Gadgetory

we wanted a design that was clear and simple and that people would intuitively understand so we imagined what if pixels didn't just have color but also depth what if there was an intelligent material that was as simple as paper but could transform and change shape in response to touch and this led us to a way of thinking that we call material design in the real world every small change in position and depth creates subtle but important changes in lighting and shadows so as part of the L preview will now allow app developers to specify an elevation value for any UI surface and the framework will render it in correct perspective with virtual light sources and real-time shadows material design is beautiful and bold because clean typographic layouts are simple and easy to understand your content is the focus so the L preview will allow app developers to easily colorize all framework elements in your app to match the theme to your brand so you're probably wondering how this looks like in practice we're going to give you a sneak peek at one of our familiar Google applications in the new material design here you can see step by step how we update to design the typography the grid changes and finally the surfaces and bold colors and a few small changes make a really big difference let's have a look at now we're all familiar which is the phone dialer thanks Marcelo ok so the first thing you'll notice when you find up far up the phone dialer are those bold material colors and shadows and you'll see the the ripple touch effect as I touch each of these tabs and you get a more subtle material touch effect on the recent calls you'll see that the dialer button has its elevation set so it's floating above the UI and as I tap it you get these really nice too rifle animations in L we give you instant interactive access to notifications right from the lock screen so now you can read open and dismiss in seconds I can swipe down and I get my full list of notifications and we've done a clever thing here where we've merged the notification shade so something that's been in Android since 10 with the lock screen and so from here I can DoubleTap on a notification to launch the corresponding app or if there's something I don't need I can just dismiss with a single swipe and to unlock the phone well this is just a notification shade so you just swipe it away and you're straight into the device fast and simple in El we're introducing a new concept we call personal unlock it and personal locking enables a device to determine if it's in a trusted environment say in the owner's hand or on beside the owner on a table personal and locking users signals such as locations you tags it made Bluetooth devices that are visible even your unique voice branch so I currently have a pattern of lock on this device but because I'm wearing a Bluetooth watch my phone knows it's me who's present and so it doesn't challenge me with an unlock so for example if I just swipe up the phone will unlock just like that if I take my watch off let me just add it to Marcelo ok so now my phone can no longer see the watch and because of that my phone cannot ascertain if it's me who's present as a result my phone will lock down its security so now when I go to unlock the device it presents me with a pin lock it's a really great feature the last performance enhancement I want to take you through is on battery and we've worked hard to make sure that the battery keeps up with the performance and of course there's a variety of systems and components that tax the battery on a modern phone or tablet so Wi-Fi radios cell radios GPA GP you etc you can't improve unless you can measure so we created the tool that we call battery historian and it helps you visualize on a time axis the battery usage information now you can correlate battery discharge with what was happening to the device at the time and then finally we've added a new battery saver mode in el sol battery saver allows you to clock down CPU the refresh rate even turned off background data to conserve battery and you can trigger it manually or configure it to come on automatically when the battery level is low so battery saver is really great if you're about to embark on a long hike or maybe a long protest and you say you want the battery to last even longer