Another I/O has become history! We worked in sandboxes, watched stunning product demonstrations, and listened to For you, we have compiled a list of 100 announcements that we made at I/O:
Technology
- New phone! Our smartphones are will be available this week, combining all the key features from Google at a lower price ($399 for the 5.6-inch display and $479 for the 6-inch model).
- loves a trio, so Pixel 3a it is presented in three color options: purple, white, and just black.
- And regardless of the color of the phone, it has the same Pixel camera. Capture portraits in HDR+ mode or use Night Sight for magical low-light photos (think outdoor concerts, fancy restaurants, or night hikes with friends).
- A bit of creativity - Time Lapse will be added to Pixel 3a. With this technology, you'll be able to capture a sunset and convert it into a few seconds of video.
- A battery that lasts all day! Pixel 3a charges for 15 minutes for 7 hours of battery life, and a full charge can last up to 30 hours.
- Use Pixel 3a on full. With Google Assistant, send texts, find routes, set reminders, and much more - just using your voice.
- Who's there? The 'Call Screen' feature in Google Assistant (available in the US and Canada) provides additional information on who is calling before you answer. It saves you from spam calls once and for all.
- Pixel 3a is secured against new threats thanks to three years of security updates and operating system updates.
- It also comes with a custom chip Titan M, which helps protect your most important data.
- All Pixel phones feature an augmented reality preview in Google Maps. So on your next walk through the city, you can check routes overlaid onto the real world instead of staring at a boring blue dot on the map.
- Meet . We are combining home products and the Nest brand to create a smart home.
- We introduced the newest member of the Google Nest family: Google Nest Hub Max. It features a 10-inch display, high-quality stereo sound, a camera with built-in Nest Cam features, and all the power of Google Assistant.
- Live albums in Nest Hub Max allow you to select family and friends' photos from your Google Photos to display on the screen.
- The built-in Nest Cam helps you keep an eye on what’s happening at home. Just turn on the camera when you're away and watch the action right from the Nest app on your phone.
- The camera in Hub Max also allows you to make video calls and leave personal messages using the Google Duo video calling app.
- If you're listening to music or watching a cooking guide, simply wave your hand to lower the volume. Control everything with gestures, just look at Nest Hub Max and raise your hand.
- The home monitoring dashboard lets you manage all connected devices from a single interface. Currently, Google Assistant controls over 30,000 devices from 3,500 brands.
- Similar to Voice Match, you have the option to enable Face Match in Nest Hub Max, which identifies who is using the device and shares the most important information, such as calendar and estimated travel time.
- We have also shared new commitments regarding privacy policies, explaining our security options for Google Nest products.
- On the front panel Hub Max the green indicator light shows when the camera is streaming video. Additionally, you have several controls to disable camera features like Nest Cam and Face Match.
- Hub Max will be available in the USA, UK, and Australia this summer.
- Google Nest Hub, previously known as Google Home Hub, is now available in 12 more countries: Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Spain, and Sweden.
- Prices have dropped: Google Nest Hub is available in the USA for $129, starting today, Google Home is $99, and Google Home Max is $299.
Assistant
- Assistant is currently operating on over one billion devices available in more than 30 languages across 80 countries.
- Assistant will work on the device and respond to requests ten times faster with virtually no delay. It will arrive later this year on Pixel.
- Continued conversation. Now with the feature, you can make multiple requests in a row without saying 'Okay, Google' each time.
- We are enhancing capabilities for the Internet to help you complete tasks faster. Just ask the assistant: "Book a car for my next trip," and it will figure out everything else on its own.
- Stop the alarm! Now you can stop the timer or alarm you set on Google Home speakers or smart displays just by saying "stop."
- Quick help! With the new 'Personal Connections' feature, the assistant will understand you better and will inform you about important things in your life. For example, you can tell the assistant which contact is 'mom.' Then you can ask, "Okay, Google. What’s the weather at my mom's house this weekend?" — and get an answer without any additional details.
