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First Day Event Summary of Google I/O

First Day Event Summary of Google I/O

AndroidNova.org proudly brings you a summary of what;s launched/covered at Google I/O conference on 15 may 2013.Hold a deep breath as Google Entertains you with their breathtaking updates.Lets start the summary from Google Play Game services.

 

Google Made the  Games much more better

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Any gaming platform has its own social network, and Google’s cannot be left behind. Your Play Games identity will be managed by—you guessed it—Google+, but that’ll bring a whole bunch of social features to the table. The new app includes matchmaking and mulitplayer game options, an achievement system, saves that sync between devices linked to your account, and leaderboards in both “global” and “friends only” flavors. Basically, everything you’d expect to find rolled into a console gaming experience, for this generation anyway.

Of course, these features will only apply to Play-powered games, which will be tagged with a little controller-shaped badge for your identification convenience. Google Play Games will be lauching to Froyo+ device today, via a Google services update.

Better Google Maps with great battery backup and awesomely accurate location service

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Fused Location Provider is a new feature present in Google maps which will use all your phone’s sensors to find your location. Google’s claims that the location mode will use less than one percent of batter per hour when activated. However, we don’t know what  battery capacity Google’s talking about, and also that it would be an awesome achievement.

Second best about maps is improved geofencing. This is a an extreme leap in the app current update. since it will let your phone know when you enter an area that it should turn on functions, or perform certain tasks, but Google didn’t say much more than that it’s working on it. It’s been a big need on Android for a while now, though, so it’s encouraging.

And lastly is a smart detection of activity, which means your accelerometer will know when you’re walking, running, biking, or driving. Nice feature for people interested in activites where enormous movement is involved.

Google Play Music Subscriptions

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You can now buy a music subscription from Google.Google Play Music subscription  launches in the US today. It costs $10 per month. Everybody gets a 30-day free trial, if you are early birdie then only 8$.

During today’s Google I/O keynote, Google introduced All Access, which it is better for music discovery than its competitors like spotify. At first, it seems like a simple on-demand-meets-radio service with the personalization options you would expect. It works on phones, tablets and web browsers.

From a design and UX perspective, the innovation comes from the degree to which it’s easy to switch between the hands-on and hands-off experiences. If you don’t know what you want to listen to you can just hit “Listen Now” and start listening to something like we do for FM Radios or internet Radios ,”hear whats being played on air”.

The best part of the offer is You can get to keep the awesome features that came with Google Music. They’re totally integrated. It’s on-demand music, radio, and online storage locker for your personal collection all in one place.that’s icing on the chocalate cake for us

Google has never tried  a streaming music answer to services like Spotify and SoundCloud. Google has the infrastructure to make this sound service a success. We’ll have to wait and see which service comes out on top.

Recon Instrument’s Jet: Google Glass by a third party manufacturer

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Three years ago Recon Instruments came out with one of the first goggles with a HUD.  And today at I/O, Recon is debuting the Jet, a Google Glass-like set of shades that the company says is comparable to a tablet or smartphone (or Glass).

We don’t have much specifications about Jet other than a set of specs that include:

Wi-Fi, GPS, a dual-core processor, ANT+, Bluetooth, GPS, a HD camera and multiple sensors.Recon claims to have native apps built that allow users to browse the web, stream video, connect to Facebook, keep track of your activities and the like. 

Samsung Galaxy S4 Oppa Google Style!!!

 

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Whatever Google does it does that in style. Yeah that what it proved with the Google Layered Samsung Galaxy S4 ie S4 Google Edition. If you have been an regular and advanced android user then you might have noticed that bloatwares like Touchwiz ,Htc Sense slow you phone down. Google understood this and released it own version of the Samsung Galaxy S4. Yes. The samsung galaxy S4 is the new Nexus. The phone will be launched on June and will comprise of latest Android 4.2 Jellybean.

The new S4 with pure Google costs $649. It will be available on Google playstore from June. Being a Nexus now Samsung Galaxy s4 will receive all the android updates like the other Nexus Devices.  Samsung galaxy s4 is the first phone withexynos octa ie 8core processor(though 4 cores cud run simultaneously) packed with a 2GB of ram and Full HD display. The main feature of this s4 is that it would bootloader unlocked and factory unlocked thus custom rom development will be awesome.

 

 

Google Play for Education

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Google Play for Education sorts apps by grade level and subject matter, making it easy for teachers to find exactly what they want to teach to their student. It can also push content to any associated tablets—think books, lessons, and relevant YouTube videos—all at once, through the same mechanism.

But this feature requires every student to have a Google Account, which means they’re more likely to use Google’s other services and become entangled in Google’s cloud environment. It would be insanely wrong to run Play for Education without student accounts, and there’s nothing wrong with marketing your products to people freely. But it’s worth noting that the sooner you start leaning on Google for your apps and content, the harder it is to switch down the line if you’re so inclined.

Google Play for Education launches this fall , while app submissions will be accepted as soon as this summer.

Google Hangouts the new era of unified messaging


The long-speculated Babel all-in-one chat service has finally been revealed as Hangouts.

