If you want a little taste of Android L without the bugs and instability that come with Google’s preview releases, you can start by checking out its awesome new keyboard, which is now available on almost any Android-powered device running Ice Cream Sandwich or later.

A third-party developer has extracted the keyboard APK from an official Android L preview build and made it available to download from Google Play. It’s free, has no ads, and does not require root. Having used it a lot over the past few days, I can confirm it’s surprisingly stable.

According to a report from Ars Technica, Google will not allow OEMs to customize the three new flavors of Android it announced last week at I/O: Android Wear, Auto and TV.

According to David Burke, Engineering Director at Google, the UI is a part of the product and they want to deliver a very consistent user experience this time.

Less than 24-hours after Google officially announced a shedload of new products, features and functionality it’ll be adding to its rapidly-growing Android ecosystem in the coming weeks, the search engine giant has now uploaded the first batch of companion applications to the Play Store for us to download and acquaint ourselves with — even though the actual goods aren’t available just yet.

Earlier this month, Google had unveiled the Project Tango development tablet costing a whopping $1024. The tablet comes with a multitude of sensors and cameras allowing it to see the world around it in 3D.

Google gave the attendees at I/O a look at the development Project Tango tablet in action and also revealed that it would be releasing a consumer version of the tablet with LG — slated to go on sale sometime next year. 

Google has started rolling out a hefty new update to the Google Search app for Android that brings with it a major new feature: OK Google hotword detection from any screen including your secure lockscreen.