sincity Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 After months of rumour and speculation Google has officially launched Android L at its IO conference in San Francisco. With over 5000 new APIs Google is promising big things from the Android L update - its biggest release to date - and the developer preview will be available from today. Something users will immediately notice is the change in navigation icons at the bottom of the screen, with the home key changed to a circle and the multi-task button now a single square. The back key has also been updated to a triangle. Developing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samwisegamgee Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Biggest thing to me was the material design UI ... didn't see that coming . Still gonna be an iOS user doe baha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seggy Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Biggest takeaway was the clarity of differences between Facebook, Google, Windows, and Apple strategies. Facebook — focused clearly on mining social data for directing ad revenue. Moving platform to mobile and possibly fragmenting the social plumbing into disparate apps. Windows — they're still a desktop company with a desktop mindset, trying to play in the cloud. Best thing going for them is legacy and XBox. Apple — iOS, best line of laptops. Google — They're focused on creating the infrastructure that plumbs the internet and enabling app developers to focus on business logic as opposed to infrastructure concerns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_14 Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Biggest thing is Chromecast!!! ha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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