Google Talk, Hangouts, Voice, Google+ messenger: all of it is finally integrated into one monster of a unified chat service. Taking on the Google Hangouts name does make sense, too, since Google has been recently for trying to add as many users onto Google+ as they can.

Users finally get a synchronized chat across virtually every single one of your devices, with the ability to go back through chat history, delete messages, and grab files on every single one of them. You can hold group chats with any number of friends, and just like the Hangouts you know and love, you can also move straight into video chat from the text based or image based hangout.

What’s more, the new Hangout version will be hitting multiple platforms, coming  on Android, Chrome, iOS and of Gmail.Sorry! blackberry users.

Swype keyboard app for Android now on Play Store, supports four Indian languages
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Swype keyboard app for Android now on Play Store, supports four Indian languages

Nuance software Inc has launched the newest version of its most popular Swype keyboard for Android smartphones and tablets and has released it for the first time on the Google Play Store.

The App is now in the release stage and it has sheded its beta tag ,which was present for past couple of years.

The latest version of Swype also includes support for four Indian languages namely Tamil, Urdu, Hindi and Hinglish (a mixture of Hindi and English), allowing Swype users in India to choose from  the different languages while using the Swype keyboard. 

In addition to the new languages, the new version of Swype also brings what the company calls ‘dialect based Living Language support’ for Indian English, that automatically updates the Swype dictionary with popular Indian words.

Also Dragon dictations is a must have feature which includes the benefits of the world-renowned  dragon voice recognition by letting you to type handsfree by using the users voice and turns your voice in to text quickly and accurately with a simple press of the Dragon key. Available in 36 languages.

Swype had added Hinglish input support to its keyboard, last year, learning Hinglish words as users key them in.

Swype allows people to swipe their finger from one letter to the next to input text – or tap, speak or handwrite letters, numbers and symbols. Nuance had updated Swype to support what it calls Living Language, earlier this year. The keyboard continuously updates each user’s personal language model with the words and phrases they use the most – and with opt-in connected services they can also get the words and phrases trending around the world through crowd-sourcing  Swype can follow a user from one device to another with Backup and Sync.See our new beloved Swype in action

Download Swype from Google Play (Paid version for 1$)

Google Babel messenger
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The rumoured Google Babel messenger is sought to be real and more details about it have been found in a javascript file hosted on Gmail servers, The file which was for Google internal memo leaked to the outside world due to Google’s popular email platform called G-mail. Folks at Google Operating System blog were first to spot this.

As we can expect, Google is currently dogfooding Google Babel internally. Like Facebook is dogfooding its Android app for its developers ,Google is always dogfooding its products before use. Dogfooding means a technique in which compony forces its employees to thoroughly use their own products, rather than using other company’s similar products.

An image link showing a promo screenshot of Google Babel was also spotted by GOS, but has now been removed by Google (screenshot below).

Google Babel messenger
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The JS file reveals that Google Babel is the new messenger from Google (as we already knew, thanks to all the leaks and rumours).

The file and the above picture also details some of the new features that we can expect in Google Babel and are not present in the current Google Talk/ Chat.

  • Access the same conversation list from anywhere
  • A new, conversation-based UI
  • Advanced group conversations
  • Send pictures
  • Improved notifications across devices

As you can read in the screenshot of the JS file – “Babel is Google’s new messenger with clients for Android, iOS, Chrome, Google+ and Gmail” – Google is going to release clients for Android, Chrome and iOS and Babel will also be integrated in Google+ and Gmail.

So, all we have to do now is wait for the official debut at Google I/O 2013 ,But anyways devs and enthusiasts always have the backdoor access first :)

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Published on: April 8, 2013

 

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 Google may acquire WhatsApp for 1 billion Dollars

A new rumour has gushed out in this tech world,which states that Google is interested in buying the Whatsapp the world’s popular messenger service.

insider sources say that WhatsApp is in the negotiating phase over prices with Google. it states that the deal started four or five weeks ago and adds that WhatsApp is “playing hardball” and jockeying for a higher acquisition price, which currently is “close to” $1 billion right now.

Previously  TechCrunch had reported that Facebook wanted to buy Whatsapp. The report had quoted sources close to the matter.

However, in a statement to VentureBeat, WhatsApp had denied any such deal taking placed and the company’s business head Neeraj Arora said, “The TechCrunch article is a rumor and not factually accurate. We have no further information to share at the moment.”

Whatsapp has been one of the biggest success stories as far as messaging apps are concerned.  At the end of October  2011, the messaging service had announced that they now saw over 1 billion messages being sent in a single day.

Whatsapp blogpost sees nearly That is 41,666,667 messages an hour, 694,444 messages a minute, and 11,574 messages a second.. These are pretty big numbers as far as Google concerned.

In its current form, WhatsApp has no advertising. According to WhatApp’s blogpost, the reason for the absence of advertising is,

Remember, when advertising is involved you the user are the product.

At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our task of bringing rich, affordable, reliable messaging to every phone in the world. That’s our product and that’s our passion. Your data isn’t even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it.

