650 CHAPTER 16: The Future of Android: The 64-Bit Android 5.0 OS
Summary
In this sixteenth and final chapter, you learned about 64-bit Android 5.0 OS development. You
learned all about the new features and attributes of the Android 5.0 L OS released this summer at
the Google I/O show. Some think this OS will end up with the name “Lollipop,” while others think
that it will be named “Licorice.”
You updated the 0.8.0 SDK to 0.8.2, and you learned about some of the pitfalls of using a beta
version of the 64-bit OS version, which will certainly exist until this 64-bit OS and its IDEA are refined
as much as the 32-bit Android OS was between the years of 2010-2014, so expect a stable Android
5.x OS sometime during 2015 or 2016.
Then you learned about the newly-released Android TV platform, and you learned where to access
information regarding how to develop iTV set applications, as well as converting your very first
HelloAndroid5 Android 5.0 application to be Android-TV compatible using the AndroidManifest.xml
file. You learned how to designate the Android TV application as a game, so that it is listed in the
games section of the Google Play store instead of in the apps section. You learned how to create an
Android TV AVD and tested your Android TV app in that AVD.
I hope you have had a fun, insightful time during the lengthy journey that you have undertaken
through Android 4.4.4 and 5.0, including the Wear SDK and Android TV, through sixteen chapters
in this book! Be sure to check the Android 5 repository soon to see if the Auto SDK is available and
get started developing amazing Android 5 applications across nearly a dozen different consumer
electronics device type verticals! Android is taking over the consumer electronics industry! Have fun
and be sure to enhance your knowledge of UI and graphics in Android with my Pro Android UI and
Pro Android Graphics books, both from Apress! Happy developing!