Android KitKat Vs Lollipop: Here's The Difference!

Android KitKat Vs Lollipop: Here's The Difference!

Find out if Android Lollipop is really different than KitKat.    Tuesday, October 28, 2014:  Google's Android 5.0 gained quite a lot of popularity among techies due to its secret name 'L'. Google successfully maintained the secrecy until the official launch of OS. Company announced the full form of L as, 'Lollipop' while releasing the next generation Android OS. While plenty of devices are still waiting to see KitKat flavour, Google is rolling out the official Lollipop update to the Nexus devices. Manufacturers will take time to push Lollipop to some devices. Some devices will not get to taste the Lollipop at all. KitKat users are really impatient to try Lollipop on their devies but, is Lollipop really that different than KitKat? Let's find out. 1. Performance Runtime ART comes is packed as default option in Lollipop which will help Lollipop to run faster and smoother. Runtime ART was introduced in KitKat as alternative option. All apps in Play Store are compatible to run with runtime ART. Google claims that Lollipop is the least power consuming OS as compared to KitKat. So, users will notice significant difference in battery life. Lollipop offers multiple cards for the same app. Users can open multiple windows of the same app. This is great update to the multitasking on smartphone. Lollipop can open RAW image format, this is huge benefit for photographers, this will let them edit and upload their photographs on cloud right from their Android Lollipop device. 2. Notification Google had introduced lockscreen notifications in KitKat, it has been improved in Lollipop. Users were able to view notifications in KitKat but now they can even interact, reply to messages right from lockscreen. Many elements in notification panel have been improved in Lollipop. Do not disturb mode has been added to Lollipop, users can customize and set specific hours for DND mode. Few important buttons like flashlight, hotspot and screen capture were missing in quick settings bar of KitKat, they are now added in Lollipop. 3. Connectivity and API Google has focused more on making Android versatile in Lollipop. Over 5000 APIs of Lollipop are available for developers to use. There is consistency in synchronization of apps and data in Lollipop. Google has added functionality to control Lollipop smart device using smartwatch voice commands. The experience of using Android will be more consistent and synchronized across smartphone, tablet, TV, smartwatches etc. Unlike KitKat, Lollipop has smart WiFi detection function. Lollipop doesn't connect to the WiFi network if there is no actual data connection being offered by the network. 4. Material World Lollipop is based on Material Design language. This new design brings more unified, clean and rich UI design on the smartphone. Lollipop has clean and bold lines, fun animation of transforming colors. The UI looks more flat and sleek now. The visuals of notifications and notification bar is highly inspired by Material Design. 5. Security Data encryption is enabled by default in Lollipop. There is an option to hide sensitive information from being displayed on phone in Lollipop. New unlocking features in Lollipop ensure more security of user data. Users can pair their Lollipop smartphone with their Android smartwatch using Bluetooth and use the smartwatch to unlock the phone. Lollipop offers multiple user profiles along with guest profile, users can customize the access to each profile.