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Google's planned Android L release, revealed Wednesday at the Google I/O Conference, will give developers a smorgasbord of new capabilities to work with, including a faster runtime and enhancements for battery life and visual effects.

Featuring more than 5,000 APIs, Android L supports 64-bit processing, bringing Android to parity with Apple's iOS 7. And it's designed to run across a wide range of devices, not just smartphones and tablets.

Google has also rethought Android's user appeal with its "material design" style that incorporates advanced graphics capabilities via Google's Polymer, a Web component framework for building HTML design elements for use across mobile and desktop devices. Screen elements can expand, reform, and reshape intelligently, and animations can run at 60 frames per second.

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