Google IO 2014 Keynote Live Blog
by Anand Lal Shimpi on June 25, 2014 10:47 AM EST- Posted in
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08:38AM PDT - We just got seated
08:38AM PDT - and the wired ethernet is awesome: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3585449223
08:40AM PDT - I hear loud honking I have no idea what's going on
08:40AM PDT - I'm assuming there's some Android car thing happening
08:50AM PDT - Switching timezones to pacific, timestamps will change
08:54AM PDT - If you look at the top of the site you'll notice a new wearables tab, we're launching the section today in anticipation of a bunch of Android Wear news at IO
08:59AM PDT - Whew, the wired ethernet died for a moment but just came back
09:02AM PDT - Just got the 5 minute warning, starting soon!
09:04AM PDT - We're about to begin
09:07AM PDT - Lights dimmed, crowd is "wooing"
09:08AM PDT - There's some elaborate rube goldberg machine doing its thing on stage
09:08AM PDT - Definitely not live blogging all of the components of the machine
09:08AM PDT - Intro video starting
09:09AM PDT - "Every little bit matters, here's what you build next"
09:10AM PDT - Sundar Pichai, Android SVP on the stage
09:10AM PDT - Sundar is thanking developers for attending
09:10AM PDT - IO viewing parties in 85 countries
09:10AM PDT - Over 1 million people watching the livestream today
09:11AM PDT - Now showing us live feeds of the viewing parties around the world
09:12AM PDT - "Android and Chrome are built from the ground up for developers"
09:12AM PDT - Now talking about mobile momentum
09:12AM PDT - We will hear about Google evolving its platforms beyond mobile
09:13AM PDT - Over 315M smartphone shipments in Q4
09:13AM PDT - Now focusing on 30 day active Android users
09:13AM PDT - Over 1 billion 30-day active Android users as of this year's IO
09:14AM PDT - Over 20B text messages sent every day by Android users
09:14AM PDT - Over 93M selfies on Android devices every day
09:14AM PDT - 1.5 trillion steps per day
09:14AM PDT - Check their phones over 100 billion times each day
09:14AM PDT - Each important use case we are working on addressing and you'll hear about it today
09:14AM PDT - Steps, checking phones frequency, sounds like an Android Wear announcement
09:15AM PDT - Sundar is talking about smartphone use cases and experiences now
09:15AM PDT - Now shifting to tablets
09:16AM PDT - Android tablets accounted for 39% of all shipments 2 years ago, 46% last year, 62% this year
09:16AM PDT - Those numbers don't include Kindle
09:16AM PDT - YouTube tablet views on Android: 28% a year ago
09:16AM PDT - Now 42%
09:16AM PDT - Android app installs on tablets are up over 200% this year
09:17AM PDT - Now talking about reaching the next 5 billion mobile users
09:17AM PDT - Less than 10% of the population in India have access to smartphones
09:17AM PDT - android one
09:17AM PDT - new initiative to address this problem
09:18AM PDT - Hardware reference platforms
09:18AM PDT - Sounds like an entry level Android smartphone reference platform
09:18AM PDT - Software on Android One is the same as Stock Android with Play Auto installs and automatic updates
09:18AM PDT - All the Android One software comes from Google
09:19AM PDT - Just like with Nexus and GPe phones
09:19AM PDT - Micromax Android One, less than $100, dual SIM, 4.5" screen, FM Radio
09:19AM PDT - Starting in India, launching with 3 OEMs later this year
09:19AM PDT - Karbonn, micromax and spice
09:20AM PDT - This is like Nexus devices for the entry level smartphone market
09:20AM PDT - Now talking about evolving Android and Chrome
09:20AM PDT - Preview of Android L release
09:21AM PDT - L Developer Preview available later for download
09:21AM PDT - Sounds like today
09:21AM PDT - Wanted to rethink the user design experience in Android to have a fresh, bold and new look
09:21AM PDT - Matias Duarte is taking the stage to talk about design in Android L
09:21AM PDT - Android L: One consistent vision for mobile, desktop and beyond
09:22AM PDT - Wanted a design that's clean and simple
09:22AM PDT - What if pixels didn't just have color, but also depth
09:22AM PDT - "A way of thinking we call Material Design"
09:23AM PDT - Showing off the new design of Android L
09:23AM PDT - The design appears to be called Material
09:23AM PDT - Showing off new lighting and shadow effects
09:24AM PDT - App developers will be able to specify an elevation value for any UI surface
09:24AM PDT - The framework will handle perspective, light sources and real time shadows based on this elevation value
09:24AM PDT - App developers will be able to easily colorize all framework elements
