Intel Android Devices

• 80+ Intel Android Devices
• Intel XDK: Design, debug, build, and deploy HTML5 web and hybrid apps across multiple app stores, and form factor devices.
• Free hoodie + Acer Iconia Tab 8
• Android NDK: Toolset that allows you to implement parts of your app using native-code languages such as C and C++.

iBattz

• Mojo Battstation Optimus 20400
  • 20400mAh
  • 2 USB ports: 2.1A and 1A
  • Passthrough
  • 2014 Best in Show from iLounge.com
  • Bought at AV Electronics
• Beware cheap powerbanks using cheap components / full of sand
• Android apps for viewing charge rate:
  • Current Widget
  • Galaxy Charging Current Lite
• Related: “Buying Guide for USB Battery Packs / Powerbanks”

Android Wear

• Android wear UI is not customizable
• Pairs with Android phone via Bluetooth (requires Android 4.3+)
• 1 day battery life
• Notifications appear on watch
  • Swipe left to dismiss
  • Swipe right to take further action (e.g. open in phone)
  • Reply with voice (only for certain apps)
  • Requires 2 hands
• Availability (in certain locations):
  • Currently available: Samsung Galaxy Gear Live / LG G watch
  • Moto 360 available in the summer of 2014
• Samsung Gear live (vs the G Watch)
  • smaller screen (1.63" Super AMOLED vs 1.65” IPS LCD)
  • higher resolution (320x320 vs 280x280)
  • smaller battery (300 mAh vs 400mAh)
  • extra Heart Rate Sensor (common sensors: Compass, Accelerometer, Gyroscope)
  • has a Bluetooth / Wi-Fi antenna
  • cheaper in US (US$199 vs US$229) (Australia: $1 more expensive, AUD$250 vs AUD$249)
• LG G watch
  • possible charging contact corrosion should be fixed
  • can charge while wearing (using the cradle), not ideal but possible

Chromecast

• Chromecast Website
• Ability to pair with devices that are not on the same network using ultrasonic sounds
• Plex

Chrome OS

• Android Apps ported to Chrome OS
  • Requires extra work to be functional (not automatic)
  • Submit an app to be ported to Chrome OS

Cardboard

• Cheap virtual reality using a phone, lenses and a foldable cardboard headset
• Cardboard Developer Website
• Android App
• Chrome Experiments for Cardboard
• Google I/O Session: Cardboard: VR for Android
• DIY 3D Virtual Reality Goggles: Cardboard implementation many years back

Android L

• Preview for Nexus 5, Nexus 7 2013
• Android Runtime (ART): replacing Dalvik
• Project Volta: aims for better battery life. ArsTechnica investigates Project Volta
• Android Enterprise features
  • Personal and Enterprise information into different segments on the phone
  • Samsung contributes KNOX security technology to AOSP and will be in Android L

Android TV

• Android TV Website
• Google Content (movies & music) on the big screen using voice commands
• Game focused: has hardware game controllers, similar to Ouya
• Controlled using swipes with Android wear or voice commands on an regular Android device
• Can cast screen/content from Android devices to Android TV using Google Cast
• Play Store available to install apps

Google Fit

• Google Fit Website
• Google’s ‘me too’ fitness platform
• Google’s response to Apple’s HealthKit / Samsung’s S Health

Android Auto

• Android Auto Website
• In-board car dashboard powered by your Android device
• “Dumb” dashboard monitored, all powered by external Android device
• Google’s response to Apple’s CarPlay

Polymer

• Polymer Project website
• Polymer Elements
  • Polymer Core elements: a set of utility elements including general-purpose UI elements (such as icons, layout elements, and toolbars), as well as non-UI elements providing features like AJAX, signalling and storage. Docs | Demos
  • Paper Elements: Polymer’s paper elements collection implements material design for the web. They’re a set of highly visual, highly interactive elements that include things like controls, layouts, hero transitions, and scrolling effects. Docs | Demos
• Polymer Designer: Designer is a drag and drop tool for prototyping apps using Polymer. Save your experiments as Github gists.

