Android L 5.0 is one of the biggest Android updates in a long time. Android L also introduces several new notifications features, new lockscreen notifications and a greater variety of ways notifications are displayed throughout the OS. Speaking Google I/O earlier this year, Senior VP for Android and Apps, Sundar Pichai, said: “This is one of the most compressive releases we’ve done, it has about 5,000 new APIs and we are thinking about L release not only for mobile, but for form factors beyond mobile.