Six licks of Google's Android Lollipop

Spider · Oct 24, 2014

Summary: It's not shipping yet, but you can run a pre-release of Android Lollipop, and it's already looking pretty tasty.

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for Linux and Open Source | October 20, 2014 -- 11:09 GMT (04:09 PDT)

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Take a lick of Android Lollipop

Google's new Android 5.0,http://www.zdnet.com/six-licks-of-googles-android-lollipop-7000034829/ Lollipop is ready to come out of its wrapper for developers with the release of its SDK. While ordinary users shouldn't try installing it on their Nexus 5 phones or Nexus 7 (2013) tablets, experts and programmers can download and install Lollipop now.

I did it and while I found that Lollipop still needs some work, it's already very tasty. Here's an early look at what you can expect from this new version of Android.