Introduction to the next-generation Android operating system

Earlier today, Google released the new Android operating system Android L. What surprised me very much was the change in naming rules. Previously, many people speculated that they would be called Android5.0 and name a dessert. Because the Android operating system has released so many official versions, it has always been named after desserts. Now I use an L directly, which is very different from the previous style and is hard to understand. However, L is very easy to remember and easy to access.

I took a look at the new features of the officially announced Android L, mainly including the following:

A New UI Design

Create a consistent experience internal SS mobile and the webMaterial design, The new Google-wide standard.

A new UI design scheme is adopted to provide users with a consistent experience between mobile phones and webpages. As for the material design mentioned here, we are not familiar with it. After all, we have never engaged in the UI. Since the introduction is a new Google-wide standard, it is estimated that this standard will be used for uidesign for quite a while.

From the current UI image, it is more beautiful than before.

A New Runtime

Test your apps and get them readyART(ANdroidRUnTIme), the default runtime in the next release.

A new runtime ART is used. In fact, it cannot be said that it is new. In Android4.4, ART has already officially appeared, but it is not the default option. The default option is still dalvik. I want to go over it at that time. In Android L, ART will be used as the default runtime. It can greatly speed up the running of the APK, but the disadvantage is that the occupied space will be larger. Because the real-time compilation of dalvik was changed to the advance compilation of ART. In my previous blog:

Changes to the compilation tool chain in Android ---- increase in LLVM size

In detail. Google is also doing this to completely solve the Android running speed problem. After all, dalvik is too old to meet its current needs.

Enhanced Communications

Get control over where configurications appear, how they look, and how they sync to non-handheld devices.

Enhanced the message prompting function. Here, I adjusted the display function, view effect, and how to communicate with non-handheld devices. This function solves many headaches, such as calling messages in the game, and new message notifications do not interfere with existing operations.

Increased Efficiency

Project VoltaIs our effort to make the platform energy efficient and to give you more control over resource usage.

It is mainly Volta, a project similar to power management. It can enable the power-saving mode to reduce the power consumption of apps. It also provides a detailed historical power analysis presentation. In fact, the power-saving model is already available in many manufacturers' own Android systems, but it has never been available in official Android versions.

There are several new features introduced in this article, and there are some other such features. For example, you can set the phone to be opened without a password on a certain occasion to facilitate use at home or in a trusted environment. I believe that more functions will be found after the real version is released.

Note: images are from the Internet and English content is from the Android website.