09:24AM PDT - Palette can easily extract colors from images to help colorize the design of your app
09:26AM PDT - All UI building blocks have been updated to include animated touch feedback
09:26AM PDT - Android developers will now be able to create seamless animations between screens
09:26AM PDT - Definitely a huge focus on animations
09:26AM PDT - Showing off Gmail for L
09:28AM PDT - All of the Material design enhancements will also be available to Polymer for use in web development
09:28AM PDT - New unified style guidelines: http://www.google.com/design
09:28AM PDT - First draft of the new design guidelines released today as a part of the new L Developer Preview
09:28AM PDT - Now moving onto new features in Android L
09:29AM PDT - 5000+ new developer APIs
09:29AM PDT - Going to talk about UX and performance improvements
09:29AM PDT - Talking about the new animations supported by L
09:30AM PDT - Showing off the new Phone Dialer
09:30AM PDT - and the new ripple touch effect when you tap tabs and calls
09:30AM PDT - Smooth shadowed animations when you bring up the dialer
09:32AM PDT - Enhanced notifications
09:32AM PDT - N
09:33AM PDT - New lock screen notifications
09:33AM PDT - Merged lock screen and notification shade
09:33AM PDT - New type of notification: heads up notification
09:34AM PDT - Personal Unlocking
09:34AM PDT - Allows device to determine if it's in a trusted environment
09:34AM PDT - Based on BT devices that are visible, your voiceprint and location
09:35AM PDT - If your phone sees you're using a BT watch it thinks you're in a trusted environment and doesn't ask for an unlock code
09:35AM PDT - If the phone can no longer see your watch, Android L will prompt you for a pinlock
09:36AM PDT - 27M monthly active users of Chrome on mobile last year, now over 300M
09:37AM PDT - Now talking about bringing Material to the mobile web
09:37AM PDT - Demonstrating Google search results on the mobile web with Material deisgn
09:38AM PDT - Animations, colors, styling all leverage Material
09:38AM PDT - Fast, fluid 60 fps animations on the mobile web
09:38AM PDT - Google really wants to make Android's styling the default for the web as well as its own devices
09:39AM PDT - Redesigned recents multitasking in Android
09:39AM PDT - Chrome tabs are now included in the recents app list
09:40AM PDT - All individual Chrome tabs are listed in your recents view in Android L
09:40AM PDT - New API in L allows apps to populate multiple items in recents as well
09:41AM PDT - Recapping app indexing, giving access to app data through Google Search
09:42AM PDT - If your app requires a user sign in, you'll be able to use Google+ signin to have your public content visible on search
09:43AM PDT - Do not disturb mode, new quick settings also in L
09:44AM PDT - Moving onto Performance
09:44AM PDT - ART is the new runtime in L, supports ARM, x86 and MIPS
09:44AM PDT - Dalvik is done, L is exclusively ART
09:44AM PDT - Designed to support a mix of AOT, JIT and interpreted code
09:44AM PDT - Do I smell a 64-bit announcement?
09:44AM PDT - 2x improvement over Dalvik
09:45AM PDT - Brand new garbage collector and memory allocator
09:45AM PDT - GC pause time in Google Maps, reduced by about half
09:45AM PDT - ART is more memory efficient
09:45AM PDT - Smarter about background task memory management
09:46AM PDT - ART is fully 64-bit compatible
09:46AM PDT - ARMv8, x86-64 and MIPS 64
09:46AM PDT - Now talking about Graphics in L
09:47AM PDT - Android Extension Pack defined with Google, Qualcomm, ARM and NVIDIA
09:47AM PDT - adds support for tessellation, geometry shaders, compute shaders and ASTC
09:47AM PDT - Unreal Engine 4 running on Android L with NVIDIA tablet hardware
09:47AM PDT - This sounds like Google's solution to the OpenGL/OpenGL ES gap
09:49AM PDT - New high end Android tablets and phones running L this fall
09:49AM PDT - Now talking about battery life
09:49AM PDT - Project Volta
09:50AM PDT - Designed to optimize how the subsystems in the device are used to improve battery life
09:50AM PDT - Battery Historian lets you visualize battery use
09:50AM PDT - wow there's a protestor in front of the stage
09:51AM PDT - JobScheduler API to schedule intensive updates for when you're charging your phone or delay for other reasons
09:51AM PDT - New battery saver mode
09:53AM PDT - Nexus 5, Nexus 7 L release out tomorrow morning
09:53AM PDT - H.265 support coming in L it looks like
09:53AM PDT - Sundar is back on stage
09:54AM PDT - Wow, not subtle dig at Apple introducing custom keyboards and widgets
09:55AM PDT - 93% of Android users are on the latest version of Google Play Services across all versions of Android
09:55AM PDT - Google Play Services ship every 6 weeks
