{"id":68584,"date":"2014-06-25T19:06:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T17:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=68584"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:37:38","slug":"google-io-2014-android-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-io-2014-android-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Google I\/O 2014: Google teases the next version of Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we won&#8217;t be seeing a new version of Android just yet, Google teased the upcoming operating system at Google I\/O 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the major <a title=\"Android Material Design\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-i-o-2014-material-design\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android redesign<\/a>, Android &#8220;L&#8221; will focus on <strong>polishing the operating system<\/strong>. There&#8217;s a new, faster runtime environment called ART, which will make apps work more fluidly and preserve your battery.<\/p>\n<p>Notifications are getting a major overhaul as well. With Android L, you will be able to <strong>interact with notifications from the lock screen<\/strong>. Double tap the notification to jump to the app or swipe it away. Notifications in Android L are smart too; it&#8217;ll learn how you use your phone and will offer notifications in <strong>order of highest importance, <\/strong>a type of prioritization we&#8217;ve already seen with Google&#8217;s <a title=\"Gmail priority inbox\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/gmail-priority-inbox-has-arrived\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">priority inbox<\/a> for Gmail.<\/p>\n<p>In-app notifications have been tweaked as well, and now allow you to reply or dismiss a notification easily.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-68643\" title=\"Android L\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/06\/DSC0057-568x377.jpg\" alt=\"Android L\" width=\"568\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/06\/DSC0057-568x377.jpg 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/06\/DSC0057-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/06\/DSC0057-256x170.jpg 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/06\/DSC0057.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Android L will also get updated security. The operating system can detect when your <a title=\"Android Wear\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-io-2014-android-wear-shipping-today\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android Wear<\/a> watch is close and will <strong>unlock your phone automatically<\/strong> without needing to enter a pin. If the watch gets too far away, Android L will prompt the user for a password. Google is extending this security feature to its <strong>Chromebooks<\/strong> as well.<\/p>\n<p>Google is also taking battery life serious with <strong>Project Volta<\/strong>. Developers will have a new battery tracking tool to see exactly what a device is doing with <a title=\"How to detect malicious Android apps eating your battery\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/how-to-detect-malicious-apps-eating-your-android-battery\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">battery power<\/a>. It&#8217;ll be much more advanced than the battery tracker currently in Android. The battery saver mode will turn off non-essential services to squeeze some more life out of your battery, something we&#8217;ve seen phone makers like Samsung implement into their handsets already.<\/p>\n<p>No word about when we can expect to see Android L just yet.<\/p>\n<p>Header image source: Google<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS FROM GOOGLE I\/O:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Google rethinks Android design\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-i-o-2014-material-design\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google rethinks Android design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Android One, a mobile operating system for emerging markets\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-io-2014-android-one\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android One, a mobile operating system for emerging markets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Google Docs gets native Office editing\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-io-2014-google-docs-gets-native-office-editing\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Docs gets native Office editing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we won&#8217;t be seeing a new version of Android just yet, Google teased the upcoming operating system at Google I\/O 2014. In addition to the major Android redesign, Android &#8220;L&#8221; will focus on polishing the operating system. There&#8217;s a new, faster runtime environment called ART, which will make apps work more fluidly and preserve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-io-2014-android-l\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google I\/O 2014: Google teases the next version of Android&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":68643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2340],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-68584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330576,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68584\/revisions\/330576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68584"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=68584"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=68584"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=68584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}