Introducing Android 5.0

Author: Melina Peters

For avid Android users Google got you covered. Rumors have it that a successor of Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich is expected to hit the market soon. Android 5.0 Lollipop or Lemon Meringue Pie is the new platform in the line of Google’s Android OS. There have been many expectations as with the changes that will come with the new version. From trusted sources, here are few of the features of the Android 5.0:

  1. Material design- It is bringing with it a new design language to the benefit of users as well as developers. The design will be more colorful, meaningful and playful. For 3D graphics and 3D animations, real-time shadows will be used with more layering and content. Besides, it will support new font referred to as Roboto font. The new navigation buttons will also change to take the form of square, circle and triangle.
  2. Improved notifications- Android 5 promises to make notifications better than in the previous platforms. For beginners, you can find them on the lock screen and they will be ordered according to priority. Just as in the Android 4 among others, you will be able to swipe them up and open those, which are relevant to you.
  3. New lock screen- One of the Android L redesign is the lock screen that displays your notifications. All you need is to swipe up to unlock that is if you do not have a lock pattern. However, you can swipe left to launch the camera or right to start the dialer.
  4. High multi-tasking capabilities- The new Android version, allows you to swipe off opened apps to either side and close them. It would interest you to know that the OS will display a separate card for every tab that you open. This is quite impressive for the users.
  5. New notification bar- Oh yes! It is different from what you have seen with the other Android versions. You will operate it in the same way, where swiping from the top, gives you access. Nevertheless, the layout and the color are not anything you have seen before.
  6. Battery life- The Android 5.0, is coming with a new power saver mode, Google has already affirmed it. In fact, they said that the new battery saving mode would offer Nexus 5 additional 90 minutes of power. No news could be better than this for all users. The battery section will also portray information that is more detailed.
  7. Better performance- The latest Android will perform better as it was expected since it will support 64-bit processors and ART software library with a splendid speed.

Users have been waiting for this upgrade and now that is almost to be launched, we could only hope that most people will go for the new version. With the features aforementioned, we can only look forward to the best experience for the users and developers.

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