Whether you like them straight out of the bag, roasted to a golden brown exterior with a molten center, or in fluff form, who doesn’t like marshmallows? We definitely like them! Since the launch of the M Developer Preview at Google I/O in May, we’ve enjoyed all of your participation and feedback. Today with the final Developer Preview update, we’re introducing the official Android 6.0 SDK and opening Google Play for publishing your apps that target the new API level 23 in Android Marshmallow.
Think twice before flashing this third Android 6.0 developer preview – you’ll need to reflash to a factory image once the final version is released.
And if the final version is anything like Lollipop was when it was released, you’ll probably reflash back to whatever you were previously using.
Yep. I always update to the bleeding edge and wanted to give Lollipop a chance but I’m finally downgrading my wife’s Nexus 4 back to 4.4. Battery life is atrocious and there are endless critical bugs like not being able to make or receive phone calls.
Doesn’t sound like the Nexus 4 will receive 6.0 so I guess it was abandoned with 4.4
Um… 5.1.1… My Nexus 4 had over the air Lollipop updates up to 5.1.1.
5.0 took a year to get good (with 5.1.1), so you’re right about that.
But since 6.0 looks more like 5.2, I think they’ll have a stable (if uninteresting) release.
And people complain about bugs and updates for IOS … android is not much better in that area.
Edited 2015-08-18 13:03 UTC
More importantly, have the fixed the memory leak?
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=170151
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=169747
Android 5.x is perhaps the most rushed and f*cked up release and all Android’s history. 9 months after 5.0 GA they still refuse to fix this issue. I cannot understand what happened to Android’s QA/QC. Really. Once I was proud of Android, now I’m utterly confused.
Also, most Nexus owners say that Android 5.x battery optimization is a pure myth, ’cause Android 4.x allowed to your device to last longer.
Edited 2015-08-17 19:36 UTC
Didn’t they already fix that in 5.1?
That leak was indeed fixed ages ago.
Hopefully you can follow the mentioned bug reports to see for yourself that this memory leak is not fixed in the latest release of Android which is 5.1.1.
Wikipedia’s Android Lollipop article also mentions this bug.
I can easily reproduce it here on my Nexus 5 phone (running vanilla Android 5.1.1 installed from scratch). In fact I have to reboot my phone every week because system memory use climbs through the roof (gets over 1,2GB of RAM) and everything slows down to a crawl.
Once I thought that at least Android users are more or less unbiased but now that I’ve received three downvotes in a matter of seconds it’s clear that Android fans are no less rabid than Apple fanatics.
Edited 2015-08-17 21:54 UTC
The original, actual bug is fixed. 100%. It’s gone. It no longer exists.
The bug you linked to is clearly a different one – the small number of reactions and zero public outcry (the complete opposite of the original leak) indicates that this is, indeed, a different bug that only affects a relatively small number of people.
Doesn’t make it any less annoying for those affected, but the point still stands: the original leak – which I also suffered from – has been fixed.
No memory leak is minor.
Most users have no idea how to report bugs, they have no idea what memory use it, they have no idea why their phone keeps slowing down over time.
These two bugs alone have over a hundred subscribers which means the remaining memory leak is no less severe than the resolved one, especially taking into consideration that by doing certain things you can kill your Nexus in a matter of seconds.
Marshmallow…. how embarrassing
Edited 2015-08-17 20:25 UTC
Someone would like a word with you:
http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/g-ent-111…
why is that embarrassing? What’s wrong with marshmallow?
It’s not just Marshmallow… it’s Kit Kat, Ice Cream Sandwich… The whole naming scheme is… well, embarrassing!
A three year old kid must be naming these… :/
Edited 2015-08-17 21:36 UTC
These monikers are unofficial.
In Android System Settings you see only a number. The official Android documentation also doesn’t contain any nicknames: https://support.google.com/nexus/?hl=en
Ha but when you unveil a statue with the the little droid holding a marshmallow turd… Its not really unofficial but a sanctioned moniker.
But Android developers at Google use the terms in public panels… that seems to be pretty much as big an endorsement as I need.
What is wrong with you? What happened in your childhood to drain you of happiness and deprive you of ever experiencing joy?
Not at all… I have three kids that fill me with love and joy!
I love that they use to (now 15,17,20) give things weird names… Doesn’t mean I’m going to name my software “gogogaga-ptptptptpt!”
Because naming things iSomething or using big cats codenames is sooooo much better, right? Or how about catchy names like Microsoft Hyper Ultra ProductName Mega Professional Edition?
I really don’t get what get people so worked up over names…
Its just weird as hell that you seem to think its really embarrassing to use deserts as code names. Would you be embarrassed to admit that you eat marshmallows, Kit kats, froyo, eclairs, or lollipops?
There is just nothing inherently embarrassing to most people about those things. They aren’t underwear names, porn star names or indicators of low intelligence or poor social standing. They’re joyful fun names that invoke that joy of eating deserts.
The way you dismiss them, its as if you eat wheat for desert.
Another update that 99% of users will never experience. Woohoo.
They will upgrade to 6.0, when they buy new Android phone. (a year or two from now)
Yes. But 6.0 with a skin over the top when 6.5 or 7.0 is the latest release version…
Android 5 still isn’t mainstream. There are plenty of 4.4 (even 4.2 devices) still being sold.
Its not mainstream because its not even a year old. Most people are on two year cycles for upgrades. People will get newer versions when they get newer devices.
Lollipop isn’t even installed on most new models.
How are you measuring most? Is it on the most common phones sold by the most popular oems sold in the developed world? Or are you looking at the volume of phones sold everywhere?
The question for developers is always, what is my market and what phones do they have? For most devs, the market is in the developed world ( read Europe, North America ) , and they tend to have Samsung, Apple, LG, Motorola, HTC. No xiaomi. No OnePlus, No huawei. The most popular phones by those manufacturers are getting new versions of android on new phones released.
What about OpenGL/ Vulkan updates ?
Watch SIGGRAPH presentations: http://www.nvidia.com/object/siggraph2015-best-gtc.html
Personally, I hate marshmallows. Vile concoctions.
I hate artisan hipster marshmallows. Those are as pretentious as they are terrible. But man those kraft marshmallows are from the angels. Mass produced perfection they are.