New Delhi: Google has unveiled its revamped Android software. The latest software is called "Lollipop (Android 5.0)" in keeping with Google's tradition of naming its Android upgrades after treats.
According to Google, Android Lollipop "is built for the multi-screen world" and would also give developers the ability create apps for screens of all sizes - from a small smartwhatch to a large television.
The Android Lollipop release includes a number of new features. Highlights:
1. Material Design: It is one of the highlights of the new Android OS that would create a consistent experience across all your devices. Offering a responsive UI design, Android 5.0 Lollipop "is designed to be flexible, to work on all your devices and to be customised for you the way you see fit," said Google vice president Sundar Pichai, who heads the Android operations. The songs, photos, apps, and even recent searches from one of your Android devices can be immediately enjoyed across all of your Android devices.
2. Notifications: The notificiations feature in Android Lollip offers new ways to control when and how you receive messages - only get interrupted when you want to be. In Android 5.0, users can view and respond to messages directly from the lock screen. Users can also includes the ability to hide sensitive content for these notifications. Priority mode can be turned on via their device's volume button so only certain people and notifications get through. 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. It is clamed to have more intelligent ranking of notifications based on who they are from.
3. Battery: A battery saver feature in Android Lollipop is claimed to extend device use by up to 90 minutes. It also displays the estimated time left to fully charge when your device is plugged in. Also, the estimated time left on your device before you need to charge again can now be found in battery settings.
4. Security: Android Lollipop devices will come with encryption automatically turned on to help protect data on lost or stolen devices.
5. Device Sharing: This is one of the key features in Android Lollipop. Multiple users for a single phone is now possible. If you forget your phone, you still can call any of your friends (or access any of your messages and photos) by simply logging into another Android phone running Lollipop. The Guest user feature for phones and tablets means you can lend your device and not your stuff. Also you can screen your pin so another user can access just that content without messing with your other stuff.
6. New Quick Settings: The Quick Settings will now have handy controls like flashlight, hotspot, screen rotation and cast screen controls, and easier on/off toggles for WiFi, Bluetooth, and location
7. Runtime and Performance: Support for 64 bit devices, like the Nexus 9, brings desktop class CPUs to Android
8. Media: USB Audio support lets users plug USB microphones, speakers, and a myriad of other USB audio devices like amplifiers and mixers into their Android device.
9. OK Google: 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
10. Now in 68+ languages: With Android Lollipop comes support for 15 other lanugauges including Basque, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese (Hong Kong), Galician, Icelandic, Kannada, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu.
Android 5.0 Lollipop, which comes on Nexus 6, Nexus 9 and Nexus Player, will also be available on Nexus 4, 5, 7, 10 and Google Play edition devices in the coming weeks.
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