Check Out Android Lollipop And Its Featured App

Android 5.0 brings Material design to Android and gives you an expanded UI toolkit for integrating the new design patterns easily in your apps. Material design is an interactive design guide across platforms and devices.

Advantages:

• New 3D views let you set a z-level to raise elements off of the view hierarchy and cast realtime shadows, even as they move.

• Built-in activity transitions take the user seamlessly from one state to another with beautiful, animated motion.

• Ripple animations are available for buttons, checkboxes, and other touch controls in your app.

• You can also define vector drawables in XML and animate them in a variety of ways. Vector drawables scale without losing definition, so they are perfect for single-color in-app icons.

• A new system-managed processing thread called RenderThread keeps animations smooth even when there are delays in the main UI thread.

Performance Bonus:

• Android Lollipop is getting famed as it delivers faster, powerful and smoother experience over computing.

• An add-on feature i.e. ART runtime helps to amend the apps performance and responsiveness. ART runtime supports interpreted code, ahead-of-time (AOT), just-in-time (JIT).

• Android 5.0 offers improved A/V sync.

Notification:

• Have a visible and accessible notification via Android Lollipop. The notifications are configurable. The user have option to make varying notification available on the lock screen as well. User might elect as per priority.

• Now, Incoming calls are referred as Key notifications alerts appears in a heads-up notification.

• Addition features including action button have been amended in OS 5.

Support Big Screen

Whether its application, game controls or any interactions, with the help of Android TV explore big screen experience. The TIF (TV Input Framework) manages the video streams of the TV apps  from varied input sources. The android TIF brings together varied TV input sources to a single user interface. By this process, content gets more accessible on TV devices, allowing users to browse, view and enjoy content.

Featured Apps:

• With Android 5.0, new APIs are introduced which helps you to enrich the applications by allowing concurrent multitasking operations.

• Provide users with instant access to more of your content or services with the help of concurrent documents.

• Android 5.0 has new multi-networking features for advanced connectivity.

• Support for Khronos OpenGL ES 3.1 gives new dimension to the graphics.

• Android 5.0 also introduces the Android Extension Pack(AEP), a set of OpenGL ES extensions.

• Lollipop offers powerful audio with new low-latency audio input, Multi-channel audio stream mixing. The apps have text-to-speech synthesis control and can expose their media content and browse media content from other apps.

• The new camera APIs enhances the capabilities and properties of each frame. Multimedia tunneling support gives notable ultra high definition experience and also allows to play compressed media content.

• Android 5.0 lets you add screen capturing and screen sharing capabilities to your app.

• Added Android 5.0 sensor like tilt detector and interaction composite sensors improves activity recognition and detect special interactions respectively.

• Support for Chromium WebView, add support for WebRTC, Web Audio, and WebGL and all the Web Components.

• New job scheduling APIs allow you optimize battery life by deferring jobs for the system to run at a later time .