09:55AM PDT - Less than half a percent of Android users run into Malware issues
09:55AM PDT - Security patches are now pushed out via Play Services
09:56AM PDT - With L users have full control to disable their phones via factory reset protection
09:56AM PDT - With L Google has a centralized setting, universal data controls, for users to manage privacy
09:56AM PDT - and manage things like location history and everything else that's shared with apps
09:57AM PDT - Google wants the multiscreen experience (phone, TV, watch, etc..) to be contextually aware, voice enabled
09:57AM PDT - seamless between devices
09:58AM PDT - Talking about wearables now
09:58AM PDT - Android Wear preview launched 3 months ago
09:58AM PDT - Time for the update on Android Wear
09:59AM PDT - Android Wear supports both square and circular screens
10:00AM PDT - people check their phones 125 times every day, Android Wear is designed to help reduce this number
10:00AM PDT - Live demo of LG G Watch
10:01AM PDT - Notifications are forwarded to your watch, swiping up/down navigates through cards on the watch - swipe left/right to go through pages within an app
10:02AM PDT - Clearing notifications on your watch clears them on your phone as well
10:02AM PDT - Multiple watch faces
10:02AM PDT - Demonstrating Google Now integration into Android Wear
10:03AM PDT - Google Talk notifications on Android Wear as well
10:03AM PDT - Apps stay in sync between watch and phone
10:04AM PDT - Can add quick notes from your watch to your phone
10:05AM PDT - Can swipe to reject calls from your watch or swipe up to respond with a predefined SMS
10:05AM PDT - Downward swipe on the watch triggers do not disturb mode on the phone
10:05AM PDT - Can launch music playback on your phone via the watch
10:05AM PDT - Playback controls exposed on the watch
10:06AM PDT - Can set alarms on your phone via your Android wear device
10:06AM PDT - Can show flight boarding passes on your Android Wear device
10:07AM PDT - Pedometer, pedometer history and heart rate checking all supported on Android Wear devices with proper hardware
10:07AM PDT - Talking about Android Wear capabilities for developers
10:08AM PDT - Giving examples of how developers can use Android Wear
10:09AM PDT - Full Android Wear SDK available today
10:10AM PDT - Can write code to run directly on the wearable itself
10:10AM PDT - Most Android APIs available on Android Wear as well
10:10AM PDT - Going over Android Wear apps that 3rd party developers have built
10:11AM PDT - When a watch is connected to your phone, any apps on your phone with a wearable component are automatically installed on the phone and kept up to date
10:13AM PDT - All Android Wear devices we're talking about today are water resistant
10:13AM PDT - Using Android Wear to car a Lyft car
10:14AM PDT - call a Lyft car
10:14AM PDT - You can see when your car has arrived, rate your driver as well
10:14AM PDT - all from your wrist
10:14AM PDT - LG G Watch available to order later today on the play store
10:14AM PDT - Samsung is the Android Wear family as well
10:15AM PDT - Gear Live, also available to order later today
10:15AM PDT - Moto 360 available for sale later this summer
10:15AM PDT - Moving on to bringing Android to the car
10:16AM PDT - In the US the average commuter spends over 1 hour in the car every day
10:16AM PDT - 25% of accidents in the US are caused by people fumbling with gadgets behind the wheel
10:17AM PDT - announcing Android Auto
10:17AM PDT - Android Auto puts navigation, communication and streaming music front and center
10:17AM PDT - Android Auto is completely voice enabled
10:19AM PDT - Phone casts Android experience to the in car display
10:19AM PDT - Apps run on the phone and are cast to the car
10:20AM PDT - Google Play music integration, voice and steering wheel controls are available
10:21AM PDT - Now demonstrating Google Maps for Android Auto
10:21AM PDT - Also fully voice enabled
10:22AM PDT - Incoming messages appear as heads up notifications
10:22AM PDT - Can reply to messages with voice too
10:23AM PDT - Android Auto SDK
10:23AM PDT - Full set of APIs for audio and messaging apps
10:25AM PDT - Android Auto SDK published soon
10:25AM PDT - Android Auto experience will be available with the L release later this year
10:25AM PDT - First cars with Android Auto will be rolling off dealer lots by the end of this year
10:26AM PDT - Now moving on to Android in the living room
10:26AM PDT - Here comes the TV announcements
10:26AM PDT - Talking about the fragmentation in the TV OS market
10:27AM PDT - Announcing Android TV
10:27AM PDT - Not a new platform, just giving TV the same attention as phones and tablets
