{"id":9945,"date":"2014-11-12T06:25:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=9945"},"modified":"2014-11-10T12:30:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T20:30:53","slug":"age-of-geeks-new-android-comes-to-life-with-fresh-look-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/11\/12\/age-of-geeks-new-android-comes-to-life-with-fresh-look-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of Geeks<\/em>: New Android comes to life with fresh look, features"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s arrived early: we\u2019ve already got a look at Android L before it\u2019s widely available for consumers. Google wants to attract the developers, and that\u2019s one way to do it.<\/p>\n

Android L, also known as \u201cLollipop,\u201d is here: the latest Nexus devices ship with this version of Android installed. According to sources at androidpolice.com, the update has been delayed for Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 devices due to some \u201coutstanding\u201d bugs, and users are likely to get the update sometime in November.<\/p>\n

This new update is being marketed as the biggest Android update since its baby days. There are a lot of new features, big visual changes, and clever tweaks added to Google\u2019s latest refresh.<\/p>\n

Here are a few things in this update which we will see on our lovely phones soon enough.<\/p>\n

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Each issue, Age of Geeks<\/em> looks at what\u2019s new in the tech world (file photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New material design look<\/b><\/p>\n

Android L will arrive in a pure vanilla form to all the Nexus and Google edition devices. Google calls the new changes to the Android UI its \u201cmaterial design\u201d approach, one that takes the Google Now cards system and adds depth, shadows, and more to layouts across the system, with app elements able to slide into and on top of each other. New onscreen software button icons are in there, too, with a triangle replacing the back arrow, a circle for the home function, and a simple square for accessing the \u201crecent apps\u201d multitasking menu.<\/p>\n

Project Volta<\/b><\/p>\n

Google\u2019s Android team has finally addressed the cries of every Android user who claims that the \u201cProject Volta\u201d modifications to the code may increase battery life. When running Android L, Google suggests a user might see up to 90 minutes of extra uptime on the Nexus 5, thanks to Volta and more battery\/power management tools, which is significant given that particular phone\u2019s rather dismal battery life.<\/p>\n

Separate home and work profiles<\/b><\/p>\n

This feature allows users to have multiple app instances on one device, separating work app data from home app data. As well, Samsung\u2019s highly functional Knox workplace security tool is coming to Android L, with Samsung\u2019s tools getting integrated into Google\u2019s core code.<\/p>\n

Besides these, there are several other exciting features coming in this new update, such as ART, 64-bit support, enhanced, card-like web search, and new transitions and animations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s arrived early: we\u2019ve already got a look at Android L before it\u2019s widely available for consumers. Google wants to attract the developers, and that\u2019s one way to do it. Android L, also known as \u201cLollipop,\u201d is here: the latest Nexus devices ship with this version of Android installed. According to sources at androidpolice.com, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-november-12-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9946,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions\/9946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}