Google I/O Recap
Show Notes
- In Other News
- Facebook experiments on users…alters news feed for psychology experiment
- Facebook threatened with contempt for fighting NY over user privacy. New York was investigating a disability fraud scam.
- Aereo declared illegal by Supreme Court
- GE launches $15 connected lightbulb
- Google starting its own domain registration service.
- Woman electrocuted and killed while talking on the phone plugged into faulty USB charger.
- The ‘L’ Preview
- Material Design
- Improved Recent Applications
- Lockscreen Notifications and Hovering Notifications
- ART Runtime and 64-bit support
- Project Volta!
- The Rotation Lock Quick Setting coming to phones
- Do Not Disturb Mode Silences Incoming Notifications
- Search within Settings App
- Estimate Time till Battery is Charged/Depleted
- Customize Your Display with Adaptive Brightness, which sets brightness to a level you like, and will adjust based on ambient light around you.
- Native PDF Support
- New unified notifications control interface.
- Enterprise and personal data separation
- New Camera API for advanced camera capabilities
- Multiple network connections API
- Bluetooth broadcasting, with the ability to act as a peripheral device.
- USB Audio support
- Platform News
- Android One, reference platforms to assist vendors in making inexpensive Android phones for emerging markets.
- Android Wear
- Android TV and Google Cast
- Google Cardboard is a box in which you place your phone, with two lenses, allowing for an inexpensive virtual reality experience. (Dodocase Knockoff)
- Android Studio hits beta.
- Google announces Google Fit health data platform.
- Google “Cloud Save” lets your app or game sync across platforms
- Google introduces Backdrop for Chromecast…customize the screensaver on your Chromecast.
- Chromecast Mirroring of your display.
- Some Android apps will be ported to Chrome. This won’t be an emulator, but actual porting. Google has a survey to suggest apps to port..
- Nest announces Smart Home API to bring third-party integration. Let your thermostat change temperatures when your fitness tracker tells it you are asleep…
- App News
- Google announces Quickoffice will be removed from the Play Store now that its native Microsoft format and editing features are in Google Docs apps.
- Youtube Creator Studio allows uploaders to check analytics, comments, etc. (Play Link)
- Ok, Google voice feature to work on all phone screens after latest Google Search update.
- Google Slides app joins Play Store. (Play Link)
- BeyondPod 4.0 Beta brings complete redesign and new name…BeyondPod Evo.
- New design for Netflix App as Well
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