L Preview

Mimikyu

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Fresh Pots

Captain Morgan wrote: »

I thought it would be a good idea to create a L Preview thread as it is available on Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 (WiFi).

The factory images are available now. (Link)

I'll have a look later on this evening, hopefully by then others have tried it and reported back.

Will it work on the 2012 edition or just the new one?

Mimikyu

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beardo81

Not going to get the preview on my phone, but does anyone else think the new on screen software keys look awful? Playstation throw backs or something. I'm not impressed.

IrishStuff09

Just booted up now on my Nexus 7, will post screenshots and feedback in a bit!
Was surprisingly very easy to install too. (Forgotten all my knowledge of adb and fastboot)

EDIT: Some here, not really sure what to test out. Any ideas? :P

Settings http://i.imgur.com/TkDyrEk.png
Recent Apps (chrome integration) http://i.imgur.com/QGDIIST.jpg
Lockscreen w/ Notifications http://i.imgur.com/TB9hrUW.jpg
Notification Bar http://i.imgur.com/WpMvEJN.jpg
Quick Toggles in the Notification Bar http://i.imgur.com/IyBPQ3U.png

Links, since the images were too large.

Dman001

Love the new multitasking, and finally auto-rotate on/off in the Notification bar!!

droidman123

urrgghhh the software keys are dire!

DERPY DERPFACE

Is there nothing in settings that says Android version 5, kernel and all the other technical stuff?

AlanS181824

I'm also not fond of the new on screen buttons.

Might install this on my 2013 Nexus 7.

Ste-

Dying to try this but I'm going to wait for root so I can restore my app data.

marcbrophy

Just installing now!
Damn you ADB :pac:

StaticNoise

Thanks for making the thread. A part of me was considering doing so yesterday, but I couldn't figure if there was one already, or if it was for a particular reason.

I've not got the devices, but I'm going to fire the image up in Andy or Bluestacks and give it a whirl.

projectgtr

Cheers Irishstuff for the pics , I won't be trying it on my N5 but I've a N7 2013 coming next week so I'll try that. Is there much involved?

IrishStuff09

Re the above: Honestly, it was easier than I expected to install. Just run command prompt in the platform-tools folder of the SDK, and run the flash-all.bat file from the factory image when the phone is in fastboot mode.

Storagehttp://i.imgur.com/a8cnhfi.png
Batteryhttp://i.imgur.com/2tEzIEA.png
Abouthttp://i.imgur.com/13V14Ge.png
Batteryhttp://i.imgur.com/9LqXjLx.png

Sonics2k

Did you need to root or unlock the bootloader?

IrishStuff09

Sonics2k wrote: »

Did you need to root or unlock the bootloader?

Just unlock the boot loader, no root available for it at the moment. Chanfire over at XDA is working on it come Monday, so I hear.

Sonics2k

IrishStuff09 wrote: »

Just unlock the boot loader, no root available for it at the moment. Chanfire over at XDA is working on it come Monday, so I hear.

Ah brilliant, I thought as much.

I'll wait a week or two until more of the bugs have been ironed out and give it a shot. It looks absolutely beautiful.

IrishStuff09

Looks like the Nexus 5 has root!
https://plus.google.com/102878107479295768991/posts/1Q8YvRJCbkb

StaticNoise

The System Dump has happened. XDA

Android L Apps:
Separate apps:

https://mega.co.nz/#F!XRQCGI6T!UemF-5bCb7YjhENv9kJ99w

Bulk download:

https://mega.co.nz/#!WQY2BDzS!dMpxKt...LB2wLLQng33Alc

Google Play Services 5.0:

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23501681358552790

Playstore (Velvet) APK:

https://mega.co.nz/#!PJwk3ATL!PAKSIi...xBrNM5SHGXJkAc

Private Apps:

https://mega.co.nz/#F!vdhxDSAQ!Jxm9AzvHAlaj-IpLJ7M9Rg

Keyboard: (APK)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...5&postcount=92

