Google has just made the next version of Android official. During the keynote address of its annual developer conference, Google unveiled that Android M will succeed Android Lollipop this year. Google says that Android M, which is debuting as a prerelease version today with a full release later this year, brings a host of new features and performance enhancements. But at the same time, Google's Sundar Pichai says the company has "gone back to the basics" and improved quality of the platform. Where Android 5.0 Lollipop introduced a new design and interface, M appears to be focused on improving the stability and usability of the software. Google isn't saying what the version number or name of M will be just yet, but it is showing of a lot of what will be part of the update.
It's good to hear that there would be performance enhancements to Android M. Hopefully, these performance enhancements will make the older Asus Nexus 7 2012 Google Android tablet with 1GB of RAM, and a Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU run faster.
Lollipop is out, but a lot of devices don't have it because the maker of the device, or the cell phone company refuses to update their older devices to Lollipop.
Most old Apps for older versions of Android should work on Lollipop, so Lollipop is backwards compatible with a lot of old apps.
I think people who uses older devices with 512MB or 1GB of RAM are excited for Lollipop 5.1.1 because it uses less RAM than Android 4.4 which runs slower on devices with 512MB or 1GB of RAM.
Sounds like a smaller release than normal but improving on where L made mistakes. My phone runs L fine but I know a few phone models really struggle to run it decently.
I agree it sounds like a smaller release. I think Google will bundle more of their own apps like Google Pay, Google Now, etc into Android M, and improve the performance of their Apps more, and the operating system. I read on a blog that the battery life would be better in Android M.
My older tablet runs Android L fine, but I also read that some other devices run L not as stably, or fast. But, the poor performance could be caused by bloatware/pre-bundled apps, very little free space, and other problems not related to L.
