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The Best of Android Lollipop in 8 GIFs

By Eric Limer Published November 3, 2014

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Android Lollipop has been around as a developer preview for months, but the real version—complete with all its new Material Design tricks—just started rolling out. Here are a few GIFs to hold you over until it shows up on your phone.

A lot of the new look depends on app makers (and Google) updating to the new material design guidelines, but there’s plenty of freshness in the basic skeleton of the OS too.

New notification panel

Settings that fade when you adjust your brightness

A better lockscreen camera shortcut

Tap to wake on the Nexus 9 (and other devices that support it)

New end-of-scroll animations (and a new look for Gmail)

New multitasking view, with different windows for different Chrome tabs

Multiple user profiles

And lovely new animations

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