Iconic release. Material design looked fresh as hell. Shame about the battery life and wake locks though which were never fixed until Android 6.
The design was really great. Everything 4.4 and below looks horribly outdated.
Part of me misses the short-lived Holo design from the Honeycomb era.
Good gravy. I still remember the yoloholo and praiseDuarte days
They look outdated because they are more than a decade old.
never fixed until
Android 6Android 9FTFY
It wasn’t until my Xiaomi Mi 8 that I could use my phone without babysitting wakelocks. My nexus 6P still had them, and the consequences were quite annoying thanks to the SD810…
Back when material design actually felt like ‘material’
I liked lollipop a lot but stock android didn’t look as good. Especially the notification bar.
Grrr you reminded me that lollipop got rid of the notification ticker.
One of the nicest implementations of notifications and they scrapped it for intrusive heads up.
Preach!!!
Give me the ticker back!
I disable heads up, permanently. God that’s fucking awful.
Lollipop was my first foray into Android and the reason I switched from iOS. FYI, Firefox still supports it.
