free download system android lollipop Run Android 5.0.2 Lollipop on Your PC with AndEX Live CD. Arne Exton had the pleasure of informing Softpedia about its brand-new Android-based Live CD operating system that allows anyone to run the latest Android 5.0.2 “Lollipop” on desktop or laptop computers. The distribution uses Arne’s special 3.10.58-exton-android-+, which includes support for the NTFS file system, as well as some extra drivers. While the well-known Android x86 project already offers a live operating system based on ’s Android mobile operating system, which is used on all sorts of mobile devices worldwide, the AndEX project brings the game of running Android on PCs to a new level, as it uses the recent Android 5.0.2 Lollipop OS instead of the old 4.4 Kit Kat one. “Lollipop 5.0.2 is the latest version of the Android mobile operating system developed by Google. I call my remaster of it AndEX Lollipop Live CD. It uses ​my​ special kernel 3.10.58-exton-android-x86+ with some extra features. I.e. extra drivers and NTFS read/write support. You can download the ISO file for free.” says Arne Exton. This Android x86 Live CD is available for download for free. AndEX includes all Android’s standard applications (, , , etc.), and some extra tools designed to offer you a unique experience. For example, it is extremely easy to install new applications by using the pre-installed Aptoide App Store utility. Two different launchers are also provided in this new iteration of the Android x86 project. Of course, you can download the AndEX (Android) x86 Lollipop Live CD right now from Softpedia, for free. Please note that the distribution will only run on selected hardware, such as fairly new or modern desktop/laptop computers. It doesn’t play well with virtualization software, such as Oracle VirtualBox. The operating system can be used from either a CD or USB media. AndEX. A Live CD operating system that lets you run the latest version of the Android OS. AndEX is a commercial, fast, powerful, and easy-to-use computer operating system built around an Android x86 system (Lollipop 5.1.1) and designed from the ground up to allow you to run/test the Android mobile operating system on a laptop or desktop computer. Distributed as a 32-bit Live CD, includes several boot options. The AndEX operating system is currently distributed as a Live CD ISO image that has approximately 588 MB in size and has been engineered to run on both 32 and 64-bit systems, despite the fact that it uses the x86 (32-bit) Android OS. The Live DVD sports a regular boot prompt from where users will be able to start the operating system without installing it, run the live system in VESA (safe graphics) or debug modes, as well as to install the OS on the local disk drive. First time setup process and installed applications. Before accessing the Android system, users are asked to select a Home app immediately after the system boots. You will be able to choose between L Launcher or Trebuchet. That’s it, now you will be able to use the Android OS just like you would use it on a or tablet device. Store is the main application manager in AndEX, which also includes the GAPPS (Google Apps) package. It appears to include all the stock Android applications, such as the Google Chrome web browser, Google Calendar, Google Maps, the stock Android web browser, as well as the Email, Clock, Calculator, Phone, Navigation, , Gallery, Messaging, and File Manager apps. In addition, AndEX includes the Aptoide App Store that allows users to install more apps, and many other useful apps, including Advanced Facebook, Nature Live Wallpapers, Bulmedia Gallery, WeLine, YourMap, RSS Reader, WiFi Analyzer, , Speech Recorder, Terminal Emulator, and Like. Bottom line. In conclusion, AndEX proves to be a good competitor for the Android x86 operating system, which is currently based on the Android 5.1.1 Lollipop mobile OS from Google. Unfortunately, it will only run on modern, powerful computers, as old hardware components are not currently supported. Android 5.0 Lollipop official: what you need to know. It started life as Android L preview in June, but it has since matured into a full-blown release, ready to hit millions of Android devices over the next weeks and months. Android 5.0 Lollipop is here! In a blog post published minutes ago, Google announced the biggest update to Android since Ice Cream Sandwich, a major change that is reflected in the version jump to Android 5.0. We’ve spent ages on Android 4.x and jumping to 5 marks the beginning of a new era in the history of our favorite operating system. Most of the changes and new features in Android 5.0 have been introduced with the L preview, available on the and (2013). Expectedly, there are some small changes and surprises