- Choose your next recipe to try, event to join, or podcast to listen to with ‘Suggestions for You.’ This assistant feature is based on previous search results and other contextual hints to provide more personalized results.
- In the coming weeks, access to all the assistant's helpful features will be available directly in Waze.
- Use driving mode in the assistant when you're behind the wheel. The new dashboard automatically launches when you are driving and displays the most important actions, such as navigation, messaging, calls, and multimedia.
- With the assistant, it’s easier to manage your car remotely, allowing you to adjust your car's temperature, check fuel levels, or ensure your doors are locked without leaving home.
- Manage your assistant data and select suitable privacy options on the ‘You’ tab in settings.
- Ever google the question 'how to make ...'? We provide content creators with easy-to-use developer tools, so in the coming months, when you ask, 'Okay, Google, how do I make a treehouse out of matchsticks?' you'll receive step-by-step instructions from trusted sources like DIY Networks.
- The assistant is now integrated with some of your favorite apps. For example, you can say, 'Okay, Google, start a run in Nike Run Club.'
- Now game developers will fully leverage the advantages of developing for interactive Smart Displays, so we will soon see more games combining voice, visuals, and touch.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- The winner is… we presented , who have utilized AI to address social issues.
- We have made progress in flood forecasting in India. Now we can better use AI to predict the timing, location, and severity of floods across 90% of India's territories, sharing this information through Google alerts.
- Two musical groups took the stage at I/O — using machine learning. and worked with Google engineers to create music using Magenta, our AI tool for creativity.
- Check out our new , a tool that will help machine learning practitioners make better, user-centered decisions when working with AI.
- We continue AI research that improves our products and use it to enhance user privacy. allows Google AI products to work better without collecting raw data from your devices.
Google News and Search
- Stay informed. A technology that shows , and used in Search to organize search results by topic, providing you with the context necessary to understand.
- When you search for news on a specific topic, you will have the ability to see different moments in history — from timelines of events to key people involved — covering a broad range of content including articles, tweets, and even podcasts.
- In the coming months, we will start including podcasts in Google search results so you can listen to podcasts directly from the search results page or save an episode for later.
Augmented Reality and Google Lens
- Seeing means believing! Soon you will be able to view 3D objects directly in search and place them in your own space.
- , using augmented reality to overlay useful information and content onto the real world. For example, if you see a dish you would like to prepare in the next issue of Bon Appetit, you can point your camera at the recipe, bring the page to life, and show how to make it.
- The camera will help you decide what to order. Just point the lens at the menu and find out which dishes are popular. Tap on a dish to see photos and snippets of reviews from Google Maps.
- Now you can point your camera at text, and the lens will automatically overlay the translation right over the original words — it works in over 100 languages.
- What does this say? When you point your camera at text, we can read it aloud. You can also tap on a specific word to find its definition. This feature launches for the first time in Google Go, our search app for beginner smartphone users.
Confidentiality
- You will see your profile icon displayed more clearly across all Google products, so accessing privacy and security settings takes just one tap.
- We in Maps, Assistant, and YouTube (coming soon). For example, you will be able to view and delete your location data directly in Google Maps, and then quickly get back to what you were doing.
- New features for location history, web and app activity allows data to be deleted automatically.
- We are expanding Incognito mode — an option in Chrome that clears browsing history after each session — to more of our products, including Maps.
- Thanks to Federated learning, Gboard has improved , as well as emoji prediction on tens of millions of devices.
- We have built security keys , providing you with easier and more convenient protection against phishing attacks. This applies to all devices running Android 7.0 and above.
Android
- are focused on innovation, security, privacy, and digital wellbeing.
- Gesture-based navigation makes it easy to switch between tasks and utilize the larger screen.
- Android Q includes developer tools that enable the creation of apps for foldable phones and 5G, opening up new gaming possibilities.
- Live Caption will automatically play media files supported on your phone, such as video podcasts, audio messages, and even what you record yourself, across any app.
