Amazon releases Android Lollipop based Fire OS 5 developer preview


Fire OS 4 Sangria

Amazon has always believed in using a highly customized fork of Android called Fire OS on their line up of tablets and phones. Fire OS brings with it a completely different look and has a very different and in some ways superior feature set to stock Android when it comes to media consumption and more so from Amazon’s ecosystem. Today the company has released the first developer preview of their upcoming Fire OS 5 that is based on Android Lollipop.

Fire OS 4 was based on Android 4.4 which means that a fair number of newly released applications that targeted Android 5 weren’t running too well on Amazon’s hardware. This should be rectified with the new release based on Android 5.0. While the final release is still a ways off, the company has released a new dev preview today will let software developers test out their applications on the upcoming release to ensure compatibility.

Amazon Kindle Fire HD6 and HD7

A new App Testing Service launched by Amazon will also let developers test app compatibility with the upcoming OS release without requiring a physical device running Fire OS.

[Via – Android Police]


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