in the retail release, however. Here’s a brief look at what’s new in Android 5.0 Lollipop and stay tuned for more in-depth coverage in the following hours. Visual changes in Android 5 Lollipop. When booting up an Android Lollipop device, most users will be struck by the visual changes first. Android 5.0 brings many refinements to a that’s quite mature at this point, with many small changes rather than radical departures from the past. Some of the most visible updates are the revamped navigation bar, which now features the more abstract triangle-circle-rectangle icon set, and the status bar, which can now be colored or transparent (depending on the app) and features refreshed status icons. The lockscreen now displays rich notifications instead of just icons, which include details about the message – it should make quickly checking or game notifications easier and faster than before. Speaking of notifications, there’s now heads-up mode, which we’ve seen activated in CM and other custom ROMs – this feature basically shows you a rich floating notification on top of whatever you’re doing on the phone, and lets you check and dismiss it without interrupting your activity. The also now gives you access to the caller through a rightward swipe. Multitasking has been refreshed, and is now focused on documents instead of apps, meaning that you can have more than one card for each app – for instance, you could have a card and a separate card for sharing through Gmail that won’t disrupt your original Gmail card. The activity cards themselves are now arranged in 3D, with a smooth rolodex-style animation. The quick settings received a refresh and got some new features, like Do Not Disturb mode and adaptive auto-brightness. There are many other smaller changes throughout the UI that we’ll be detailing soon. . Google launched Material Design as the new “official” design language for apps and the web. Material takes its name from the metaphor of a magical piece of paper that can change color, size, and shape instantly, existing in a space that has a Z-axis (depth), not just length and width. Material is all about clean typography, bold and bright colors, and restrained, but delightful animations. We’ve already seen many examples of Material design in action, and Google will probably update its major apps to meet the guidelines soon. New features in Android 5 Lollipop. There’s a multitude of small features and under-the-hood changes that should enhance the user experience and open new avenues for app developers to offer new and delightful experiences. Do Not Disturb Mode, keyboard selection icon in the nav bar, smarter battery consumption and charging estimates, RAW image support, better accessibility features are just a few of the small improvements to the feature set of Android 5.0 Lollipop. Developer features. Developers can look forward to a much needed revamp of the Android Camera API, which will make it easier to support features like burst mode and fine settings tuning, OpenGL ES 3.1 support, smarter power management features, improved microphone latency and more. In fact, under the hood there are more than 5,000 new for developers to take advantage of! Android 5.0 Lollipop update. Android 5.0 Lollipop will come loaded on the , and the new . What about older devices? The , 5, 7, 10 and all Google Play Edition devices will be among the first products to see the update. No exact timeframe for when that will happen, other than the “weeks to come”. If we had to take a guess, we’d say early November, but that’s really just speculation on our part. For a full rundown of Android 5.0 Lollipop, be sure to check out Google’s official page! Update: Here’s the full change-log fr0m Google, if you still haven’t heard enough: Android 5.0 Lollipop Review. Android 5.0 Lollipop is Google’s latest big update of its mobile operating system. It succeeds Android 4.4 KitKat and will probably be the last major change we see to the Android OS until well into 2015. Android Lollipop is the future of Google-powered devices, in other words, but is it worth getting excited about? We’ve been testing Android 5.0 on the Nexus 9 tablet, one of the devices that launched with the software. Here’s why we think it has masses of potential… Android 5.0 Lollipop – Material Interface. Having used Android 5.0 Lollipop for a while now, we think perhaps the most significant change for now is the way the software looks. Not every change made offers a dramatic shift in the way Android feels, but the design of the interface does. Google calls this new design ‘Material’, and aside from freshening up the look, it’s meant to add “Responsive, natural motion, realistic lighting and shadows.” First, let’s take a look at the new design. Here are the home screens: