All the 'L'ittle features of Android L
Some of them you've already heard about at the Google I/O keynote - things like the new Battery Saver mode coming with Project Volta that aims to maximize your battery life, as well as the new ART compiler with full support for 64-bit, with all the benefits of the larger registers and more addressable physical space.
Google teased all those little features of Android L in a slide, quickly showed on the screen, so to spare you the staring, we’re just listing all the new features mentioned there:
- Burst-mode camera APIs
- H.265, NDK media APIs
- TV input framework
- Low latency audio recording, audio patch-panel, improved AV sync, USB audio
- Cast-receiver hardware-assisted hot-word
- ART, 64-bit trusted execution environment
- Volta, improved battery stats, predicted time remaining, battery historian
- Battery Saver mode, time to charge, time on lock screen
- JobsScheduler, multi-network
- Bluetooth 4.1, BLE central and peripheral modes
- HFP 1.6 SAP, multi HFP
- Map Email
- OpenGL ES 3.1 and Android Extension Pack
- Personal unlocking, enterprise, lock to app apis
- Document-centric multi-tasking
- Lockscreen notifications, heads-up notifications, do not disturb
- New quick settings, phone rotation lock
- Improved game controller support
- Closed caption, color inversion, color space correction, improved text rendering
- Material theme, activity transitions, view shadows, view elevation
- RecycleView, CardView, path animations, color extractor
Which of these are you most excited about and why?
source: Android
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