- Smart Reply is getting even smarter! Not only will your phone suggest responses, it will also assist you in taking actions like opening addresses from a text message in an app, for example, Google Maps.
- You asked — we delivered! The dark theme for Android Q. Activate it separately in settings, or switch to Battery Saver mode.
- We are elevating privacy to the top of settings, allowing you to find all important controls in one place.
- Android Q offers you new permission management tools so you can share your location (or not) with apps on your own terms.
- Time for a break? With the new Focus mode, you can do everything without distractions by selecting the apps you want to keep active and pausing all unused ones.
- To help children and families learn to use technology properly, we are making with Digital Wellbeing, starting with Android Q.
- Signed, sealed, delivered! There’s a new way to deliver important updates. With we can update core OS components without a full reinstall.
- All Android Q devices, including phones, tablets, TVs, and Android Auto, encrypt user data.
- Some of these features are available today in the Android Q Beta, which is accessible on 15 devices from 12 manufacturers (of course, on all Pixel phones).
- Android Q has introduced many new emojis, including 53 new non-binary designs for emojis defined by Unicode as “gender-neutral.”
- Buckle up! , which will be released this summer, will help you get on your way faster, quickly show useful information, and simplify common tasks while driving.
- Now for infotainment systems based on Android.
- C With Google, you get faster access to things right from your wrist, such as your goals, the next event, weather forecast, heart rate, and timer.
- The Android TV platform currently boasts over 140 pay-TV partners, 6 out of the top 10 smart TV manufacturers using the Android TV platform, and more than 5,000 apps and games in its ecosystem.
Activated
- It’s now easier to share files between Linux, Android, and Chrome OS using the file manager.
- Android Studio on Chrome OS helps optimize apps for Chrome OS — right on your Chromebook.
- All Chromebooks released this year will support Linux out of the box.
- More , such as improved cookie controls and more restrictions on online fingerprinting.
Advertising
- With the ability to make advertisers will soon be able to automatically pay more for users who spend more, and less for users who spend less.
- — Vidmob, Consumer Acquisition, Bamboo, Apptamin, Webpals, Creadits, Kaizen Ad, and Kuaizi — to provide advertisers with comprehensive creative development and consulting services.
- By the end of this year, we will expand the new monetization program called for all publishers so developers can automatically maximize the value of every impression.
- will give people more data on how Google uses it for ad personalization.
- We also launched new AdMob tools for developers that help better control ad content, easily access metrics, and quickly identify and remove bad ads.
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- uses AI to enhance the ability of computers to understand and transcribe diverse speech patterns, including speech impairments.
- uses on-device speech recognition and text-to-speech conversions so phones can listen and speak on behalf of people while typing.
- is a research project that makes Google Assistant more accessible for people with disabilities.
For developers
- We are launching the preview of the Local Home SDK, which enables developers to elevate speed and reliability in smart home devices.
- The next version of our Maps Android SDK is now available for public beta testing. It is built on the same platform as the Google Maps mobile application, which means higher performance and feature support.
- The new integration of Google Maps Platform with deck.gl will enable high-quality data visualization at scale.
- We to connect third-party home devices to our system. Now we will offer users and developers to work with the Works with Google Assistant program.
- We introduced for augmented images and light estimation — features that allow for more interactive and realistic experiences.
- Scene Viewer is a new tool that allows users to view 3D objects in AR directly from your website.
- Android development is becoming more .
- We released and opened the preview of Jetpack Compose — a new set of tools designed to simplify UI development.
- for download and includes improvements in three main areas: system performance, issue fixes, and bug resolutions.
- includes hundreds of changes in response to developer feedback, including updates for new App Store requirements for iOS SDK, updates for iOS and Material widgets, engine support for new device types, and Dart 2.3 with new language features like UI-as-code.
- We the first technical preview .
- API updates for Android applications Now users can install updates without leaving the app.
- in the Google Play Console help developers better evaluate application performance and analyze their metrics.
- A new change has appeared in Chrome Canary that will help load websites with a lot of images.
Source: habr.com
