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                <p>An early look at the next release</p>
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               <p>Test and build your apps against the next<br />
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              Take advantage of all the new capabilities, which are focused on design and performance.
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                <p>A New UI Design</p>
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                  Create a consistent experience across mobile and the web with
                   material design, the new Google-wide standard.
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                <p>A Rehauled Runtime</p>
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                  Test your apps and get them ready for <b>ART</b> (<b>A</b>ndroid <b>R</b>un<b>t</b>ime),
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                   Get more control over where notifications appear,
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                  We've tuned the platform to be more energy efficient and
                  to give you more control over resource usage.
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            <div class="landing-h1">Get Your Apps Ready</div>
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             <p>You'll get the system images for the Nexus 5, Nexus 7 (v2),
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             access to all the APIs with a preview build of the SDK.
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            <p>Check out the getting started, developer guides, and reference documentation
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                    Join the community of Android developers testing out the L Developer Preview and
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                  Updates to the L Developer Preview are delivered
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