable visual enhancements.

The new Material Design offers a cleaner design with flatter icons, a bolder color palette, coupled with fluid physics-based animations offering a smoother and more consistent user experience on the Android platform as well as apps.

However, Android 5.0 Lollipop is not just eye candy, and sports some major changes under the hood as well. The Android OS is the first version of the OS which has been optimized for 64-bit architecture. This should finally allow hardware manufacturers to jump onto the 64-bit Android smartphones and tablets bandwagon.

The latest OS from Google also comes with a new lock screen with notifications that allows you to take actions on them: such as deleting an email. A new battery saver mode will give you 90 minutes of extra time between charges, but this may vary from device to device, especially slightly older devices. There’s plenty more, but as such there are features taken from the various hardware manufacturers own implementations. Seems like Google wants to make these needed implementations part of the core Android experience.

The complete set of Android 5.0 Lollipop features are as follows:

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