Live Blog from Google I/O in Washington D.C. !

[Ken_PC]

Hello Everyone!

I'm here at the Artisphere in Arlington, VA where the Google I/o will be streamed and other devs and their Glass will attend, share, Network, Share code. It's going to be FUN. I'll be Updating with pictures!

Feel free to follow me on Twitter @Ken_pctech and on youtube at www.youtube.com/DiscussPC

 

 Here I am, got my badge. All set!

 

Everyone is waiting around in the meeting area. Surprised to see about 70% of everyone with Mac Laptops!

Everyone moved into the dome. getting ready.

 

It would be cool if Photobucket would comply with me right now

 

 

I/O started!1!!!

 

1B 30-day activations

 

Android Tablets account for 62% of shipments!

 

L developer Preview Build

 

 

Google is thinking a little outside the box here. Not only can pixels have color.... BUT FEEL.  MORE TACTILE feeling.

Google Android is adding the api's for developers to specify a height for pixles

 

Old and new Gmail App side by side with the new api's 

 

NEW FEATURE TIME!!

 

Android is rehauling the Api's for devs to create Fluid and beautiful UI's that run at 60FPS

 

 

Phone app style

 

New upgraded Notifications

 

 

Lets say you're Playing a game and a call comes in, the notification will elegantly pop in.... not interrupt your game Similar to Skype on PC

 

Didn't grab a pic of that last feature went by to quick

 

 

New search for mobile

 

Again. reiterates fast, buttery smooth. 60FPS

 

New real time shadows in Multitasking

 

 

 

Now links on google will open up its appropriate app... if installed. not opening up the browser page... Not sure how I feel about that one.

 

Now Onto Performance changes

Including ART now with x64 bit compatibility

 

With faster app loads, no more stuttering, and memory optimizations

 

UnrealEngine4!!!!

 

 

 

Battery Historian. just a more in depth version of the battery visualizer. shows you the battery hogs if theres an issue, you can see it an fix it.

 

Battery saver: Downclock CPU  Reduce fps, and restrict data usage(background)

 

Android play has automatic Malware scanning.. yeah yeah..

 

Android wants to be more "connected"

 

Now to Wearables.....

ANDROID WEAR

 

Square and Circular screens. Fitness implementations 

 

New notifications on Android Wear

 

 

 

Google voice search on Android Wear

Similar to google Now

 

Voice music controls such as "play artist" 

 

You can set Do Not Disturb from your watch as well.

 

now he's going over the Developer stuff like UI creating for wear..

 

--->Turn By Turn Directions for Watches

 

Now for a food app that'll allow you to order food in a little as a few taps on your watch!. Damn. I'n gonna get fat QUICK!!!!!

 

 

 

The app runs NATIVELY on the watch, not on the phone. Pretty cool

 

MOTO 360 available this summer..... AWWWW. I have to wait.

But the samsung and lg watch available for order today

 

Now Android for Car's 

 

Android Auto

 

 

Live demo of android auto Dashboard demo.

 

Google now can remember that if you researched a place, you can say things like "take me there" and it'll know where "there" is.

 

Android Auto SDK available "soon"

 

Cars signed up for Android Auto

 

Now Android in the LIVING ROOM

Android TV. 

App for phone as well, to control your Android TV

 

 

Can also use voice search for movies or general voice search queries.

 

Added Google Movies from the play store.

 

Can also use your android Wear Watch as a D-Pad for the tv. 

 

Can play games as well with a Controller. live demo showed a ps3 controller???

Multiplayer games possible. 1 person on Tablet and one on TV

 

Android TV basically acts as a giant Chromecast as well. for video and music streaming.

 

 

Android TV partners

 

ADT1 for Android TV developers available today.

 

 

My laptop is at 32% battery. and no outlets in the "dome" so if it dies, ill continue snapping pics and ill upload/update the post once i can plug in.

 

 

Now with chromecast, you dont have to be on the same Local wifi network, you can send to Chromecast in your TV over a 3g network on your phone via the cloud. You can have "trusted devices" to stream to your chromecast and the streamer has to at least be close to the tv. So you cant interrupt your friends Game of Thrones show with a picture of Kittens from the comfort of your house down the street lol.

 

Can now Mirror any android device to Chromecast as well! FINALLY. been looking for this feature.

 

even the camera app and Google Earth.

 

 

 

Now with ChromeBooks

 

If your phone is near your chromebook, it'll unlock your chromebook and automagically sign you into your G services.

 

Simple notifications from android phone to chromebook. things like calls, text, and low battery.

 

Now, Top android apps run on chromebooks. probably through a little VM

 

 

 

Android for work, added security and apps.

 

 

Native Microsoft Office Editing built into GDocs!!! Been waiting for this too!!!!

 

 

Inspirational video on a Middleschool team writing an app for a schoolmate who was blind.

 

 

Now about Google Cloud

 

sorry about quality. im taking pics of basically a 1080p YT stream blown up to equivelint of a theater screen

 

Some guy is screaming and interrupting in San Francisco! lol something about "robots are gonna kill everyone"

 

HAHA next presenter cracked a comment "Well this next app is the most peaceful app I can make" HAHAHA everyone chuckled

 

Going over some Cloud Debugging. anything on google's cloud computing, you can debug code that may be running on thousands of servers and change it real time with reports/analytics about service calls. (in a nutshell) (im not a Dev)

 

more cloud Data and analytics. *yawn* 

 

 

More dev tools for google play. to help devs Develop, Distribute, Monetize and such.

 

Announcing Google FIT

Allows people to manage multiple sensors like wearables and activities. 

 

Google is parterning with Fitness apps like Noom to integrate your G services to monitor more data.

Nike Fuel for android

all under one API

Google FIT SDK available in a few weeks.

 

 

Google Play Games(services)

Game profile(based on games you're playing and achievements you get)

------Saved games in the proifile (other users can see screenshots of your game on the profile)

 

Direct carrier billing. Adding Google play purchases directly to your phone bil. Brace yourselves... News stories about 3 year olds racking up phone bills are coming.

 

Participitants are getting a choice of the samsung watch or lg watch. then later in the summer, everyone gets the Moto 360. Jealous

[AlexGoesHigh]

isn't I/O in san francisco?

[Ken_PC]

isn't I/O in san francisco?

It is but there are Official Google meetups where it is streamed live and some people are here from Google HQ