If a recent sighting in the Android SDK Manager is anything to go by, then the Android community is close to seeing Android 5.1.1 Lollipop, which is expected to fix the issues that the 5.1 version was not able to repair.
Android 5.1.1 Lollipop shows up as a significant Platform SDK update in the Android SDK Manager, which suggests its looming arrival on the Android Open Source Project, thus making flash images and over the air updates for Nexus handsets. However, this remains to be uncorroborated.
All the same, users who updated to the new operating system, may it be the 5.0 build or the more recent 5.1 version, badly need a patch to eliminate the annoyingly persistent memory leak problem that gobbles up storage space. It's just that some bugs are too hard to pin down and at times, the updates themselves are unable to remove them without bringing new ones. Google is simply fixing the updates immediately after trouble is spotted so users who have them will no longer be stressed, and the ones to get them next will not go through the same inconvenience and hassle.
Speaking of which, many Android devices have yet to make a jump to the Android 5.0 Lollipop, let alone the Android 5.1. Even so, Google so often focuses on making new builds (it is actually working on the fourth form of the software) rather than scraping smartphones off its long list.
Whatever Google has planned, it is best to watch it unfold. For now, media outlets are convinced that Android 5.1.1 Lollipop is in testing and it will be arriving to Nexus devices anytime soon. Notably, this will also mark the Nexus 9's official transition from Android 5.0 to 5.1 Lollipop.
