What's new in Android 5.0
- Android 5.0 brings Material design to Android and gives you an expanded UI toolkit for integrating the new design patterns easily in your apps.
- New 3D views.
- Built-in activity transitions.
- Android now runs exclusively on the new ART runtime.
- Heads-up notification
- Advanced connectivity
- High-performance graphics
- New types of sensors.
- Read more about it here.
See the Changes from API 20 - API 21
Below are links for downloading the developer tools API level 21, offline, alternatively you can download from your SDK Manager.
Installation
Copy downloaded *.zip(s) in temp folder ~/../android-sdk/temp/*.zipOpen SDK Manager >> Check Downloaded SDK(s) >> Click Install.
Download Developer Tools, API - 21
SDK Platform API - 21 (Android SDK Platform 5.0)Android-21_r01.zip
ARM EABI v7a System Image, API - 21
Armv7a-21_r01.zip
Intel x86 Atom System Image, API - 21
Intel_x86_atom_r01.zip
Intel x86 Atom_64 System Image, API - 21
Intel_x86_atom_64_r01.zip
Google API for Maps, API - 21
Google_apis-21_r01.zip
ARM EABI v7a Google API(for Maps), API - 21
Google_APIs_ARM_EABI_v7a_r02.zip
Intel x86 Atom Google API(for Maps), API - 21
Google_APIs_Intel_x86_Atom_r02.zip
Intel x86 Atom_64 Google API(for Maps), API - 21
Google_APIs_Intel_x86_Atom_64_r02.zip
Samples for SDK - 21
Samples-21_r03.zip
Sources for Android SDK, API - 21
Sources-21_r01.zip
Android TV ARM EABI v7a System Image, API - 21
Android_tv_armv7a-21_r01.zip
Android TV Intel x86 Atom System Image, API - 21
Android_tv_Intel_x86_atom_r01.zip
Docs for Android SDK API - 21
(replace the docs folder, but, this will be of no use, please refer online)
~\..\android-sdk-windows\docs\ (Unzip files)
docs-21_r01.zip