10:27AM PDT - One Android SDK for all form factors
10:27AM PDT - Android TV requires just a d-pad and support for voice input, can be virtual
10:28AM PDT - Early look at TV support being added to L developer preview
10:29AM PDT - Core search functionality built directly into Android TV, powered by voice
10:31AM PDT - Running more voice driven Android TV demos
10:31AM PDT - Now showing off Android TV apps
10:31AM PDT - L supports a lean back experience to help in building 10-foot UIs
10:32AM PDT - Google Play movies app: One APK for TV, phones and tablets
10:32AM PDT - You can use your Android Wear watch as a d-pad if you don't have your remote handy
10:33AM PDT - Now talking about games on Android TV
10:33AM PDT - 3 out of 4 Android users are playing games
10:34AM PDT - Can play multiplayer games across devices
10:35AM PDT - Android TV includes full Google Cast support so you can use it like a Chromecast
10:36AM PDT - Google Play TV store will officially open in the fall
10:36AM PDT - Android TV is designed for TVs, set top boxes and gaming boxes
10:36AM PDT - Entire 2015 HD/4K ranges from Sony and HD ranges from Sharp and Phillips will run Android TV
10:37AM PDT - ASUS and RAZR launching Android TV boxes this fall
10:37AM PDT - Intel, Qualcomm, Mediatek and NVIDIA are all Android TV partners
10:37AM PDT - http://developer.android.com/tv
10:37AM PDT - Now moving onto talking about Google Cast/Chromecast developments
10:38AM PDT - Chromecast has sold millions of devices, consistently outsold other set top boxes
10:39AM PDT - YouTube sees more active engagement on Chromecast than on any other TV streaming product
10:40AM PDT - Today announcing new discovery experiences for Chromecast apps
10:40AM PDT - http://www.chromecast.com/apps or via the Chromecast app on your device
10:41AM PDT - New feature: others can cast to your TV without being on the same WiFi network
10:41AM PDT - Cast button now lets you connect to nearby Chromecast devices even if you're not on the same network
10:42AM PDT - Authenticates users in the same room as the Chromecast
10:42AM PDT - If the Chromecast can't automatically find you, a pin will be displayed on the screen
10:42AM PDT - You always have control over who has control to your TV
10:42AM PDT - Feature will be rolled out to Android later this year
10:43AM PDT - New Google Cast Ambient experience, called Backdrop
10:43AM PDT - Supported by Android and iOS
10:43AM PDT - You can now add personal photos to the ambient feed
10:44AM PDT - Can include artwork, news, weather and satellite photos of places
10:45AM PDT - All content is curated to ensure only high quality and safe images are displayed
10:45AM PDT - You can use google voice search on your mobile device to explain what's being displayed on your chromecast
10:45AM PDT - "What's on my chrome cast"
10:46AM PDT - New Google Cast feature that lets you mirror any Android device to your TV
10:46AM PDT - Built our own protocol to reduce latency and ensure smooth operation
10:47AM PDT - Casting the camera app from an Android phone to the Chromecast
10:48AM PDT - Sundar is back on stage, probably ending soon
10:48AM PDT - Laptop update
10:49AM PDT - 8 OEMs making 15 Chrome devices in 28 countries
10:49AM PDT - All 10 of the top 10 highest rated laptops on Amazon are Chromebooks
10:49AM PDT - 6x growth in the number of Chromebooks in K12 schools in the US
10:50AM PDT - Want to improve Chromebook/Android interoperability
10:50AM PDT - Every time you approach your Chromebook and your phone is with you we will automatically unlock your Chromebook and automatically sign you in to your favorite apps/services
10:50AM PDT - Same Google Now cards on your phone appear on your Chromebook as well
10:50AM PDT - incoming call notifications now appear on Chromebook
10:50AM PDT - Same for text messages
10:51AM PDT - Low battery notifications for your phone appear on your Chromebook as well
10:52AM PDT - Google will be enabling Android apps to run on Chromebooks
10:52AM PDT - Early demo of it now
10:53AM PDT - Showing off Vine and Flipboard Android apps running on Chrome OS
10:53AM PDT - This is huge for improving Chrome OS
10:55AM PDT - With Android L, Google is adding a bunch of APIs to unify work/person app experiences on the same device
10:55AM PDT - Underlying data separation
10:55AM PDT - Personal data is isolated from corporate and vice versa
10:55AM PDT - No modification needed for existing apps
10:56AM PDT - Will also work on prior versions of Android
10:56AM PDT - Samsung is contributing all of its Knox work to Android so there's one consistent story
10:56AM PDT - Certified Android for Work program
10:57AM PDT - Native Office Editing available within Google Docs suite of editors