Wallpapers:

https://mega.co.nz/#F!7U4kgKjK!y6IU6mTa6ucc_DcBZvLVRA

Fonts: (not a flashable zip)

https://mega.co.nz/#!CAAlzIRa!JNt1IC...3pftfhGeQbERNo

Ringtones and alarms: (not a flashable zip)

https://mega.co.nz/#!WUAVSI7S!QxHcvu...6ZUB0sxUG-GwAw

Bootanimation: (not a flashable zip)

https://mega.co.nz/#!7MR1FLZB!rk33WB...daBCrXO5juNaFQ

WORKING APPS

-Google Home
-Google Now
-Keyboard
-Camera
-Youtube
-Play music
-Playservices
-Search
-Sound search
-Gmail
-Clock
etc

NOT WORKING FOR NOW

-Calculator
-Chrome
-Google Earth

Stuxnet

Stuck on L on my nexus 5, call me old fashioned, but I didnt like the look of it.
DPI is terrible on stock I find, Im too used to Slim Kat rom, which gives the appearance of a much higher resolution as DPI is configured throughout the whole UI. So went back pretty fast :-p

projectgtr

For those thinking of putting it on a daily device might want to have a quick look through the list from XDA of non working apps, still gonna try it on my N7 when it arrives

Engadget
Firefox
Wordbase
Baconreader
Twitter
HBO Go
Signal Check (causes phone to reboot)
Facebook (Posting Comments section is messed up) [Although if you go from the Notification Menu to post a Comment then it isn't messed up]
DropBox (Not working for some)
Photoshop Touch for Phone
Hangouts MMS (Using ChompSMS off of WiFi sends and receives pictures just fine)
Netflix (streaming issues for some)
Hulu+ (streaming issues)
Plex (streaming issues) Plexpass is said to be working
Vonage
Wunderlist
Helium (causes phone to restart)
Neutron Music Player
Square
Light Flow (Light Manager Works and is a good Alternate)
VLC Player
Vine
Flashfox
Dolphin
Docs and Sheets (refuse to install error -112)
Slack
DicePlayer
NBA Jam

murphaph

Dman001 wrote: »

Love the new multitasking, and finally auto-rotate on/off in the Notification bar!!

With CM you've been able to add a tile to do that for a long time now. It's very handy alright.

Fresh Pots

droidman123 wrote: »

urrgghhh the software keys are dire!

Yep hopefully they revert to the old back button for actual release. That sideways triangle looks awful.

Kavrocks

murphaph wrote: »

With CM you've been able to add a tile to do that for a long time now. It's very handy alright.

Or keep stock Android and use Xposed and GravityBox. Although it'd be nice to not have to use Xposed or custom roms for these things.

murphaph

Kavrocks wrote: »

Or keep stock Android and use Xposed and GravityBox. Although it'd be nice to not have to use Xposed or custom roms for these things.

Actually I just looked at my stock N7 and it also has that tile. I just assumed it was a CM feature. Not sure when they added that to stock. I'd also love to be able to leave stock on my phone but there's things I really use in CM that aren't yet part of stock. Profile switching based on WiFi network being one. Most of the things CM adds are sort of obvious to me and I often wonder why they aren't just part of stock.

Fresh Pots

Do people think we'll get a port of the preview for the nexus 4 anytime soon or at all?

Zascar

I'd love to play with this but I have a HTC One M7. I'm hoping someone make a Rom with this version - that would finally give me a reason to root. Is that likely any time soon?

5starpool

It looks very white. Not sure I'll like it from the screenshots I've seen so far.

Riesen_Meal

Zascar wrote: »

I'd love to play with this but I have a HTC One M7. I'm hoping someone make a Rom with this version - that would finally give me a reason to root. Is that likely any time soon?

I have an N5 but I couldn't use and unfinished ROM like that for a daily driver tbh....

marcbrophy

I used it for about 20 hours, before going to something called SlimKat that I saw mentioned by another user, I think in this thread.

TBH, L preview really isn't a daily driver at this stage in Dev, which is a bit sad, but I'm back on 4.4.4 now with this SlimKat and I'm really liking it.

Regarding L preview:
For those who like social media, Twitter won't open and FB has transparency issues if you open the comments.
My BOI app could open but FC'd after trying to register the account.
Calendar wouldn't open :pac:
Hotspot tethering would result in no active connection on the tethered device and then once you closed tethering, your device would no longer have an internet connection.
Swiftkey, plus I assume other keyboards that have a popup when buttons are held, would have transparency issues.

