Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Top 10 Google I/O 2013 Announcements!”.
Hey what is up guys, I’m Kay PhD here and this year, wrapped up the sixth annual Google i/o 2013 conference in San Francisco California. There are a lot of awesome things that happens and also a lot of memorable things that didn’t happen that we expected to happen. But if you don’t want to watch the three hour-long keynote which I’ll include below the like button and if you want to watch the dozens of other hours of sessions, this video, while it might be a little bit long, is a condensed version of that. And without no further ado, we’re gon na go ahead and give you the top ten announcements from Google i/o 2013.
Alright Koki get it off at number. 10 was Android studio. Now this is a developer conference, so we got a respect that there are a lot of developers there and one of the things they showed off called Android studio was a really impressive sort of console, looking thing that allows developers to better manage rendering the size of Their applications for basically different screen sizes and different layouts in order to abide by androids design guidelines and it actually looked like a pretty cool thing. That’Ll help us see a lot more quality apps in the Play. Store.
Number 9. Is notification sync across devices, so maybe you have the same app installed on more than one device. They’Ll now be able to take advantage of this API. I swipe to dismiss an application in maybe an app called whatsapp on my tablet, and my phone will no longer display that notification either.
So if I have a whole conversation in some messaging app on one device – and I pick up the other one – I don’t want that notification anymore. So now that’s built in number. Eight is improvements to Google Chrome. A lot of people don’t know not only is Android the most popular mobile platform, but chrome is the most popular browser period.
So a lot of improvements went into chrome on both the desktop and mobile and the coolest thing about that. What they showed was a demo of this racing game that spanned across multiple devices, so they connected all the devices together, both iOS and Android devices alike, and each device had a player, and you touch your screen to control your race car across everyone else’s device, which Is really cool? The video moved from device to device the sound of your race car moved from device to device. It was really cool and was all going through. Google Chrome, something that people are probably never going to use, but definitely an awesome demo worthy feature anyway. Number seven: is the Google Play Music service? It’S now called Google Play Music, all access, which is a bit of a mouthful but I’ll just keep calling in google music for now, but it’s a subscription music service. So this puts Spotify on watch for $ 9.99 a month. You get unlimited access to all the songs in Google Play and including the ones you already uploaded, of course, and if you sign up before June 30, if you actually get it for $ 7.99 a month and you get a free 30-day trial, the service itself looks To be pretty awesome, and it might still be us only which is really unfortunate, because Google has a habit of not making their services internationally available, but nevertheless it’s pretty cool and the app itself is also really really good. I’Ve been using the app for the past couple of days and I’m going on a trip very soon, while I’ll be using the app on an airplane. So I’m making some playlists and everything like that. But it’s very smooth, very fluid. It allows you the ability to create a radio station based off of a specific song or playlist, and it just creates an endless playlist of songs for you and you can control the order of the queue and everything. But you know endless music discovery. That’S really what it should be all about, so Spotify, like I said, is on notice, because Google Play Music. All access has arrived number six. Is the new Google Plus now a lot of people say no one uses Google Plus and that’s fine if you think that, but Google Plus, whether you like it or not, is becoming a huge part of tying all the different services that Google has together. So your account, whether you post things or share things or not, is pretty critical and it’s gotten a whole UI refreshed a whole redesign, a very neat to multiple column cards layout on the desktops.
Now you won’t really be able to say you know it looks different on the desktop from the phone from the tablet. Now they all look the same and that multiple column UI and it also looks really good. You get that holo font to get some nice animations. You get some smooth scrolling, you get a whole bunch of different smart features where, if you automatically upload an album of photos as you go around on vacation, it automatically uploads them all in full resolution and you get to automatically enhance them and tag your friends faces In them and it’ll combine things together and make panoramas when it notices, you have certain pictures and it’ll automatically take the best photos that are in focus and when people are smiling and the sharpest best contrast once it’s very, very smart with your photos and gives you A basic highlight reel of all the best photos you took, so maybe you took six hundred photos on one trip. It’Ll give you a highlight reel of the best 50 of them based on what it thinks were awesome. So that’s pretty cool and, like I said there are some neat automatic features like automatic hashtags. So if you take a picture of say the Eiffel Tower, it’ll automatically add the hashtag Eiffel Tower to your post, so you can discover more posts that have that same thing. In them, so if you visit some cool landmarks, you’ll be able to see stuff like that very cool stuff.
