Shared precisely holders Nexus Android 5.0 Lollipop is probably the most awaited update of the green robot in history. Google in the smart way to build tension before sharing system for older devices delaying the launch of the next days. So far in the editorial Spider’s Web full version of “lollipop” We could test a new tablet in the portfolio company from Mountain View, ie Nexus 9 manufactured by HTC.
Google Nexus 9 guests since last Friday in our editorial. First impressions on this device already shared Paul February. Sam picked up its equipment on Sunday and since then I check how the latest Android 5.0 Lollipop exercised in practice.
After these few days, I have to comment on the new version of the software.
Even before the release of Android 5.0 Lollipop new system I described Google as “having the potential to become the first complete distribution of the green robot. ” Lollipop not only looks modern, but looking at the layout of interface elements and introduced these features can be seen several years of experience in the design of Google mobile systems.
What else but the promises of developers and other members of the company’s Mountain View (which depends on how best selling Android devices), and another system in practice. Preview editions type can forgive a lot, but the first stable version of Android 5.0 Lollipop tried to judge harshly, without any leniency.
Google gave itself in the end many months of time to remove the Tourneo and fine-tune the details.
The new Android 5.0 Lollipop is no surprise. Virtually all of his learned even before the official release. Creators cards unveiled in June this year at the conference Google I / O. Was made available to even the development version intended for developers in theory you could test all volunteers.
“lollipop” in the Preview version I had the opportunity to read soon after the release of the developer edition, but did not use it every day. I have an aversion to the test version of the software, especially at a time when even a marked 1.0 often sold to customers with a mass of errors. I decided to get started with Android 5.0 Lollipop only version intended for a mass audience.
Android 1.0?
The last few releases of Android wnosiło just cosmetic changes. The interface is not lived to see more updates from version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and at first glance it is difficult to distinguish from each other “ice sandwich”, three successive editions of Jelly Bean and KitKat. Now it is different, and the new Android is the first big change in visual terms.
So far, the appearance of Android in many places left a lot to be desired. In Androidze 5.0 Lollipop cut a thick line from the past. Introduced based on the layer, color Interface Material Design, which replaced the worn-out Holo. This can be compared to what Apple has done a year ago, providing iOS 7. Google starts (seemingly) fresh.
The end of the gray-blue, futuristic styling.
The interface of previous versions of Android was very austere, almost” transparent “. Do not distract from the content of your eyesight. Most of the application components blended into the background; fore faced content – photos, videos, text. Now it’s different, and applications can be determined even as … flashy. The Google system programs provided navigational beams that have bright colors, such as blue and red (in a very vivid shade).
There are also smooth and beautiful animation. They look consistent, but also lasts a long time and attract attention – dragging the list at the end causes the appearance of a nice gray animation, which has a very low coefficient of transparency and occupies a lot of space on the screen. After a long time you may get bored. I would prefer less showy, more discreet operating system.
Changes lived to see the layout of the contents displayed.
System applications use very often with tiled system, which Google began to gradually introduce their services from Google Now. Now redesigned all system applications that instead of opening another window displays a new “layer”. Navigation is at first sight much more intuitive than a ponytail.
also disappeared version tablet version of Lollipop accretions of smaller screens and such. Settings lived to see several columns instead of one long list. It can be seen that the device with screen size exceeding seven inches are for Google as important as smartphones – although still by key developers ignoring Android tablets, and even the infamous example is Facebook.
Desktops, icons and widgets
What I would not go to change it-yourself way to display the shortcut to the application. Still heart frontend Google in the mobile system are desktops where you can place apps and widgets. By default, when you run the Nexus 9 in the main of them are located Shortcuts to Google services pinned to the dock and buried in folders. Desktop on the left is in turn a full-screen widget to Google Now.
Desktop lived to see the visual refresh, but it works basically the same as the last few years. Over the Dock is a shortcut to a list of all installed applications, which develops in the form of covering all the windows and is no longer a separate screen. It is more reasonable rozwiazązanie than ever before.
