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google i/o was yesterday and although we didn't get a new version of android officially released we did get a Developer Preview that landed just this morning I'm Joe Levi with pocket now this is a first look and hands-on with Android L on the Nexus 5 before we get started we need to point out that this is not an alpha this is not a beta this is a developer preview which you can download today for that link you'll want to head over to pocketnow.com and we will show you where you can go to download either the SDK or the image for your nexus 5 or your Wi-Fi Nexus 7 but let's jump into it this is the lock screen and as you can see highlighted first and foremost we've got the the new notifications that they showed off at the event will go ahead and scroll up to unlock go back home notice we've got new buttons down here on-screen buttons back now looks like the Google Play icon just pointing the other direction home is a circle that's kind of reminiscent of some other things then our running tasks which now are in the full card based motif the material design is a basic square let's go back home we've got a basic overview welcome make yourself at home this is a tutorial kind of like we've seen before well okay out of that organize your space hangouts now does sms so stuff that we're familiar with we've got this nice brown and a light blue wallpaper running and brand-new version of our app drawer icon folders get a little bit different look to them a little bit of a new keyboard here it looks a lot more flat this is very obviously the google keyboard has the same personalization information and you can see a little bit different way that its handling the numbers above the letter let's look at the app drawer pretty much the same thing we don't have the the play store or the marketplace icon up there so very similar to the Google now launcher in that respect got a nice tilt effect like we've seen in the past go back home and pretty much everything we do now has this ripple effect that they talked about so if you can look closely down here we've got a glow there around the browser we've got a ripple on the home button let's see what our notifications say I've already taken a screenshot I can share immediately right from here I don't have to go in and open up any app or even open up the gallery to find it i can share right there let's go into our Wi-Fi settings pull this down notification shade and notice over here we've got some much different iconography we no longer have what we had over there on the side our time clock is now bigger go ahead and tap on this little less snowman this little person over here very different in fact this looks an awful lot like what we saw on the asuste padfone x just from a few days ago very very similar we want to go into settings we're going to tap on the COG from here very very pastel but not Apple pastel it's kind of a more subdued subdued theme we pull it down you can notice we've got that shadow effect on the bottom we do too so no more balanced no more glow just the the shadow a new toggle switch over here too it's more like a a knob rather than it is a square button like we had in the past you can go in and look at additional settings pretty much the same as what we'd come to expect to go back out of that you can see I've got an authentication problem because I type my password in wrong but that's what it would look like for you in the same situation now we're in settings let's go ahead and take a look through bluetooth is off we'll turn that on nice little subtle animation there picking out what we're running this is the nexus 5 running android version l they're not calling it licorice or lollipop or lemon meringue or anything like that just l at least for now our dialer looks a bit different notice we've got our dial pad icon down at the bottom and when we move it it scoots out of the way just quickly and easily like that so it's still there it's there for you but it's not in your way it's not maintaining that place right in the middle unless that's where it should be and again the nice subtle animations and drop shadows that go along with that you have it Android L on the Nexus 5 now obviously everything that we saw in the developer conference has been built into this release more of that is to come so you'll want to make sure you stay tuned subscribe to our channel so you don't miss out on anything also head on over to pocketnow.com right now so you can see all of our additional coverage on android l and the other stuff that came out of the google i/o conference you like this video please hit the thumbs up button and as i mentioned before make sure you subscribe to the channel so you don't miss out on our cool new stuff it's coming just around the corner for pocket now showing off cool operating systems and a peek into the future I'm Joe Levi thanks for watching I'll catch you real soon