Watch the Google I/O 2014 Keynote on YouTube

Goodie count

• LG G Watch / Samsung Gear Live
• Moto 360 (maybe)
• AndroidTV
• Intel Hoodies and Intel Android Tablet
• Cardboard
  • Play Store app
  • Chrome Experiments for Cardboard
• T-Shirts and stuff
• Not freebies but bought goodies
  • Windows 8" tablet & SCOTTeVEST Revolution Jacket

Android One

• Reference hardware for OEMs
• High quality affordable smartphones
• Stock Android & Automatic Updates from Google
• 4.5" Android device, dual SIM, FM radio, micro SD card slot
• Under US$100

Material Design

• Google’s holistic approach to design (Google Design guidelines)
• Material Design introduction

• mfirdaus the Google Play developer is going to Google I/O 2014 along with some GDG Brunei folks
• He wants free goodies especially the Moto 360 and probably Glass as well

Links

• Google I/O website (Google.com)
• Google I/O 2013 (Wikipedia.org)
• Google I/O 2013 Round up (gigaom.com)
• Google I/O 2012 (Wikipedia.org)
• Google I/O 2012 Round up (gottabemobile.com)
• WWDC 2014 video stream (apple.com)
• WWDC 2014 Round Up (imore.com)

Google I/O 2012 links: I/O website, Day 1 video, Day 2 video

• Day 1
  • Google+ Events
    • Party mode that shares all photos to the event page
    • Calendar integration: ensure to disable showing events that you have been invited to and not accepted to show in calendar
  • Google Glass Explorer Edition
    • US$1500. Sky diving, bike stunt, repelling approved
• Day 2
  • Chrome for iOS
    • iPhone & iPad
    • With features like tab syncing, and password synchronization
  • Google Drive
    • Now available for iOS and Chrome OS
    • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on images - can search for text in photos
    • Intelligent image search (e.g. search for pyramid and it can retrieve photos with pyramids in it)
    • Built into ChromeOS
  • Google Docs Offline
    • save changes when offline and uploads when online
  • Google Compute Engine
    • Amazon EC2 competitor

Google I/O 2012 links: I/O website, Day 1 video, Day 2 video

Android 4.1 Jellybean

• Overview of new features, API Notes & official changelog from Google
• Project Butter
  • To make UI smoother using triple buffering, vsync, 60fps
  • Increasing CPU frequency when there is touch input so it is responsive
  • Predicting where the user will touch
  • David Pogue says “Google’s tablet is now Applesque in its fluid touch response”
• Notifications improvement
  • Actions straight from notifications. No need to open app
    • Call person from missed called
    • Email all attendees for meeting
    • +1 or share straight from the notifications
  • Different views: normal (text snippet), bigger view (with lots of text), picture view (with images)
• Google Now

  • Siri / S-voice competitor

  • Based on knowledge graph to show results based on context

  • Card based interface with each card showing information

  • More than just text as text answers: photos as well. With Google search at the bottom

  • Natural sounding voice

  • Proactive digital assistant giving automatic reminders / information based on context. Example: reminds you that you should leave in 5 minutes in order to meet your appointment due to traffic on the highway. It has your scheduled information in the calendar, it knows the route and traffic you should take and calculates the time it would take to reach destination.

  •  Google now creepy knowing your behaviour but gives relevant results

• Offline voice typing: core engine shrunk to work offline, but if there is an Internet connection it works better
• Homescreen improvements: when placing new widget on a screen it will automatically reflow icons to fit it or shrink the widget in order to fit it on the screen
• Predictive keyboard. New keyboard layouts and languages. User installable keymaps
• Accessibility improvements - gesture mode with speech guidance. USB/Bluetooth Braille inputs
• Camera tweaks. Swipe to review. Tap and share.
• Android beam: initiate transfers via NFC and now allowing larger transfers via Bluetooth
• WiFi network and WiFi direct service discovery: find services available via device son the network (e.g. printer) or via an app on another Android device (direct P2P without a need for a network)

Developer Related Features

• Update over the air for Galaxy Nexus, Motorola Xoom & Nexus S in mid July
• SDK available today
• App encryption: all paid apps encrypted with a device-specific key before they are delivered and stored on a device to prevent piracy
• Smart / Delta updates
  • Automatically handled by the Play Store
  • Support for Android 2.3 Gingerbread & above
  • 1/3 the size of regular updates
• Android Device Messaging C2DM now called Google cloud messaging
  • Multi-casting
  • Free. No quota limits
• Android Platform Development Kit
  • For hardware manufacturers
  • Given new version 2-3 months before release (for better / faster updates)

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