Android 5 Lollipop

Android 5 Lollipop is a mobile utility designed specifically for Android device users. It not only provides a brand-new themed interface and notifications, but also includes a built-in power-saving mode to optimize battery usage and extend the lifespan of your device. Android 5 Lollipop also features a screen lock function to help users cultivate focused habits. Android 5 Lollipop will continue to be updated with more new features, so don't miss out if you're interested!

Features:

Material Design: new cleaner and more elegant interface design.

New lock screen that shows notifications from different applications.

Battery saving mode built into the operating system and in-depth information about its status.

Possibility to configure different notification profiles depending on your availability.

Option to create different user profiles for the same shared phone.

New screen pinning function to only allow access to a single app.

Easier access to Android's quick settings swiping from the top of the screen.

New Android Runtime ART that improves performance and saves battery.

Possibility to reverse the interface's colors.

Applications remain open in the general information tab even after rebooting the device.

Update:

Integrate caching and memory management into PreloadManager

We made our PreloadManager even better as well. It already enabled you to preload media into memory outside of playback and then seamlessly hand it over to a player when needed. Although pretty performant, you still had to be careful to not exceed memory limits by accidentally preloading too much. So with Media3 1.9.0, we added two features that makes this a lot easier and more stable:

Caching support – When defining how far to preload, you can now choose PreloadStatus.specifiedRangeCached(0, 5000) as a target state for preloaded items. This will add the specified range to your cache on disk instead of loading the data to memory. With this, you can provide a much larger range of items for preloading as the ones further away from the current item no longer need to occupy memory. Note that this requires setting a Cache in DefaultPreloadManager.Builder.

Automatic memory management – We also updated our LoadControl interface to better handle the preload case so you are now able to set an explicit upper memory limit for all preloaded items in memory. It's 144 MB by default, and you can configure the limit in DefaultLoadControl.Builder. The DefaultPreloadManager will automatically stop preloading once the limit is reached, and automatically releases memory of lower priority items if required.

Rely on new simplified default behaviors in ExoPlayer

As always, we added lots of incremental improvements to ExoPlayer as well. To name just a few:

Mute and unmute – We already had a setVolume method, but have now added the convenience mute and unmute methods to easily restore the previous volume without keeping track of it yourself.

Stuck player detection – In some rare cases the player can get stuck in a buffering or playing state without making any progress, for example, due to codec issues or misconfigurations. Your users will be annoyed, but you never see these issues in your analytics! To make this more obvious, the player now reports a StuckPlayerException when it detects a stuck state.

Wakelock by default – The wake lock management was previously opt-in, resulting in hard to find edge cases where playback progress can be delayed a lot when running in the background. Now this feature is opt-out, so you don't have to worry about it and can also remove all manual wake lock handling around playback.

Simplified setting for CC button logic – Changing TrackSelectionParameters to say "turn subtitles on/off" was surprisingly hard to get right, so we added a simple boolean selectTextByDefault option for this use case.

Simplify your media button preferences in MediaSession

Until now, defining your preferences for which buttons should show up in the media notification drawer on Android Auto or WearOS required defining custom commands and buttons, even if you simply wanted to trigger a standard player method.

Media3 1.9.0 has new functionality to make this a lot simpler – you can now define your media button preferences with a standard player command, requiring no custom command handling at all.

Final Thoughts:

If you have a compatible device, you can get Lollipop for free via an update, and developers can play around with its open-source code. Android 5.0 Lollipop brings your device into a new era with its fresh design and performance boosts. The focus on making things look better and work faster does wonders for daily phone use. With improved battery life and more powerful app capabilities, Lollipop makes using your device a whole lot better.