10:58AM PDT - No longer convert Word files into Docs formats, opened and saved as native Word files
10:58AM PDT - You can always convert to Google Docs format if you want
10:59AM PDT - Google Drive has over 190M 30-day active users
11:00AM PDT - Unlimited storage for $10/user per month
11:01AM PDT - Now switching gears to talking about developer success
11:01AM PDT - Playing a video of developer success stories
11:05AM PDT - Video is done, now talking about building apps that can scale
11:08AM PDT - Secret, with a single backend developer built an app that saw over 1000x growth in the last two months
11:09AM PDT - Another protestor
11:10AM PDT - Ok protestor silenced, back to Google Cloud platform demos
11:14AM PDT - Showing off cloud tracing
11:17AM PDT - Cloud Monitoring, includes alerting support
11:18AM PDT - Now talking about data and analytics
11:19AM PDT - Announcing Cloud Dataflow - result of over a decade of experience in analytics
11:20AM PDT - Demo time, analyzing millions of tweets per world cup match to determine sentiment
11:21AM PDT - Dataflow API provides a simple mechanism to do one to many data transforms
11:22AM PDT - Sorry, not much to live blog here
11:25AM PDT - Demo over
11:27AM PDT - Now moving on to Google Play
11:28AM PDT - Appurify is joining Google
11:28AM PDT - Appurify is a mobile cloud testing service
11:30AM PDT - Appurify will continue to be cross platform on iOS and Android, available as a freemium service
11:30AM PDT - Google Fit Platform Preview
11:30AM PDT - Single set of APIs to manage fitness data from apps and sensors from both cross platform devices and wearables
11:32AM PDT - Nike is allowing other apps and fitness devices to integrate with Nike Fuel through this API
11:33AM PDT - Now moving on to talking about Google Play and Google Play Games
11:33AM PDT - GPG has activated over 100M new users in the past 6 months
11:33AM PDT - New game profile
11:34AM PDT - Users will be able to see bookmarks of their progress in the Play Games app
11:34AM PDT - Google can automate the creation of achievement quests as well, called Quests
11:35AM PDT - Features will roll out soon in the next update of Google Play Services and the Play Games app
11:35AM PDT - Moving onto discussing monetization
11:36AM PDT - Direct carrier billing for tablets
11:36AM PDT - Done with Google Play, Sundar is back on stage
11:36AM PDT - 2:36 into the keynote now, man these things are intense
11:36AM PDT - Over $5B has been paid out from Google Play to developers since last year's Google IO
11:37AM PDT - Now talking about the giveaway swag
11:37AM PDT - Everyone is getting a piece of cardboard
11:38AM PDT - Each attendee gets a choice of the LG G watch or the Samsung Gear Live
11:38AM PDT - Each attendee gets a Motorola 360 when it's available
11:38AM PDT - The crowd clearly cares about the Moto 360
11:39AM PDT - And we're done! Thanks for following!
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Roland00Address - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
So I am reading this and the feeling of awesomeness and how much I want this now can only be communicated by channeling Charlie Sheen.-----
I am not Google, I am not Android. I am bi-winning, I win here and I win there.
I am Android L, I got tiger blood and I am made with Adonis DNA.
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So someone maybe Google show me how to make an image backup of my nexus 7 so all my stuff is safe and how to reimage my nexus to Android L.
That or do a dual boot with kit kat and android L. I want to play right now!!!
random2 - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
Are we expected to read through all of this? There's no video? Any DLs of a video available? I have so many questions.Roland00Address - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
Go here and click the watch the keynote buttonhttps://www.google.com/events/io
HangFire - Thursday, June 26, 2014 - link
Now that the issue of Android in automobiles is officially on the table, will AT please start paying attention to these questions in phone reviews- does BT even connect to a standard set of car audio brands? How useful is the Car Dock mode? How well do priority overrides between streaming audio, Nav and incoming calls work? How good is noise rejection on speakerphone on the highway?As I've said over and over again, handheld use in autos is illegal most anywhere, yet these issues are ignored in every AT smartphone review.
Ram Reddy - Monday, July 28, 2014 - link
Hi thanks lot for the neat and crisp information, having plans to buy Xiaomi Mi3. Regards <a href="http://www.onlinedada.com/2014/07/xiaomi-mi3-revie... Mi3</a>