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what's going on guys the Marklin Sangin from TechnoBuffalo and today we'll be taking a look at android lollipop on the nexus 9 and over I'll see what's new with Google's latest Android operating system so what Android lollipop you get a ton of new features but probably one of the most popular feature and the most interesting one in Android 5.0 is your new design language material design basically everything you touch brings something on to the screen or moves it off so you know exactly where they're coming from a lot of the google apps have been redesigned to fit android lollipop so material design language so that means apps like Google music Gmail and the photos that will have that material design look everything you touch animates and overall just looks really cool now probably one of my favorite features from some Android devices like the g3 or the oneplus one was the ability to double tap to wake the device and when Android lollipop you now have the ability to double tap to wake the screen which is always an awesome feature to have and now that I've gotten used to this feature I barely use a lock and unlock button on my oneplus one and I could probably say the same for the Nexus 9 the lock screen for Android lollipop has changed quite a bit too it looks a lot like Google now scarred based system and all of your notifications are displayed directly on the lock screen you can archive an email tap reply expand notifications to see more information and so on now if you don't want any of your sensitive information on your lock screen you can set them to be redacted when they show up on a lock screen now probably one of the best notification enhancement in Android lollipop is something Google calls priority mode it's a bit like Do Not Disturb on iOS but it seems much better here you can choose which apps can still disturb you when priority mode is enabled even better when you set it Android gives you an option to set a duration before it goes back into normal notifications that way you won't forget to switch it off so with Android lollipop when you swipe down from the top you get all your notifications in one place and you also now have access to your quick settings by swiping down one more time the quick settings looks much cleaner and simplistic than before you have a few more handy new features here like a shortcut for your flashlight which wasn't in KitKat and a new brightness slider which i think is more useful than what we had before in KitKat now Andrew does a lot of multiple user accounts on tablets for a while now but in lollipop there's a new option called guest mode that works on both phones and tablets the idea is that it creates a clean safe and disposable workspace that anybody can use your guests can even quickly log into their account to check emails and when done using it you or your guests can get rid of the data inside the guest account at any time leaving no trace of information from that guest session now let's say guest mode is too much work for you and your kid or friend just wants to use an app on your tablet or phone you can now pin apps which essentially locks the app down and that way your friend or kid won't go snooping around your email or personal data it's somewhat similar to guided access feature in iOS but much better in my opinion the multitasking view now is a new name it's called overview and a new material design look each app is a big card stacked up and you can scroll through many more recent app that you use to be able to but the best feature is that any app can create multiple cards so for example when you compose a new mail or do a google search you can switch back and forth between tasks in a single app when it comes to the home screen your first impression of the home screen likely won't be too different from what it is now you'll still have the same screen of apps and the same status bar as before but the Google search bar uses material design and the soft navigation keys at the bottom look different too you get a bunch of new wallpapers which all look beautiful and swiping right still takes you to Google now which looks almost the same except the customization options reminders and settings no longer live in the bottom of the screen but now as an overlay menu accessible by another swipe to the right now moving on to the other cooler features it wasn't a problem on the Nexus 5 but non Nexus devices running KitKat except for the Moto X couldn't use ok Google Voice activation which lets you dictate commands hands-free lollipop is taking this feature one step further by letting you do this when the screen is turned off into phones lock technically Google says that any phone with the capable of digital signal processors should be able to take advantage of this new functionality unfortunately unlike the new Moto X you won't be able to use your own hot words to activate the device Android lollipop also features project Volta and a new battery saver feature which essentially cuts off a lot of activities data and performance when a device gets down to 15% and so to sum it all up for you guys it's hard not to be impressed by Google's effort in building android lollipop it not only introduces a completely new design but a bunch of new software features that really improve the Android experience overall it's one of the biggest upgrades Android has seen yet and it's definitely worth making the jump when your device eventually gets it thank you guys so much for watching this video and if you guys would like to see more make sure to hit that subscribe button down below and we'd like to play video games every now and then in this office so make sure to check us out at twitch TV slash TechnoBuffalo and we hope to see you guys there