

Among the many changes, Notifications can now be displayed on the lockscreen in Android L. This will be one of the features that users, not just developers, will be talking about. Notifications are not new to Android L, but they have been overhauled and upgraded. So, to paraphrase David Letterman – ladies and gentlemen, from our home office in Eagan, MN, here is Tonight’s Top 10 List of Android L features you should begin to explore… 1. However, I do believe this list of top 10 Android L features includes Android L features that will impact – at least at some level – every Android developer’s applications and approach to building those applications. My choice in best features may not be your choice in best features based on aspects like your frustrations and views on the current OS and your users’ application needs. Of course, any list like this is somewhat arbitrary. I have picked the top 10 Android L features that I believe developers need to start to explore. The to-be-named (it’s just called “ Android L” for now) and numbered (version 5?, version 4.5?, …) version of Android is by Google’s own admission “one of the most comprehensive releases we have done” (see comment here from Sundar Pichai, senior vice president at Google in charge of Android, Chrome and Google Apps).Īs a developer of Android applications, you should know there really are a significant number of new capabilities, updates, and under-the-cover improvements. Unveiled at Google I/O in late June, Google presented the next release of the Android operating system.
