The company describes the update as a "quantum leap forward", thanks to its revamped design and new features.
Android already has an 84.7% share of global smartphone shipments, according to research company IDC.
But engineering chief, Hiroshi Lockheimer, told the BBC that among his team's goals was making
Android more appealing to the business sector.
"We've made a concerted effort around focusing on the enterprise-use case," he said.
"If you think about it most people only carry one device.
"The one device that they carry [should] work for various scenarios in their life -obviously for personal
use, but also if they want to use it for corporate purposes.
"We wanted to make sure that Lollipop is designed in such way that corporations are happy to endorse it."
One example of this, he said, was the ability for a user to have both a personal and work "personality" on a single device - and the ability to switch "seamlessly" between them.
The two personalities would let apps access different sets of stored data, allowing the user's employer to monitor the contents of one partition but not the other.
Android Lollipop will be made available for download to Nexus 5 phones and Nexus 7 tablets on Friday via the Android developers site.
It will also come pre-installed on the forthcoming Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 devices.
Other manufacturers and networks will have to test the software before they release it alongside updates of their own software for their machines.
Source: BBC
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