If the acquisition is successful, WhatsApp will join the ranks of Google’s high-profile buyouts like YouTube and Android.

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Published on: April 5, 2013
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Facebook Home to only support Android 4.0+ devices

Facebook unveiled its new home-screen replacement app “Facebook Home” for Android on April 4th,But it cleverly  skipped a\n important detail in the main announcement and even in the press release. Apparently, Facebook Home is only compatible with phones powered by Ice Cream Sandwich and newer Android versions, Which was revealed in the Q&A session after the event.

If your phone has Gingerbread or below Android versions, which are still present on about 45% of total Android devices, you are not “that” lucky. Facebook is planning for the future and in the next one year or so, Gingerbread and older versions will be out of the smartphone OS variants list and we will have a majority of devices running on 4.0+

Set to be released in Google Play on April 12, Facebook Home will initially only support – HTC One X, One X+, Samsung Galaxy S III and Samsung Galaxy Note II, but S 4 and HTC One support will soon follow. Other Android devices with Android 4.0+ are expected to get Facebook Home support in the coming months.

Also no information regarding launch of Facebook Home for Android tablets is mentioned.However they are surely going to launch that tablet version soon after they get a hold of the Smartphone user-base.  Lets hope this FB homescreen will not annoy us anymore wit its targeted ads.

 

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Published on: March 31, 2013

we are eagerly waiting for Facebook’s April 4 Android announcement, turns out Facebook is going to unveil something called “Facebook Home.” its a Android home-screen experience that is expected to be unveiled .

Earlier this week, Facebook started sending out press invites to tech media in the United States leading up to rumours of a Facebook Smartphone. These rumours were soon quashed by both New York Times and Wall Street Journal, the publications emphasized that Facebook is not really going to announce a Facebook Phone, but will indeed show a phone made by HTC, that will come with a Facebook customised home-screen that puts the social giant right in front of consumer eyes.


Now, a tweet from credible evleaks and a report from 9To5Google suggest that this home-screen experience from Facebook might be dubbed as Facebook Home, which also lines-up nicely with the tag-line of the press invite – “Come see our new home on Android.”

The evleaks tweet does directly say anything and seems to be taken from support notification or help documentation or something like that. It however does suggest Facebook Home as the name of new home-screen experience.

There is obviously no way to authenticate these reports, but these do seem to make sense.

Earlier reports have also added that HTC isn’t going to the only manufacturer to launch Android phone with “Facebook Home,” but apparently the social giant is in talks with other companies too.

The Taiwanese manufacturer really want to get a hit and is ready to try all possible ideas.  Company’s previous Facebook oriented phones – HTC Chacha and HTC Salsa were not successful and there must be something unique in the new Facebook Home that is making HTC believe that Facebook specific customization can work on a smartphone.

Lets wait for april 4 and watch the big happennings after 4 days.

Google always had a sensitivity towards the low internet speed. They have designed their websites and apps with maximum optimization and made sure that it work faster than any other competitors. Look at Google.com or look at the Chrome browser for example. Chrome browser smashes all of their opponent in terms of speed. Smooth page rendering with the finest JavaScript engine.

No surprise if Google comes with a new invention, and now it comes with Android. They call it as  Data Compression.

As an end user you get the luxury of

  1. Compressed data = light wait data = speedy download
  2. Safety

Let’s us look little deep inside and understand how it works.

Google server performs an optimization on the data being passed, which reduce the page load time. When you enable Data compression, chrome browser opens a dedicated SPDY connection between your mobile phone and the dedicated Google server. When the proxy server receives a request from mobile, it initiate the request to the server on behalf of your mobile phone. And then receive the response, optimize it, and then send it back to the mobile device. Rendering of page and the execution of JavaScript will be done by the client then.

Now you will be thinking about the sensitive data like banking password and stuff like that getting passed through a proxy server. But Google says all secured connections (HTTPS) will routed directly from the mobile to the server, which means these https requests will not be passed through the proxy server, instead it will work as it is, meeting all the security requirement.

Chrome Beta on Android Gets Data Compression support.

 

The connection from mobile device to Google proxy server runs over SPDY, an optimized web protocol that is supported by Google chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera. By using SPDY, the proxy will be able to multiplex multiple request and response streams in parallel over a single TCP connection.

Many of the websites that are currently available in web are not optimized for the mobile devices, which causes delay in in loading the page. Google server does it for you when you use chrome beta with data compression. Over the matter of speed even safety is taken care by Google. The browser to proxy request uses SSL, which means it is encrypted between your device and the Google server. 

Feels like giving it a try , just install Google Chrome beta on your Android device, visit chrome://flags in a new tab, and then select “Enable Data Compression Proxy”.

Google claims that, in the internal testing they were able to reduce the data usage by 50% and speed up the page load time in cellular network.

If you wanted to see the amount of bandwidth saved , just open a new tab and type chrome://net-internals. You will get a screenshot like this.

You are in the era of Google webbing now. Happy browsing.

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