The new build is only available for the Nexus Player

Apr 22, 2015 07:26 GMT  ·  By

Android 5.1 has been launched recently, and so far it hasn't made it to a lot of devices. However, manufacturers such as Motorola have every intention of offering it for their devices, and yesterday we told you the company initiated a soak test for Android 5.1 on the first-gen Moto X in Brazil.

But as it turns out, Android 5.1 is no longer Google’s hottest version. As reported a few weeks ago, evidence attesting to the existence of Android 5.1.1 surfaced online, and the new build was spotted in the Android SDK manager.

This weekend, we also told you Android 5.1.1 Lollipop was spotted in Google’s own Android audio latency info page running on the Nexus 7 and Nexus 9, so we assumed the two slates might be the first recipients of the new build.

Nexus Player is the first to get Android 5.1.1

By the looks of things, Google has already started rolling out the update and the first recipient to get the treatment is actually the Nexus Player.

A factory image for Android 5.1.1 (LMY47V) for the Android TV box has been made available for download from Google, and you can download it from Softpedia if you want by following the link above.

The source code for Android 5.1.1 is also being uploaded in the Android Open Source Project. It’s not unusual to see Nexus devices pick up the latest updates that Google rolls out, but it’s a little kooky that the Nexus Player got Android 5.1.1 ahead of the whole Nexus tablet/smartphone host.

At the moment, we’re not exactly sure what the new update will bring to the table in terms of changes, but given the fact that Google is calling it Android 5.1.1, it will probably consist of minor bug fixes and stability improvements.

What improvements will be coming along?

The new build probably fixes the camera timeout on the Nexus 5 and Nexus 6. But we are hoping for more here.

For example, a very well-known issue of Android 5.0 is the memory leak bug, and we have been hoping Google will solve the inconsistency with Android 5.1. But as we all know, this didn't happen.

The memory leak bug has been reported in the AOSP issue tracker and Google has already marked it as solved, saying that “This has been fixed internally.” So Android 5.1.1 could finally solve this problem.

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