You’ll notice everything is looking familiar, but a little different. Google has redesigned the soft keys – which now have a PlayStation-like flavour – and the Google app icons are different now. It’s innocuous stuff, but tells you a lot about the aesthetic direction the system is heading in. Android 5.0 Lollipop is all about friendly curves and friendly shapes that have no intrinsic or obvious relationship with technology. They’re a circle, a square and a triangle: you don’t get much more basic than that. We assume the idea is that they’re friendly compared with the rather more complicated soft keys of Android 4.4 KitKat. Despite their simplicity, the functions of two are pretty obvious even to relative technophobes. The triangle already forms an arrow sign, and the circle is just like the Home button on an iPhone. When in doubt, copy Apple. Apple calls the one on the right Overview these days, but it has much the same function as before: it brings up the multi-tasking menu. The movement of the homescreens has changed. The animations are a bit less severe, with greater variance in their speeds and a greater sense of inertia. Android 5.0 Lollipop is all about shaving off that geeky exterior Android is still seen as having in some quarters. You’re also likely to see a whole lot of the two headline backgrounds of Android 5.0. These are designed to look as though they’re made from real materials with clever use of textures. Once again, it’s a step away from the sharp technical refinement that has been more a clearer visual feature in previous Android UI elements. These backgrounds are still precise and geometric, but the textures are intended to ground them in the physical, not just digital. SEE ALSO: iPhone 6 Plus vs Nexus 6. It’s not so much ‘less geek, more chic’, but ‘less geek, more family-friendly’. Its no wonder Google has opted for this style, with tablets such as the TrustedReviews Award-winning Tesco Hudl 2 plugging away at family buyers hard. Is the new look good? Yes, it’s great. We already liked the interface used in some Android 4.4 phones, though, including the Nexus 5 and 2014. The use of the real-time shadows and lighting promised on Google’s website is pretty subtle, too. Those expecting jaw-dropping visual flashiness may be disappointed by this lack of bravado. Where you see the these live shadows most obviously is in the multi-tasking menu, which, as usual, is accessed using the right (square) soft key. Multi-tasking has gone 3D, folks, and each pane casts its own shadows. These are ‘design’ shadows rather than realistic ones, mind, and again are pretty diffuse. We like the look. SEE ALSO: Nexus 9 vs iPad mini 3. Android 5.0 Lollipop – Apps Menu. How about the apps menu? From a basic design perspective it’s very similar to the Google Now interface seen in the Nexus 5. Widgets no longer have a place here – a good move given how little most of us actually fiddle with the things once we’ve discovered a couple we like. The most obvious difference is that the translucent style of previous versions of Android has been dropped in favour of a simpler, more practical white background. It looks like your apps are being displayed on pieces of plain paper, with a bit of the home screen wallpaper visible around the edges to stop your Android 5.0 apps menus from looking too boring. SEE ALSO: iPad Air 2 vs Nexus 9. This gets rid of any legibility issues caused by clashing colours between wallpapers and app icons. Android 5.0 Lollipop also seems to darken any white or near-white app icons to make sure there’s still a good amount of contrast for those without 20/20 eyeballs. At every turn Android Lollipop is out to foster accessibility for an extremely wide audience. Android 5.0 Lollipop – New Lock Screen. A new look only gets you so far, though. Perhaps our favourite addition to Android 5.0 Lollipop is the new notifications system of the lock screen. When there are no notifications to see, the lock screen is pretty simple. You get a clock and, if charging, a handy little ticker telling you how long it’ll be until the battery’s full. Receive a new notifications and they stack up as little white rectangles, not entirely unlike the cards of Google Now. Up to five are shown at once, the rest stacking up underneath. You can open up the lot if you like, without leaving the lock screen. Tapping one of these notifications naturally takes you to the relevant app – they work just as you’d hope. These kinds of notifications are nothing new, of course, but it’s good to see them so well implemented in the standard version of the system. It’s also important to note you can disable this feature if you’re worried about people seeing what’s happening on your tablet/phone. Android 5.0 Lollipop – Feature