The new Android L is far beyond just mobiles phones and tablets it powers your watch, your TV and even your car. The songs, photos, apps, and even recent searches from one of your Android devices can be immediately enjoyed across all of your Android devices. With Lollipop, your tablet shows your inbox alongside the message you have open, while your watch shows new emails as they arrive. For fewer worries and disruptions, you can adjust your settings so only certain people and notifications get through. You can directly respond to important stuff from your lockscreen. Power for the long haul with a battery saver feature that extends your device by up to 90 minutes. And now it's easier to manage your power usage - see the estimated time left before you need to charge, and when you're charging, approximately how much time until it's topped up and ready to go. With the added security you can share your device securely with guest user mode. Or create multiple user accounts to enable friends to log in on your device. In either case, no one will be able to access any of your stuff. And you can use Android Smart Lock to secure your phone or tablet by pairing it with a trusted device like your wearable or even your car.
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Material Design
A bold, colorful, and responsive UI
design for consistent, intuitive experiences across all your devices
o Responsive,
natural motion, realistic lighting and shadows, and familiar visual elements
make it easier to navigate your device
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Vivid new colors, typography, and edge-to-edge imagery
help to focus your attention
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Notifications
New ways to control when and how you
receive messages - only get interrupted when you want to be
o View
and respond to messages directly from your lock screen. Includes the ability to
hide sensitive content for these notifications
o For
fewer disruptions, turn on Priority mode via your device’s volume button so
only certain people and notifications get through. Or schedule recurring
downtime like 10pm to 8am when only Priority notifications can get through
o With
Lollipop, incoming phone calls won’t interrupt what you’re watching or playing.
You can choose to answer the call or just keep doing what you’re doing
o Control
the notifications triggered by your apps; hide sensitive content and prioritize
or turn off the app’s notifications entirely
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More intelligent ranking of notifications based on who
they’re from and the type of communication. See all your notifications in one
place by tapping the top of the screen
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Battery
Power for the long haul
o A
battery saver feature which extends device use by up to 90 mins
o Estimated
time left to fully charge is displayed when your device is plugged in
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Estimated time left on your device before you need to
charge again can now be found in battery settings
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Security
Keep your stuff safe and sound
o New
devices come with encryption automatically turned on to help protect data on
lost or stolen devices
o SELinux
enforcing for all applications means even better protection against
vulnerabilities and malware
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Use Android Smart Lock to secure your phone or tablet by
pairing it with a trusted device like your wearable or even your car
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Device Sharing
More flexible sharing with family
and friends
o Multiple
users for phones. If you forget your phone, you still can call any of your
friends (or access any of your messages, photos etc.) by simply logging into
another Android phone running Lollipop. Also perfect for families who want to
share a phone, but not their stuff
o Guest
user for phones and tablets means you can lend your device and not your stuff
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Screen pinning: pin your screen so another user can access
just that content without messing with your other stuff
· New Quick Settings
Get to the most frequently used settings
with just two swipes down from the top of the screen
o New
handy controls like flashlight, hotspot, screen rotation and cast screen
controls
o Easier
on/off toggles for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and location
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Manually adjust your brightness for certain conditions.
Then, adaptive brightness will kick in based on ambient lighting
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Connectivity
A better internet connection everywhere
and more powerful Bluetooth low energy capabilities
o Improved
network handoffs resulting in limited interruption in connectivity. For
example, continue your video chat or VoIP calls without interruption as you
leave the house and switch from your home Wi-Fi back to cellular
o Improved
network selection logic so that your device connects only if there is a
verified internet connection on Wi-Fi
o Power-efficient
scanning for nearby Bluetooth low energy (“BLE”) devices like wearables or
beacons
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New BLE peripheral mode
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Runtime and Performance
A faster, smoother and more powerful
computing experience
o ART,
an entirely new Android runtime, improves application performance and
responsiveness
§ Up
to 4x performance improvements
§ Smoother
UI for complex, visually rich applications
§ Compacting
backgrounded apps and services so you can do more at once
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Support for 64 bit devices, like the Nexus 9, brings
desktop class CPUs to Android
§ Support
for 64-bit SoCs using ARM, x86, and MIPS-based cores
§ Shipping
64-bit native apps like Chrome, Gmail, Calendar, Google Play Music, and more
§ Pure
Java language apps run as 64-bit apps automatically
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Media
Bolder graphics and improved audio,
video, and camera capabilities
o Lower
latency audio input ensuring that music and communication applications that
have strict delay requirements provide an amazing realtime experience
o Multi-channel
audio stream mixing means professional audio applications can now mix up to
eight channels including 5.1 and 7.1 channels
o USB
Audio support means you can plug USB microphones, speakers, and a myriad of
other USB audio devices like amplifiers and mixers into your Android device
o OpenGL
ES 3.1 and Android extension pack brings Android to the forefront of mobile
graphics putting it on par with desktop and console class performance
o A
range of new professional photography features for Android Lollipop that let
you
§ Capture
full resolution frames around 30 fps
§ Support
raw formats like YUV and Bayer RAW
§ Control
capture settings for the sensor, lens, and flash per individual frame
§ Capture
metadata like noise models and optical information
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State of the art video technology with support for HEVC to
allow for UHD 4K video playback, tunneled video for high quality video playback
on Android TV and improved HLS support for streaming
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OK Google
Easy access to information and
performing tasks
o Even
if your screen is off, you can say "OK Google" on devices with
digital signal processing support such as Nexus 6 and Nexus 9
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Talk to Google on the go to get quick answers, send a
text, get directions and more
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Android TV
Support for living room devices
o User
interface adapted for the living room
o Less
browsing, more watching with personalized recommendations for content like
movies and TV shows
o Voice
search for Google Play, YouTube and supported apps so you can just say what you
want to see
o Console-style
Android gaming on your TV with a gamepad
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Cast your favorite entertainment apps to your big screen
with Google Cast support for Android TV devices
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Accessibility
Enhanced low vision and color
blind capabilities
o Boost
text contrast or invert colors to improve legibility
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Adjust display to improve color differentiation
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Now in 68+ languages
15 new additions
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Basque, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese (Hong Kong), Galician,
Icelandic, Kannada, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Sinhala,
Tamil, Telugu
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Device set up
Get up and running in no-time
o Tap
& go: instant set up of your new Android phone or tablet by simply tapping
it to your old one (requires NFC)
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Whenever you get a new Android phone or tablet, you can
bring over your apps from Google Play automatically from any of your old
Android devices
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And a whole lot more
o Tap
& pay: easily manage multiple payment apps by quickly switching between
them
o Print
preview and page range support
o Revamped
display for battery, Bluetooth, data usage, and Wi-Fi settings and new search
functionality in settings
o New
device level feedback for Nexus devices in Settings > about phone > send
feedback
o Easier
sharing with
§ Improved
ranking of your options within the share menu
§ Android
Beam: lets you share a file with someone nearby by gently tapping the two
devices together
o Where
supported by the hardware, your device will wake up as soon as you pick it up
or tap the screen twice
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Improved hardware keyboard accessory support including
support for multilingual, emoji input, search key, and improved app and system
key chords
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