Android 5.0 Lollipop introduces material design principles, enhanced notifications, improved battery life through ART and JobScheduler, multiple network connections, new camera and audio APIs, expanded security features, and cross-device synchronization. It also provides multi-dex support to overcome the method limit, and improved performance through ART's ahead-of-time compilation compared to Dalvik's just-in-time compilation. Developer tools have also been enhanced to analyze battery usage statistics.

1. Lick my
Lollipop
#MoMoSlo

2. Željko Plesac
Android developer at
Infinum SI
zeljko.plesac@infinum.co

3. What are the main
drawbacks of
Android OS?

4. • Static design
• Battery drainage
• Over heating
• Lagging (it’s really slow after few months of usage)
• Decentralized - it lacks central Android body to
address the grievance of its users.
• Fragmentation

5. Solution for all of our problems?

7. Say hello to Android 5.0/L/Lollipop!

9. What’s new in
Android 5.0. Lollipop?

10. Material design

11. • brand new Android design theme/principles
• main goals:
1. Material is the metaphor
2. Bold, graphic, intentional
3. Motion provides meaning

12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TXgCzxEnw

13. Interfaces should be “bold, graphic, intentional”

14. Logo

15. LogoSurfaces and shadows

16. Tiny details

17. One design to conquer them all

18. Enhanced notifications

19. New ways to control when and how you
receive messages

20. High-priority notifications are presented to users for a short period
of time with an expanded layout exposing possible actions

21. Priority mode for fewer disruptions

22. View and respond to messages directly
from your lock screen

23. ART

24. • Android apps are deployed in Dalvik bytecode, which is
portable, unlike native code. In order to be able to run the
app on a device, the code has to be compiled to machine
code.
• older versions of Android use Dalvik VM
• based on JIT (just in time) compilation
• each time you run an app, the part of the code
required for its execution is going to be translated
(compiled) to machine code at that moment
• it has a smaller memory footprint and uses less
physical space on the device.

25. • Android 5.0 runs exclusively on the ART runtime,
which offers ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation
• The whole code of the app will be pre-
compiled during install (once)

26. Why is this good?

27. • With no need for JIT compilation, the code should
execute much faster
• it doesn't hit the CPU as hard as just-in-time code
compiling on Dalvik (also, results in less battery
drain)

28. Any downsides?

29. • the generated machine code requires more space
than the existing bytecode
• the code is pre-compiled at install time, so the
installation process takes a bit longer
• larger memory footprint at execution time (fewer
apps run concurrently)

30. Interested in statistics/benchmark?

31. • increased speed in CPU floating operations by
approx. 20%
• increased speed in RAM operations by approx. 10%
• increased speed in storage operations by approx.
10%
• CPU integer operations - slight advantage goes to
Dalvik
• Install times on my Nexus 4, for one of our larger
projects, jumped from ~17 s to ~25 s.
(tested on Kitkat 4.4.4, should be even faster now)

32. Project Volta

33. Android 5.0 emphasizes
improvements in battery life:
1. Scheduling jobs
2. Developer tools for
battery usage

34. 1. Scheduling jobs
• Android 5.0 provides a new JobScheduler API that lets you
optimize battery life by defining jobs for the system to run
asynchronously (at a later time or under specified condition)
• The app has non-user-facing work that you can defer.
• The app has work you'd prefer to do when the unit is
plugged in.
• The app has a task that requires network access or a Wi-Fi
connection.
• The app has a number of tasks that you want to run as a
batch on a regular schedule.

35. • You can schedule the task to run under specific
conditions, such as:
• Start when the device is charging
• Start when the device is connected to an
unmetered network
• Start when the device is idle
• Finish before a certain deadline or with a
minimum delay

36. 2. Developer tools for battery usage
• The new dumpsys batterystats command generates interesting
statistical data about battery usage on a device, organized by unique
user ID (UID):
• History of battery related events
• Global statistics for the device
• Approximate power use per UID and system component
• Per-app mobile ms per packet
• System UID aggregated statistics
• App UID aggregated statistics

37. WebView updates

38. • since the release of Android 4.4
KitKat, WebView has been
based on Chromium (it has the
same rendering and Javascript
engine as Chrome for Android)
• WebView is now unbundled from
the system and will be regularly
updated through Google Play.
• every mobile device with
Android 5 or later should have
not only the same but the latest
browsing engine in the WebView

39. Multiple network
connections

40. • Android 5.0 provides new multi-networking APIs
that let your app dynamically scan for available
networks with specific capabilities, and establish a
connection to them
• useful when your app requires a specialized network, such
as an SUPL, MMS, or carrier-billing network, or if you want to
send data using a particular type of transport protocol.

41. New Camera and
Audio API

42. • Android 5.0 introduces the new
android.hardware.camera2 API to facilitate fine-
grain photo capture and image processing
• Use the new notification and media APIs to ensure
that the system UI knows about your media
playback and can extract and show album art.
• Controlling media playback across a UI and a
service is now a lot easier
• ability for apps to browse the media content library
of another app

43. Security

44. • encryption is automatically turned on to help
protect data on lost or stolen devices
• Android Smart Lock - secure your phone or tablet
by pairing it with a trusted device like your
wearable or even your car

45. Cross device
synchronization

46. • ability to pair up different devices (tablet + Android
wear + smartphone + Android TV) in one system
• applications are optimised for every device
• songs, photos, apps, and even recent searches
from one of your Android devices can be
immediately enjoyed across all of your Android
devices

47. Multi dex support

50. • Dalvik VM has one major limitation which we didn’t
discuss yet:
APK HAS UPPER LIMIT OF
65,536 METHODS!

51. • ART natively supports loading multiple .dex files
from application APK files.
• ART performs pre-compilation at application install
time which scans for classes(..N).dex files and
compiles them into a single .oat file for execution
by the Android device
• Android build tools construct a primary dex
(classes.dex) and supporting (classes2.dex,
classes3.dex) as needed. The build system will
then package them into an APK file for distribution.

52. and much more…

53. • BLE Peripheral Mode - Android devices can now function in
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) peripheral mod
• Managed provisioning and unified view of apps
• OpenGL ES 3.1 and Android Extension Pack
• 64-bit support
• Print preview and page range support
• better integration with OK Google
• Concurrent documents in Overview
• Android Work

54. Bonus :)

55. • Android Studio 1.0 RC 1 has been released to
Canary channel
• Material design has already been integrated to
Android Support Library
• Google Play Services Granular Dependency
Management - you’ll be able to depend only on the
parts of Google Play services that you use by
utilizing separate libraries for each API.

56. Fun times are coming!

57. Thanks!

58. zeljko.plesac@infinum.co
skype: zeljko.plesac
twitter: @ZeljkoPlesac

59. Fin.