Toggles. Just as lock screen notifications are things we’ve seen in custom interfaces already, Android 5.0 Lollipop adopts the dropdown home screen menu feature and brightness toggles we’ve seen in other Android phones for ages. You may not notice it’s there at first, though. As usual, you swipe down from the top of the screen to bring down the standard notifications menu. Then you swipe down again to pull down the feature controls panel. This panel is non-customisable, but gets you access to most basics: Brightness slider Wi-Fi toggle Aeroplane mode Auto-rotate Flashlight Location Cast screen (for ) Curiously enough, there’s no silent mode. Instead, pressing the volume buttons brings up a little on-screen menu that lets you choose to silence all notifications – just non-important ones – indefinitely or for a selected number of hours. We imagine using this might take a bit of getting used to, but it’s a neat idea that might otherwise have been relegated to the Settings menu. It’s basically a Do Not Disturb mode, brought to the surface. Saying that, there’s also a timed Do Not Disturb feature in Settings that lets you determine hours when only priority contacts can get through. Android 5.0 Lollipop – Gmail and Calendar. Google hasn’t launched any major new services with Android 5.0 Lollipop, but it has given some of the existing ones a bit of an app spruce-up. It’s also the first version of Android to launch with the app. This relatively little-discussed app launched in April 2014, and lets you make Powerpoint-style documents. You also get the new pre-installed. This is Google’s answer to Apple HealthKit, and lets you track your exercise, by either manually inputting it or using compatible health monitors. It’s fairly limited, and doesn’t seem to support heart-rate information, just weight and activity. It’s no better than most other tracking apps, and a good deal worse than some. There’s some more work for Google to do here. Back to the stuff most people will actually use. Google Mail and Calendar have been given a slight revamp in line with Android 5.0 Lollipop’s look, although we should state that at this point Google apps are actually quite separate from the Android system. It’s perfectly possible that you’ll have an Android 5.0 device with an older version of Gmail and co. Android 5.0 Lollipop – Profiles and Guest Mode. Android tablets have had multiple profiles for a while, but Android 5.0 Lollipop sees the feature come to phones. It lets you setup multiple areas for, most likely, different members of the family, each with access to different apps if necessary. When you setup these profiles, you can choose whether they have access to a restricted range of apps, or can choose to download and use whatever they like. There’s also a brand-new Guest mode, which you might want to think of as a temporary profile. This simply loads the apps preinstalled on your device – the Google suite, basically – and gets rid of your account information so people playing with your shiny new phone/tablet won’t stumble onto anything you don’t want them to find. It’s a nice embarrassment-saver. Android 5.0 Lollipop – Cross-Platform Support. While Android 5.0 Lollipop doesn’t offer particularly jazzed-up fitness features thanks to the currently quite limited Fit app, it does offer improved cross-device interaction. Google says you’ll be able to start something on one device and carry it on with another. Obvious uses for this include carrying on web searches or watching films when switching between phone and tablet, although devs are sure to come up with some wearable application before too long. We should stress this isn’t a feature we’ve had direct experience of yet because there just aren’t the Android 5.0 devices around at the time of writing. Android 5.0 Lollipop – Performance. Android 5.0 makes some important style changes that should help make at least Nexus devices a mite more attractive for the mainstream buyer. However, for the enthusiasts who regularly read sites like ours, what’s going on in the background is arguably more interesting. The new software makes a few very important changes, although for the most part they are elements that will affect the future of the system rather than things we can see in action from using a Nexus 9 or Nexus 6. First, Android 5.0 switches from using the runtime to ART. What this means is the way data is compiled to run an app is different, and it’s intended to both speed-up loading apps and switching between them. Our experiments with switching between ART and DALVIK (you can do it in Android KitKat devices with a simple Settings menu fiddle) show a very slight improvement. However, as the Nexus 9 isn’t actually as slick as we were hoping at launch, there is effectively no