That's just a few bad points that I remember.

There's also the positives of course:
I really liked the card overlay of active programs, it just needs a close all button!
When charging, if you activated the lock screen, down the bottom it would show how long left until fully charged in minutes or hours if above 1.
Conversely, when you checked the battery page during discharging, it would estimate how long you had left until the battery dies.
I liked the notifications. Both in the lock screen and the new pull down bar.

I'm guessing that they may have more previews as time goes on, so I'll be eager to check them out as they progress towards the finished article.

Ste-

This is a developer preview. lots of things are going to be broken for your favorite apps.

marcbrophy

Ste- wrote: »

This is a developer preview. lots of things are going to be broken for your favorite apps.

Yes and I was pointing out the things which I found to be broken...

IrishStuff09

Agreed, it is a developer preview and has bugs.

For me, I've it on the nexus 7 and don't mind the odd bug, although it is very stable for me.
I wouldn't however, flash it on my phone due to the fact that I also need my phone for, the stoke age features like calling and texting too.

It's not too bad on the nexus 7 though, and I'm enjoying it, so far

AlanS181824

For anyone wanting to try out the beautiful new Android L Keyboard here's an app from the PlayStore!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.shenye.android.inputmethod.latin

Works from Android 4.0+ too!

I really like it and I'm super excited for this OS!

marcbrophy

IrishStuff09 wrote: »

Agreed, it is a developer preview and has bugs.

For me, I've it on the nexus 7 and don't mind the odd bug, although it is very stable for me.
I wouldn't however, flash it on my phone due to the fact that I also need my phone for, the stoke age features like calling and texting too.

It's not too bad on the nexus 7 though, and I'm enjoying it, so far

Wish I could try it on my N7, but mine is the smelly 2012 model :pac:

Mimikyu

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Ste-

Looks like the N7 (2012) will be getting L. Didn't think it would.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/07/01/android-l-preview-source-code-going-live-aosp-includes-support-nexus-4-5-7-2013-10/

homer911

I see the Nova Launcher has been updated to add L style functions..

Zascar

Is it any good? I downloaded a few of those L type notification apps but they were annoying and rubbish so I uninstalled

Mimikyu

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AlanS181824

Captain Morgan wrote: »

Android 4.4.99 confirmed :pac:

Looks like Android L which is supposed to be 5.0 so I wonder what's this.

Sonics2k

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Looks like Android L which is supposed to be 5.0 so I wonder what's this.

That's just the current Beta build, aka Google gently winding the world up.

On topic.

Chome Beta has been updated with the Material Design look and... well I love it so far! Trying it for the last few hours, runs smooth and looks much much nicer, despite the seemingly minimal changes. Overall, just a much neater look and feel.

Story and APK here on Android Police or you can get it on the Play Store.

IrishStuff09

Some screenshots of the latest L preview on Nexus 7.
http://imgur.com/a/S92TS

AlanS181824

Decided to take the plunge and downloading.

Android Lollipop is currently being installed

marcbrophy

Is the final L preview like a Release Candidate, as opposed to the initial preview, which was like a Pre-Alpha?

I'm so used to slimkat on my N5 now, that I don't think I could handle the bigger font size on L preview, or even full release of 5.0
Maybe I can use Rom Toolkit or something to change the dpi settings!

Ste-

Why not try it with multi-boot see how you like it.

kingtiger

marcbrophy wrote: »

that I don't think I could handle the bigger font size on L preview, or even full release of 5.0
Maybe I can use Rom Toolkit or something to change the dpi settings!

use Xposed framework with Xposed Gel settings, it works perfectly

Ste-

kingtiger wrote: »

use Xposed framework with Xposed Gel settings, it works perfectly

No Xposed on ART.

kingtiger

Ste- wrote: »

No Xposed on ART.

oh sh1te yeah, I am just using a ROM with all the added L features

AlanS181824

Found this interesting bug on Lollipop regarding WiFi settings.



Hardly just a formatting issue on the Nexus 7 though?

marcbrophy

Ste- wrote: »

Why not try it with multi-boot see how you like it.

Oh yeah, haven't used multi-boot since an Xperia X10i.
Think it was dual-boot back then

I'll look into that, thanks