Google has some awesome behind-the-scenes improvements using Google’s knowledge graph. Of course, number five is Google Play games. Google Play gaming is brand new. It’S basically really gaming focused in the Play Store and it uses app data sync across devices to make it happen. Now the live demo on stage didn’t really work so well, but basically this app data sync will allow you to have the same data inside every application across devices. Perfect example, let’s say have Angry Birds on my tablet and on my phone I get to level 30 of Angry Birds on my phone and I want to put it down and move over to the tablet. I install it on my tablet and I’m already on level 31. That’S how it works. You basically get the same achievements and the same unlock everything you had on one app on one device, we’ll move to that same app on a different device. There are also achievements and leaderboards among your google friends and there’s also multiplayer. So, what’s really cool is you could have three different people running? You know an iPhone and iPad and a nexus 10 and they could all race against each other and, like nudge, the person who’s playing their iPad by nudging, their car on your screen and they’ll be able to see you nudge their car on their iPad. It’S really cool the multiplayer gaming looks very, very neat and there’s a lot of games they’re gon na support that in the coming months. So that’s really neat. So Google Play games number five pretty solid up like upgrade I’d like where it’s going, even though I’m not a big gamer on mobile I’ll, probably be gaming more because of this service number for hangouts. It’S a multi-platform messaging service, you’ll get it on the web. You’Ll get it in iOS, so get it in Android, it’s almost everywhere, and now this was a very confusing announcement, because at first we didn’t know if it was replacing certain things or if it was just being added to the list of messaging services.
Google has but basically, over the next couple months, it’ll be slowly eating up and bringing into itself other Google messaging services. So right now the Android app will just replace Google Talk and once you get it working it’ll basically start the ability to have multi person comment. Threads and just hang out with people with text and with video and emojis and all sorts of crazy stuff and the app is very fast. It’S very fluid.
I’Ve been using it on Android and it’s really useful right now. There is no SMS support, but we’ve seen a variety of opinions on whether or not this will actually happen. I really hope it does, because if it does I’m messages in big trouble, but the bottom line is hangouts is now a thing. I had a separate explaining video on Google babble explained. Google babble was its codename when it was being developed by Google. So now that it’s a real thing, you can check out that video and basically get the gist of everything about Google’s hangouts app number.
Three. Is Google now improvements? Now Google now is one of the biggest selling points of Android. It’S one of the most awesome things in the Play Store. Now it’s on iOS and now it’s also in Chrome and a lot of the improvements. First of all, you get some new neat cards where you can have reminders and certain voice commands and things work a lot better and some additional features, but also in Chrome. It got really neat so basically, once the Google now experience comes to Chrome, you’ll be able to just go to google.com and say: ok, Google, how tall is Barack Obama and it’ll give you the same response that it would in Google now for Android.
So they did a bunch of neat demos and basically it’s now more contextually aware, so you can have almost a very conversation like thing with it. So, for example, I could say how much does it cost to ride this roller coaster in this park, and it will tell me that and then I can say how long will it take to get there from here, and you didn’t have to name it again when You say there and here it knows you’re talking about the roller coaster in the amusement park and when you say here it knows you’re talking about your current location. So it could tell you this information without you repeating yourself over and over again very cool stuff. Google. Now improvements are definitely gon na, be a big help. Number two, the Samsung Galaxy s4 with Android 4.2 pure jellybean on and this one caught us totally by surprise, is basically a super Nexus. I did a separate video on that not too long ago. So if you haven’t already seen it definitely click the annotation there or if you can’t, there’s a link below of that like button, but basically now there is a galaxy s4 out there in the Play, Store it’ll be available soon with the pure nexus experience on it.
Straight from Google: well, I didn’t know that Samsung had any reason to do this. I didn’t know that Google had any reason to do this, but now it is officially a thing and yeah. It’S gon na be delivered through the Play Store, you’ll be able to get this unlocked with an unlocked bootloader with the same bands as the Nexus 4 on AT .