performance improvement that you’ll notice in day-to-day use. Android still isn’t as smooth and quick as iOS. We hope this will improve in coming months as we did find performance slightly disappointing. Android 5.0 also offers native support for 64-bit system architectures, which we’re starting to see appear with processors like the Nexus 9’s Nvidia Tegra K1. There’s a perception that 64-bit is only really needed if to bung more than 4GB into a phone, but in fact existing 32-bit architectures can use that – the Snapdragon 805 has a memory address extension that means it can make use of more memory than a ‘standard’ 32-bit system. The real benefits of 64-bit aren’t that simple. While it also depends on the chipsets themselves, 64-bit architectures open up the possibility for much more data to be juggled at one time. It’s part of the reason why the dual-core chipsets of the iPhone 6 and Nexus 9 are able to offer such power while having just a quarter the number of cores compared to other top-end mobile devices. Another great sign for the future is native OpenGL 3.1 support. This is the latest version of the graphics standard, and opens-up the possibility for even better graphics in the future for Android games. Should I be excited about Android 5.0 Lollipop? Android 5.0 Lollipop is a big release that means a lot for Google. It’s crucial to the technical development of the platform, especially with it rapidly moving to wearable devices through Android Wear. However, we’re not convinced anyone chomping at the bit to get an Android 5.0 update is necessarily going to see any dramatic changes unless manufacturers ease off with their own custom interfaces. After all, a great many phones already have the style of custom feature toggles on offer here. Seen on a Nexus device – or perhaps one of Motorola’s Moto-series ones – Android 5.0 is a solid improvement, if not an essential one. Verdict. Android 5.0 Lollipop may not mean a great deal to phones with heavily customised interfaces, but it unlocks loads of future potential. Why Android Lollipop Will Change Your Digital Life Forever. Android is getting a whole lot sweeter with the release of Lollipop. We already knew that the new Android 5.0 operating system for mobile devices looks great, thanks to a preview at this year's Google I/O. Its interface might even be as good as (or better than) the iPhone's iOS 8. If you're an Android user with a Galaxy, an HTC, a , or a Nexus, here are the answers to some frequently asked questions about upgrading to Lollipop. When can I upgrade? It started rolling out last week to Google Play and Nexus devices (Nexus 4, 5, 7, and 10). Google's just-announced flagship phone and tablet, the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 by Motorola and HTC, respectively, can run Android Lollipop immediately. Next up will be the Motorola devices, Moto X, Moto G, Moto G with 4G LTE, , and Droid phones in the coming weeks. Some of the 2nd generation Moto G and Moto X have already received the upgrade. The HTC One M7 and M8 update will be released within 90 days, according to this HTC executive. LG announced that Lollipop will arrive on the LG G3 sometime in the fourth quarter, which ends Dec. 31. After that, Android 5.0 will roll out to most Android devices, but no official word yet from Samsung. How do I upgrade? — First, back up your device's data. When Android Lollipop becomes available for your device, you should be able to update wirelessly. For most devices, head to the Settings app, click on "About Phone" or "About Tablet," and then tap "Software update" or "Check for updates." If a new version is detected, you will be able to download Lollipop right away. Your device will probably need a WiFi connection. Older Samsung devices may need to be connected to a computer with a software called Kies installed. Why do I need it? — There are three major reasons why we love Lollipop: 1. It's rocking a beautiful new interface that Google calls Material Design. 2. The same operating system works across multiple devices (tablets, phones, TVs, and smart watches, so now all your tech will work together seamlessly). 3. There's a new battery-saver feature that extends your device's survival by 90 minutes. Other notable features include a "guest user mode" that allows friends or family to use your device with a separate login. They won't be able to see your stuff. A new Priority Mode (activated with the device's volume button) allows only certain people and notifications to get through to you. Android 5.0 improves performance by up to four times. Android TV with Lollipop allows watchers to voice search Google Play, YouTube, and other apps. A tap-and-pay system to manage multiple payment apps and rival Apple Pay will also run on Lollipop.