diff --git a/docs/html/about/versions/lollipop.jd b/docs/html/about/versions/lollipop.jd index 110ff4ba06e41..30d2a70e038ac 100644 --- a/docs/html/about/versions/lollipop.jd +++ b/docs/html/about/versions/lollipop.jd @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ page.title=Android Lollipop
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Welcome to Android 5.0 Lollipop—-the largest and most ambitious release for Android yet!
+Welcome to Android 5.0 Lollipop—the largest and most ambitious release for Android yet!
This release is packed with new features for users and thousands of new APIs for developers. It extends Android even further, from phones, tablets, and wearables, to TVs and cars.
-For a closer look at the new developer APIs, see the Android 5.0 API Overview. Or, read more about Android 5.0 for consumers at www.android.com.
+For a closer look at the new developer APIs, see the +Android +5.0 API Overview. Or, read more +about Android 5.0 for consumers at +www.android.com.
+ +
Varying notification details may appear on the lock screen if desired by the user. Users may elect to allow none, some, or all notification content to be shown on a secure lock screen.
- -Key notification alerts such as incoming calls appear in a heads-up notification—-a small floating window that allows the user to respond or dismiss without leaving the current app.
+Key notification alerts such as incoming calls appear in a heads-up notification—a small floating window that allows the user to respond or dismiss without leaving the current app.
You can now add new metadata to notifications to collect associated contacts (for ranking), category, and priority.
-A new MediaStyle notification template provides consistent media controls for notifications, including on the lock screen, with options for custom controls such as "thumbs up."
+A new media notification template provides consistent media controls for notifications with up to 6 action buttons, including custom controls such as "thumbs up"—no more need for RemoteViews!
Android TV provides a complete TV platform for your app’s big screen experience. Android TV is centered around a simplified home screen experience that allows users to discover content easily, with personalized recommendations and voice search.
+Android TV provides a complete TV platform for your app's big screen experience. Android TV is centered around a simplified home screen experience that allows users to discover content easily, with personalized recommendations and voice search.
-With Android TV you can now create big, bold experiences for your app or game content and support interactions with game controllers and other input devices. To help you build cinematic, 10-foot UIs for television, Android 5.0 provides a leanback UI framework in the v17 Support Library.
+With Android TV you can now create big, bold experiences for your app or game content and support interactions with game controllers and other input devices. To help you build cinematic, 10-foot UIs for television, Android provides a leanback UI framework in the v17 support library.
The Android TV Input Framework (TIF) allows TV apps to handle video streams from sources such as HDMI inputs, TV tuners, and IPTV receivers. It also enables live TV search and recommendations via metadata published by the TV Input and includes an HDMI-CEC Control Service to handle multiple devices with a single remote.
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Android 5.0 introduces an redesigned Overview space (formerly called Recents) that’s more versatile and useful for multitasking.
+Android 5.0 introduces a redesigned Overview space (formerly called Recents) that’s more versatile and useful for multitasking.
-New APIs allow you to show individual activities in your app as individual documents alongside other recent screens.
+New APIs allow you to show separate activities in your app as individual documents alongside other recent screens.
-You can take advantage of concurrent documents to provide users instant access to more of your content or services. For example, you could use concurrent documents to represent files in a productivity app, player matches in a game, or chats in a messaging app.
+You can take advantage of concurrent documents to provide users instant access to more of your content or services. For example, you might use concurrent documents to represent files in a productivity app, player matches in a game, or chats in a messaging app.
@@ -150,12 +155,10 @@ page.title=Android LollipopAndroid 5.0 adds new APIs that allow apps to perform concurrent operations with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), allowing both scanning (central mode) and advertising (peripheral mode).
-New multi-networking features allow apps to query available networks for available features such as whether they are Wi-Fi, cellular, metered, or provide certain network features, then request a connection and respond to connectivity loss or other network changes.
+New multi-networking features allow apps to query available networks for available features such as whether they are Wi-Fi, cellular, metered, or provide certain network features. Then the app can request a connection and respond to connectivity loss or other network changes.
NFC APIs now allow apps to register an NFC application ID (AID) dynamically. They can also set the preferred card emulation service per active service and create an NDEF record containing UTF-8 text data.
-The Android Beam feature for wirelessly sharing files between devices is now available in the ShareActionProvider, so users can select Android Beam as the share action before touching the other device.
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Gameloft's Rival Knights uses ASTC from AEP and Compute Shaders from ES 3.1 to deliver HDR Bloom effects and provide more graphical detail.
Android now includes support for standard USB audio peripherals, allowing users to connect USB headsets, speakers, microphones, or other high performance digital peripherals. Android 5.0 also adds support for Opus audio codecs.
-New MediaSession APIs for controlling media playback make it easier to provide consistent media controls across screens.
+New {@link android.media.session.MediaSession} APIs for controlling media playback now make it easier to provide consistent media controls across screens and other controllers.
Android 5.0 introduces a new camera API that lets you capture raw formats such as YUV and Bayer RAW, and control parameters such as exposure time, ISO sensitivity, and frame duration, on a per-frame basis. Burst capture mode lets you uncompressed 8 megapixel YUV images at 30 FPS on supported devices.
+Android 5.0 introduces all new camera APIs that let you capture raw formats such as YUV and Bayer RAW, and control parameters such as exposure time, ISO sensitivity, and frame duration on a per-frame basis. The new fully-synchronized camera pipeline allows you to capture uncompressed 8 megapixel YUV images at 30 FPS on supported devices.
Along with images, you can also capture metadata like noise models and optical information from the camera.
@@ -208,7 +211,7 @@ page.title=Android LollipopIn Android 5.0 a new tilt detector sensor helps improve activity recognition on supported devices, and a heart rate sensor reports the heart rate of the person touching the device.
+In Android 5.0, a new tilt detector sensor helps improve activity recognition on supported devices, and a heart rate sensor reports the heart rate of the person touching the device.
New interaction composite sensors are now available to detect special interactions such as a wake up gesture, a pick up gesture, and a glance gesture.
@@ -220,17 +223,17 @@ page.title=Android LollipopThe initial release for Android 5.0 includes a version of Chromium for WebView based on the Chromium M37 release, adding support for WebRTC, WebAudio, and WebGL.
+The initial release for Android 5.0 includes a version of Chromium for {@link android.webkit.WebView} based on the Chromium M37 release, adding support for WebRTC, WebAudio, and WebGL.
Although WebView has been based on Chromium since Android 4.4, the Chromium layer is now updatable from Google Play.
-As new versions of Chromium become available, users can update from Google Play to ensure they get the latest enhancements and bug fixes for WebView, providing the latest web APIs and bug fixes for apps using WebView.
+As new versions of Chromium become available, users can update from Google Play to ensure they get the latest enhancements and bug fixes for WebView, providing the latest web APIs and bug fixes for apps using WebView on Android 5.0 and higher.
Accessibility APIs can retrieve detailed information about the properties of windows on the screen that sighted users can interact with and define standard or customized input actions for UI elements.
+New accessibility APIs can retrieve detailed information about the properties of windows on the screen that sighted users can interact with and define standard or customized input actions for UI elements.
New Input method editor (IME) APIs enable faster switching to other IMEs directly from the input method.