I am a developer and I came across this forum while researching user experience on Lolliflop, specifically owners of the nexus 9 as it's the only device currently sold with Lolliflop.
I created a user account just to respond to this post and to clarify something that you as a user do not seem to be aware of. So lets clear it up! The nexus 9 in terms of hardware alone may be a finished product but taken as a whole, including the operating system, it is far from a finished product. Why? because Loliflop itself is not a finished product. I thought this was obvious due to the delay in rolling Lolliflop out to the previous generation of Nexus devices and the delayed launch of the nexus 6.
You may think that most of the app related issues that you are experiencing are due to developers not updating their apps, but in most cases you would be wrong. The changes to the platform require developers to use a library known as the appcompat library to maintain compatiability between existing os versions and Lolliflop. That library is provided by Google and currently has a lot of bugs. So in an attempt to update and support Lolliflop as well as providing new features to older os versions, what ends up happening is that the apps in question will fail.......crash, due to bugs in the library.
Some of these problems can be resolved by developers but not all of them and the remaining problems being left to the platform maintainers to resolve(Google). Unfortunately this problem also effects non Loliflop devices as updating to use the newest compatibility library provided by Google will introduce bugs to existing os versions. You can view the issues yourself
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code.google.com/p/android/issues/list.
The following link;
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code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=78377
is a link to a very particular issue that was introduced by Samsung on Samsung devices running 4.2.2. I have been following this issue for a while because it is a problem that effects my apps. Read through the comments in the issue and you will be able to get a better idea of what is going on with Lolliflop and keep in mind that it is just one of many issues