While handset OEMs are busy upgrading their smartphones to Android 5.0
Lollipop as well as the recently announced Android 5.1 Lollipop,
an incremental update dubbed Android 5.1.1 has been spotted in the
Android SDK Manager.
First reported by Android Police, Android SDK Platform 5.1.1 is available as an incremental Platform
SDK update in the Android SDK Manager. With the update spotted here, we
can expect the source code might land on Android Open Source Project (AOSP) soon, and factory images
and OTA updates for Nexus devices be released thereafter.
Android
5.1.1 Lollipop is primarily anticipated to bring a fix for the memory leak
issue, a bug that has plagued Android 5.0 Lollipop users and even haunted
some users on Android 5.1 Lollipop.
To recall, the "Memory leak
still present on Android 5.1" issue was reported on the AOSP issue tracker by some users in March and was
thereafter marked as fixed internally by Google. However, at that point
no time-frame for release was provided by the company.
The memory
leak issue in Android 5.0 Lollipop was first reported back in November
and only after the release of Android 5.0.1 update in early December did a Google
project member in late-December mark the issue for 'Future Release'.
Considering that some users who recently updated to Android 5.1 Lollipop
are still reporting the issue, an update is still required to fix it. We can
now expect the incremental update Android 5.1.1 to be released in the coming days or weeks and bring a fix for the
issue.
Google had last month announced
the Android 5.1 Lollipop update that introduced some new features
such as support for multiple SIM cards, Device Protection and HD voice
on compatible devices with the update.
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