Android
Lollipop vs. Android KitKat
Android 5.0 Lollipop vs. Android KitKat: Material
Android 5.0 L vs. Android KitKat: Notifications
Android 5.0 L vs. Android KitKat: Security
Android 5.0 Lollipop vs. Android KitKat: Battery Life
Android L
is a HUGE update that sees Google taking its already mature platform several
steps further. The Big G has tightened up nearly every element of its mobile
platform, refining the look and feel of Android across the board, as well as
touching up back-end tools and protocols to make the platform even more
efficient.
Android
5.0 Lollipop has now launched officially and will be initially available on a
brand new Nexus 6 phablet and Nexus 9 tablet. Motorola will be
next to follow up with the updates and then soon we expect news from Samsung,
HTC, Sony and all the rest. HTC revealed they are planning to bring the new
update on their flagship smartphones – One M7 and One M8 – within 90 days after
the Google makes the final code available. A new report reveals when the
Taiwanese phone maker plans to bring the Android 5.0 Lollipop update for HTC
One Mini 2 and Desire 816.
Android 5.0 Lollipop vs. Android KitKat: Material
Android Lollipop is the biggest change to Android in some time, finally
bumping Google's OS up a full integer to version 5.0.
It's
packed with changes, but the most obvious improvements are visual.
Google's
been working on getting its new "Material Design" aesthetic out in
the world for months, and Lollipop is its culmination. One of Android's biggest
failings up to date - including with KitKat - has been that its design language
never felt unified, and with Material Design Google hopes to fix that.
The
aesthetic is meant to look both flat and 3D, as if you're starting at animated
paper that exists on a z-axis as well as the x and y.
Material
Design reflects this with clean, bold lines and colors that transform and alter
with fun animations. At its best it lets you sense the depth behind the
interface, even when it's at rest and appears flat.
This
extends from app icons, fonts and interfaces to simple elements like the new
navigation buttons and notification bar icons, and once you get past the
changes you'll likely agree that most things look better now.
The
changes to Android's interface with Lollipop aren't all visual, either - voice
commands with "OK Google" are more prominent now as well, and can
even be used when the screen is locked and off on some devices, and there are
massive improvements to notifications.
Android 5.0 L vs. Android KitKat: Notifications
Notifications
have been Android's strong suit since day one, and Google is making them even
better in Android Lollipop. The big change here is that they're being
integrated into the lock screen – something Google previously experimented with
when it developed lock screen widgets which allowed you to view emails and
events without actually unlocking your phone.
As well
as making notifications the first thing you see when you pick up your handset,
Google is working on making them smarter when the phone is in active use. For
example, in KitKat a call would totally interrupt whatever activity you were
involved in, be it reading a book, browsing your emails or playing a game. In
Android Lollipop, events such as these will pop up at the top of the screen, a
la Samsung’s Galaxy S5, meaning you can choose to jump to that event or ignore
it with a quick tap without leaving your current task.
Compared
to Android 4.4, notifications are going to be smarter, more intuitive and less
intrusive than before. KitKat's notifications system is decent enough, but it
was basically recycling what had come before, so it’s good to see some
out-of-the-box thinking from Google in this respect.
Android 5.0 L vs. Android KitKat: Security
Google
has made massive strides with Android when it comes to overall security, coming
up with innovations such as pattern unlocks and facial recognition. KitKat
didn't bring much new to the table in this respect, but it worked well enough.
Android Lollipop's big advance is going to be about making security more
convenient, and it will do this using two methods: Android Wear and your
current location.
In the
first case, you can use your shiny new Android smartwatch as an authentication
tool to automatically bypass your phone's passcode when it detects the watch
nearby. In the second example, you can designate safe zones – your home, for
example – where your phone will switch off your lock code. While both of these
features could potentially create a security risk, if someone steals your phone
and your smartwatch, they have access to all of your personal data, for
instance, but they will overcome the irksome issue of having to continually
unlock your device every few minutes.
Android 5.0 Lollipop vs. Android KitKat: Battery Life
Project
Butter was Google's way of making Android feel smoother and slicker, and now
the company has revealed Project Volta – a system which will provide developers
with a better means of determining what elements of their apps are draining
battery at an unnecessary rate. Because Volta will open up the battery stats to
devs, they can tinker with their code to make apps more efficient and spot
potential problem areas.
Android
Lollipop will also take a leaf out of HTC and Samsung's books by coming with a
battery saving mode by default. This will help users get as much mileage out of
each charge as possible by throttling certain functions when juice is low. Such
improvements will ensure that Android L is leaps and bounds ahead of KitKat, which
only offers basic stats on what process is gobbling up the most power.
Complete list of devices which will be
upgraded to Android L OS will be (Confirmed):
Nexus smartphones and
tablets :
Nexus 4
Nexus 5
Nexus 7
Nexus 10
Motorola smartphones:
Moto E
Moto G
Moto X
Moto G 4G
Moto G 2nd Gen
Moto X 2nd Gen
Motorola Droid Ultra
Motorola Droid Maxx
Motorola Droid Mini
Samsung smartphones and tablets:-
Samsung Galaxy S5
Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini
Samsung Galaxy S4
Samsung Galaxy S4 GPE
Samsung Galaxy Alpha
Samsung Galaxy TabPro 8.4
Samsung Galaxy TabPro 10.1
Samsung Galaxy TabPro 12.2
Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4
Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5
Samsung Galaxy A5
Samsung Galaxy A3
Samsung Galaxy Note 4
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge
Samsung Galaxy Note 3
Samsung Galaxy S3
Samsung Galaxy Note 2
Sony Xperia smartphones:-
Sony Xperia Z1
Sony Xperia Z2
Sony Xperia Z Ultra
Sony Xperia Z Ultra GPE
Sony Xperia Z1 Compact
Sony Xperia Z2 tablet
Sony Xperia Z3
Xperia Z
Xperia ZL
Xperia ZR
Xperia Tablet Z
Xperia Z1S
Xperia Z3v
Xperia Z3 Compact
Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact
HTC smartphones:-
HTC One
HTC One m7
HTC One M8
HTC One GPE
HTC One M8 GPE
HTC Desire Eye
HTC One M8 Eye
HTC One Mini
HTC One Mini 2
HTC One E8
HTC One Max
HTC Butterfly S
HTC Butterfly 2
HTC Desire 816
HTC Desire 610
LG smartphones and tablets:-
LG G2
LG G2 Mini
LG G Flex
LG G3
LG G3 Beat
LG G3 Stylus
LG G Pad 8.3
LG G Pad 8.3 GPE
LG G Pro 2
Other smartphones and tablets:-
Micromax Canvas A1 Android One Smartphone
Karbonn Sparkle V
Spice Dream Uno
Asus Zenfone 4
Asus Zenfone 4 A450CG
Asus Zenfone 5
Asus Zenfone 5 LTE
Asus Zenfone 6
Asus PadFone S
Asus PadFone Infinity 2
Xiaomi Redmi 1S
Xolo One
OnePlus One
Nvidia Shield Tablet
Huawei Ascend Mate 2.
