The beauty of Android: features of custom Lollipop ROMs that could have made stock Android 5.0 better

The beauty of Android: features of custom Lollipop ROMs that could have made stock Android 5.0 better

The latest iteration of Android is certainly better than KitKat in many ways. As usual, however, one can easily think of ways that would have made the latest version of the OS even better and would have probable shortened the list of the gripes we have with Lollipop, which we otherwise love and cherish on a daily basis.

Guess what, these features exist and they really seem to be making one of the more stable Android versions even better and way more functional, user-friendly, and... "Android-y". The truth, however, is that these can be found in the features list of some custom, Lollipop-based ROMs that are available for certain 'Droid machines.

We picked some of the better ones from various custom ROMs and compiled a feature list that would have made vanilla Lollipop way more head-turning and captivating than it currently is. Check them out:

Custom theme support

Material Design is captivating, but some users are not that keen on white menu backgrounds. Even more, some might be looking forward to slightly altering the looks of the interface. While this is possible neither in Lollipop nor in any previous stock version of Android, custom ROMs that come with CyanogenMod's Theme Engine allows users to download a UI theme from the Play Store, apply it and voila, change the cosmetic looks of their UI. Simple as that. Many Android fans would have probably commended Google if Lollipop came right out of the box with similar theme support, but alas. Read more here