Lollipop changed the world: Five things Android 5.0 will change

On October 15th, Pacific Time, Google officially launched the Android 5.0 Lollipop system. As the new version with the biggest changes in Android history, "Lollipop" brings us many new functions and features.

On October 23, Google once again released a brief notification of the Android 5.0 SDK to application developers. The notification showed that Android 5.0 will officially begin to be pushed to consumer devices on November 3 this year. The Wi-Fi versions of the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets will be the first to receive the Android 5.0 OTA upgrade.

From Android L to "Lollipop", Android 5.0 not only brings new experiences and new devices, but also has subversive significance for the entire Android ecosystem.

Android is more like Android

Although the Android system has a history of more than 6 years, whether it is Google itself or other OEM manufacturers, the Android system always seems to play the role of an imitator. The advent of Apple's iOS 7 system has brought a wave of flattening in the entire industry, so that even now, there are still many Android devices that continue to pay tribute to Apple in system design.

Starting from version 5.0, the Android system will use a new Material Design language, which will make Android more Android-like, and the native system will have more refined color matching and animation effects. For other third-party systems, we have seen the addition of new design elements on newer Android devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Note4. Android 5.0 will completely change people's inherent impression that the Android system itself lacks a sense of design.

Improve equipment performance

Although Apple, which is good at "stacking hardware", never talks about parameters, Android has always been a paradise for hardware enthusiasts to "run scores". Android 5.0 also adopts a new optimization design to improve device performance.

Android 5.0 finally made Android devices "64-bit" after lagging behind iOS for a year. Even though most users don't know what 64-bit can improve, and the only real 64-bit Android device is the Nexus 9 which has not yet been launched, this at least gives Android a better foundation and keeps up with others in terms of parameters.

In addition, Android 5.0 introduced a better virtual machine mechanism. The selectable ART mode on Android 4.4 KitKat became the default option in Lollipop. This has made the operating efficiency of the virtual machine-based Android system almost the same as that of the non-virtual machine Apple iOS system, and will also allow Android devices to completely bid farewell to the dilemma of "high scores but low performance".

The rise of Android tablets

The first devices to receive the Android 5.0 OTA update are the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets. These two devices are not the newest in Google's Nexus "own son" series, nor are they the most powerful, but they are the first to get the "Lollipop". In a way, this also reflects Google's emphasis on tablet devices.

In fact, as early as November 2013, Google opened a tablet area in the Play Store, and added tablet optimization projects to the SDK earlier. However, Android tablets are far behind iPads, and the tablet area in the Play Store is more like a symbolic existence.

The advent of Android 5.0 will more effectively stimulate the development of Android tablet devices. The new experience of "Lollipop" and 64-bit system will first appear on tablet devices, which is worth looking forward to.

Solving the fragmentation problem

Google has been working to solve the fragmentation problem of Android devices, and this problem may be effectively improved after Android 5.0.

First of all, the completely revamped new system from the inside out will give users and device manufacturers sufficient motivation to upgrade. The virtual buttons of native Android, which have always been criticized, are no longer so unacceptable after Android 4.4, and more and more devices are beginning to accept the operating logic set by Google.

In addition, Google itself is also paying more attention to low-end entry-level smart terminal products. The Android One project, which was born together with Android L, has now found a number of powerful partners. These measures will be conducive to the comprehensive popularization of the Android 5.0 system on different positioning devices.

One system connects the entire ecosystem

Finally, the most important significance of Android 5.0 is that one system has opened up the entire Android ecosystem. Among the new Neuxs products launched by Google this year, there is a TV box product for the Android TV platform.

At the Google I/O Developer Conference in June this year, we saw that Android will also be oriented towards the operation of more forms of smart products such as smart homes, wearable products, and cars in the future. Of course, the foundation of all this is Android 5.0.

Under the same system framework, we have reason to believe that with "Lollipop" as the starting point, Android will not only be able to do better in the future, but also do more.

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