Gadgetory

Google is making some big changes to Android for its el release this fall and starting today it's letting developers take an early look at it naturally we wanted to try it out too so we got the preview up and running on a nexus 5 to see what it's like there are three major changes to pay attention to here the first and the most obvious is that there's going to be design changes all across the OS you can see it right away and androids new buttons a triangle circle and square new designs aren't in place across most of the operating system just yet but you can already see it in action a few places like the calculator and the dialer Google is calling the style material design in most places you'll find splashes of bright color simple geometric shapes and basic shadows to let you know when a menu or a button is above or below something else pretty much everything you touch animates - and in a really playful way at first glance it's all pretty stylish and smart the next big changes to multitasking now all of your apps will display as separate cards almost like a Rolodex but more importantly every tab that you have open in chrome will eventually appear here - blurring the line between apps and websites for now the layout seems a little bit more inefficient but it certainly looks good the final major changes to notifications for one big interactive notifications will now pop up when you're inside an app you can also now interact with them all straight from the lock screen swiping to dismiss them or dragging to interact with them it looks like a really useful addition Android that looks good so far on the surface now we're just looking forward to seeing what the rest of it looks like