Android 5.0 Lollipop (API 21-22)

Android 5.0 Lollipop (API 21-22)

Version 5.0
Release date November 12, 2014

Features

• Android Runtime (ART) with ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation and improved garbage collection (GC), replacing Dalvik that combines bytecode
• interpretation with trace-based just-in-time (JIT) compilation
• Support for 64-bit CPUs
• OpenGL ES 3.1 and Android Extension Pack (AEP) on supported GPU configurations
• Recent activities screen with tasks instead of applications, up to a configured maximum of tasks per application
• Vector drawables, which scale without losing definition
• Support for print previews
• Material design, bringing a restyled user interface
• Refreshed lock screen, no longer supporting widgets
• Refreshed notification tray and quick settings pull-down
• Project Volta, for battery life improvements
• Searches can be performed within the system settings for quicker access to particular settings
• Lock screen provides shortcuts to application and notification settings
• Guest logins and multiple user accounts are available on more devices, such as phones.
• Audio input and output through USB devices
• Third-party applications regain the ability to read and modify data located anywhere on external storage, such as on SD cards.
• Pinning of an application’s screen for restricted user activity.
• Recently used applications are remembered even after restarting the device.
• WebViews receive updates independently through Google Play for security reasons, instead of relying on system-wide vendor updates
• Addition of 15 new languages: Basque, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese (Hong Kong), Galician, Icelandic, Kannada, Kyrgyz, Macedonian,
• Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Sinhala, Tamil and Telugu
• Tap and Go allows users to quickly migrate to a new Android device, using NFC and Bluetooth to transfer Google Account details,
• configuration settings, user data and installed applications
• A flashlight-style application is included, working on supported devices with a camera flash.
• User-customizable priorities for application notifications.
• Smart lock feature
• SELinux in enforcing mode for all domains
• Updated emoji
• Improved accessibility support (e.g. switch access support)
• Block-based over-the-air (OTA) updates for new devices
• Changes how alarms wake the CPU, and how alarms compete for system resources.
• Improvements and bug-fixes to the Overview screen
• Ability to join Wi-Fi networks and control paired Bluetooth devices from quick settings
• Official support for multiple SIM cards
• Device protection: if a device is lost or stolen it will remain locked until the owner signs into their Google account, even if the device is reset to
• factory settings.
• High-definition voice calls, available between compatible 4G LTE devices running Android 5.1
• Improvements to the notification priority system, to more closely replicate the silent mode that was removed in Android 5.0.