Material has physical surfaces and edges. Designer Matías Duarte explained that "unlike real paper, our digital material can expand and reform intelligently. Expanding upon the " card" motifs first seen in Google Now, it is a design with increased use of grid-based layouts, responsive animations and transitions, padding, and depth effects such as lighting and shadows. Part of the presentation was dedicated to a new cross-platform design language referred to as "material design".
Alongside Lollipop, the presentation focused on a number of new Android-oriented platforms and technologies, including Android TV, in-car platform Android Auto, wearable computing platform Android Wear, and health tracking platform Google Fit. Android 5.0 was first unveiled under the codename "Android L" on Jduring a keynote presentation at the Google I/O developers' conference. The release was internally codenamed " Lemon Meringue Pie". Īs of August 2021, 1.21% of Android devices run Lollipop 5.0 (API 21), and 2.71% run Lollipop 5.1 (API 22), with a combined 3.92% of usage share. Google also made internal changes to the platform, with the Android Runtime (ART) officially replacing Dalvik for improved application performance, and with changes intended to improve and optimize battery usage.Īndroid Lollipop was succeeded by Android Marshmallow, which was released in October 2015. Other changes include improvements to the notifications, which can be accessed from the lockscreen and displayed within applications as top-of-the-screen banners. One of the most prominent changes in the Lollipop release is a redesigned user interface built around a design language known as Material Design, which was made to retain a paper-like feel to the interface.
It is the fifth major update and the twelfth version of Android. Its source code was made available on November 3, 2014. Unveiled on Jat the Google I/O 2014 conference, it became available through official over-the-air (OTA) updates on November 12, 2014, for select devices that run distributions of Android serviced by Google (such as Nexus and Google Play edition devices). Play the music in your phone (after Bluetooth paring)ĩ.Android Lollipop home screen with some stock Google appsĥ.1.1_r38 (LMY49M) / July 5, 2016 5 years ago ( ) Īndroid Lollipop ( codenamed Android L during development) is the fifth major version of the Android mobile operating system developed by Google and the 12th version of Android, spanning versions between 5.0 and 5.1.1.
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