Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Now on Tap is the coolest Android feature in a long time – Google I/O 2015”.
Hey this is dieter with The Verge and we’re here at Google i/o 2015 and we’re taking a look at now on tap, which is the new feature from Google for the Android M primary and it’s really wild. It basically lets Google search inside any app and give you Google now cards. So here’s an example that Google has running out a demo, a chat where someone’s asking about pitch-perfect. So I can hold my finger down on the home button.
It reads the screen, searches for it and then gives me cards so here’s a card on Anna Kendrick. I can go right into the IMDB app to get more information about her. If I just want to go see pitch perfect, because, obviously that’s what I want to do right now, I can go right into Flixter to go and get information about the movie and where I can play it and so on.
So that’s pretty cool. There’S a bunch of other examples, so you can even use an Instagram photo and you can see it says grub gardens. So if we were to pull their finger down there, it gives me a location I can call them. I can navigate to them.
Here’S a tweet and it mentions an author, Walter Isaacson, the whole done now on tap. It reads through the thing what’s interesting here: oh there’s a dude named Walter Isaacson. What books did he write? Well, there is Walter. I can see jobs. You know I wrote that book and so on. So that’s pretty cool, so basically any app inside Android M. You can hold down the home button and search for what the contents of the app is. It gives Google an advantage because it gets to know what’s inside apps, but really for you. It’S awesome. You can do all kinds of stuff way faster and not have to cut and paste between apps and that’s actually really exciting.
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