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Material Design in 2014 was just the beginning — now the good stuff really begins

2014 has been a year filled with fantastic things for the mobile world. Samsung is exploring aluminum casing, Motorola's crazy custom backplates got even more creative, and two different phones running Cyanogen OS have been launched as legitimate commercial products. Android as a platform has continued to grow dramatically, and this time next year a handful of us will wonder how we even managed to use infotainment systems in vehicles before Android Auto was a thing. It's been exciting to see the hardware grow and change at such an incredible pace, but in my opinion the coolest thing about Android in 2014, the thing worth getting truly excited about, has been the dramatic shift in software.

source: androidcentral