The most important novelty is altered notice.
Notification is one of the most important modern operating system for smartphones, which is used in basically all the time. Google has once again updated the item and I can not but applaud the final effect. Notifications on the desktop are drawn from the bar in a list and there is no longer a separate quick settings panel. It appears the tapnięciu the icon in the upper right corner of the notification. It looks much neater than a ponytail, but it is unfortunately less functional.
It is no longer such. Hold the Wi-Fi icon and go to directly to the network settings and the icon is the only antenna switch. It is difficult to say how they are selected more items and you can not edit the list. Google wants to guess, with what exactly you want to use. This does not work too well and looking for such decisions’m apprehensive about how services giant will present in the future – in the end from the other services Google Now they want to be Smart . This is Google Inbox and a new calendar and not only me do not like this direction.
A much better idea was, however, then pull notifications on the lock screen.
When you wake the tablet (or double-click the screen bursts) can be seen at once that the applications are demanding attention. In the notification, you can react immediately after unlocking the equipment or remove them one simple gesture shift to the side. This is topped with a liquid, nice animations. Notification marked as read and disappears from the bottom of entering a new, if you missed the list is longer than the height of the screen.
This of course raises concerns about privacy. The response to a notification straight from the lock screen is certainly a big convenience, but not everyone may wish to SMS from the bank and personal messages from the communicator can read anyone who will take the tablet to hand. Fortunately, Google has added the option to disable the display of notifications from the application on the lock screen. You can unearth this setting in the options or hold down your finger on the notification of the application you want to hide for the future.
This is just the beginning of changes
New Android introduces a much more improvements that can discover and appreciate the long-term contact with the device. Much to the taste made my copy mode “Do Not Disturb” introduced in iPhones and iPads for Apple. The Android by pressing the volume button a small menu appears where you can choose which notifications will turn back his head, and that will be muted. You can turn off all of them, leave only part of the major or accept everything as it flies.
In addition, introduced guest mode that will give the device with Android 5.0 Lollipop another person without fear that selects the private data. After the session with the device all the data left by a person enjoying a moment with our device will be deleted. Applications can also protect your account from accidental closing pinning them in the list of recently opened programs by giving the device eg. The child to pograło in Angry Birds.
Better uses a list of recently opened programs.
When you press the button, the most recently opened applications (marked square) is shown a stack of thumbnails of recently opened applications. This type of solution is used for years, but now one application may occur several times in the list and thumbnail will continue to the next step. A new tab appears, eg. When you start writing a message in Gmail.
Interestingly, it should work the same for cards in Chrome … but for some strange reason the Android 5.0 Lollipop on tablets is not supported. Among other changes, mention may be enabled to use various email accounts in Gmail application, the restoration of a separate program to SMS
Sorry, still it is not a perfect system.
Google already have copied a number of solutions from the competition, but I still miss some features, such as making a backup application data. It is true that the configuration could select one of the “backup” server giant collected from used my smartphone, but the applications have to log in again, as in the ponytail and several versions before it.
Still, the interface is a lot of errors. You see, unfortunately, it is not a system designed entirely from scratch. Despite many months of work ran out of time to refine the details, Tourneo and inconsistencies are not visible at first glance – the appearance of the copy menu content, the system lists the various effects just looking buttons. I also can not understand why the black navigation bar is still at the bottom in landscape mode and takes valuable pixels height of the interface.
The new software for smartphones and tablets from Google looks really great and I can not deny him that. Such a system was needed refreshment from Mountain View, and Android 5.0 Lollipop certainly is the best green robot that appeared so far. The vastness of the new features from the beginning probably overwhelm many users, but the lion’s share of them are thoughtful extras useful in daily activities.
I wonder just how much massacre “lollipop” creator overlays …
No comments:
Post a Comment